The most striking thing about this clip is the wide shot where it almost looks like the journo is about to point out that these issues are national ones, decided in Westminster, and Labour haven& #39;t been in power for 11 years, but then he doesn& #39;t. Over the last while, especially 1/ https://twitter.com/resophonick/status/1391288617449005058">https://twitter.com/resophoni...

When reading pieces where writers or journos are speaking to folks here about their reasons for rioting, or more broadly their views on things like the protocol, etc etc, and people say very inflammatory or inaccurate things, and it just gets reported verbatim. I know that 2/

Reporting people& #39;s thoughts and concerns is a valid enterprise, but then the question becomes; what& #39;s the purpose of the piece? Because it can stray very close to propaganda unless there is either a challenge or some kind of Louis Theroux-esque long game where the subjects 3/

Are slowly led to the point where they reveal their deepest thoughts or trip themselves up or whatever. This isn& #39;t that. It rarely is that. And there& #39;s rarely an attempt to set them in context with analysis. Taken at face value, the lesson here is that Labour are losing badly 4/

Because they& #39;ve made a mess of local services. But they& #39;re not in government, so that would be the wrong lesson to learn. At some stage we can& #39;t all just throw up our hands and go "well, people think that so https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🤷‍♂️" title="Achselzuckender Mann" aria-label="Emoji: Achselzuckender Mann"> that& #39;s that". 5/5