Is social media shaping world politics and is populist agenda now more important than democrasy?

rancidpunk

I'll miss Ian Dale, won't really catch his new slot, but not sure how well suited Eddie Mair will be. I'll probably catch him tomorrow. He could've replaced Ferrari, who hasn't even got a voice for radio.

Sonic67

Ferrari is the reason why I've dumped R5 in the mornings. Then JOB is on with an endless monologue of **** and I switch over.

raduv1

Yup Seb would agree on that front .

krish

On before Ferrari from 4-7am is Steve Allen, and his endless monologue is literally just that, no callers, no guests, just a very camp, often bitchy, stream of consciousness.

Sonic67

Yeah I've heard him, usually from 6 til 7.

rancidpunk

Yea, I've caught the last hour of him several times. How on earth he's won awards I don't know.

krish

^^^ He's LBC's Annie Nightingale ... been associated with LBC and its iterations for years, they can't get rid now, just stick him in non-prime weekday and Sunday slots and leave him to it.

Cliff

Well at least Steve Allen, can be amusing and does what he does very well. Also has lots of friends and contacts in showbiz. At that time of the morning, it is probably better to keep boring insomniacs off the air.
JOBs monologue and his format is so patronising. It always starts with a few thoughts that he has had. He then eulogises for ever and asks us to call and help him out. Then he pretends that together we can explore and get through the issue, ending in agreement. Of course, we have to agree with him. Anyway who dares to disagree is never listened to but usually subject to ridicule, ready for the next caller to will take the JOB line in an cosy way and steer the program direction back on track.

  As for his remain/ anti Brexit stance he has jumped the shark! Should have taken a longer holiday- like a year?

raduv1

Well I'd say there definatly is a problem when the CEO of Twitter comes out with this .

https://www.livemint.com/Politics/l...ed-for-weaponised-social-media-manipulat.html

Twitter was “unprepared and ill-equipped” for the vast campaigns of manipulation that affected social media in the past few years, chief executive Jack Dorsey told lawmakers on Wednesday.

Dorsey, appearing before a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on foreign influence campaigns on social media, said the messaging service was set up to function as a “public square” but unable to deal with “abuse, harassment, troll armies, propaganda through bots.”

“We aren’t proud of how that free and open exchange has been weaponised and used to distract and divide people, and our nation,” he told senators. “We found ourselves unprepared and ill-equipped for the immensity of the problems we’ve acknowledged.”

Sonic67

Compare and contrast.

South Yorkshire police want people reporting non hate incidents.

South Yorkshire Police mocked for urging residents to report 'non-crime hate incidents'

South Yorkshire Police have been mocked online after urging residents to report one another for 'non-crime hate incidents'. The tweet was sent from the force's official Twitter account on Monday, September 10 and has since been retweeted and commented on hundreds of times on the social media account.

Police haven't time to deal with burglaries as they are busy with Facebook rows.

Police 'incredibly frustrated' at being sent to Facebook rows rather than burglaries

Common sense policing has "gone out of the window" with officers forced to spend their time intervening in trivial social media disputes rather than attending burglaries and other serious crimes, the new head of the Police Federation has said.

John Apter, who represents 120,000 rank and file officers across England and Wales, said his members were "incredibly frustrated" because they felt were no longer able to do the job they had signed up to do.