Starmer’s YouTube Demands Hit A BBC-Shaped Wall; The Proof Is Brutal

Right, so Keir Starmer’s Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy, a woman who has just now decided to take herself and her department off of Twitter due because despite it being her brief, legislating its behaviour appears to be beyond her has gone to Parliament with a plan for “trusted news” online, because apparently Independent media outlets are a much safer target.What counts as trusted news though? Public service media. The mainstream outlets, legacy news. It must be highly visible. Easy to discover. The sort of news the government likes given a boost over those that actually hold them to account.But the moment a government starts saying certain news outlets should be made more visible on YouTube amongst other platforms, you have to ask who gets picked. You have to ask who gets pushed aside. You have to ask who decides which outlets count as trusted and which ones are apparently just grubby little peasants shouting into the digital ether.People did not wander away from mainstream outlets like the BBC because they couldn’t find it. The BBC is hardly hidden. ITV is not buried in a cave. Sky News has not been living under a tarp behind the bins.People went elsewhere because, on issue after issue, legacy media gave them reasons to go elsewhere.And now the government’s answer appears to be: well, perhaps the old outlets need better placement.Not better trust. Not better accountability. Better placement.