Jon Snow Slams Fake News

Jon Snow, The Channel 4 News presenter, was interviewed by Nick Robinson in a very chummy interlude this morning. In his MacTaggart Lecture at the Edinburgh International Television Festival, Snow had lambasted Facebook for prioritising fakery on a massive scale.  In his interview, Snow complained that people could not be in charge of tower blocks unless they had actually lived in them, that the people who voted for Donald Trump were hopelessly misguided and victims of their own background and that those who voted for Brexit probably did so because they had been peddled some fakery about it being a way out of austerity.  All this could be solved by replacing 80% of senior media people with those from more appropriate backgrounds.  Above all, Snow trumpeted, integrity was vital and that whatever one’s personal views, it was his duty to report impartially.  Good grief, could this be the same Jon Snow raving “***k the Tories” at Glastonbury (whilst reminding his audience that he was supposed to be impartial)?