This Maitlis thing showcases a key dynamic of capitalist media: a complaint abt injustice can be safely expressed if encompassed within mainstream narrative & offering no meaningful systemic challenge; anyone challenging the system (ie Corbyn, albeit imperfectly) is a villain.

This narrative (those pointing out injustice, usually one person's perfidy, & getting it solved *within the confines of the system* are heroes; those who see injustice as a *systemic* problem requiring a systemic solution are irrational & evil) is OMNIPRESENT in capitalist media.

It is almost embarrassing how directly and mechanically it stems from the nature of the system and its requirements. One feels crude pointing it out.

The omnipresence of this message is, of course, partly how it reproduces itself. Those who write the TV shows & films recycle it as expressing salutary and constructive moral truisms in line with socially accepted moral common sense. It appears unexceptionable.

Its very unexceptionableness makes those who question it seem like the irrational villains in the stories that reproduce it, thus reinforcing it.

And its omnipresence causes the attitude to condition how people respond politically, especially with politics relentlessly and fatuously narrativised by the 'factual' wing of the same capitalist media.