Bernard isn't so much a character as a plot device. He's there as a means of explaining things to the audience, so if Bernard asks a question the writers are actually feeling that the audience need to know something which would otherwise go unsaid.
The show is presented to us through the would be eyes of Jim Hacker, but when it comes to actual working, Bernard acts as the middleman between the two opposing views except for the times when either they are in agreement or there are only 2 possible sides and poor Bernard is stuck in the middle. Sometimes though he brings the solution to the table that both the other two miss. This though, has got to be one of the funniest lines ever written both for political drama as well as political comedy. I don't think that the US has anything quite comparable in terms of being Satirical (because America doesn't understand sarcasm). So for an American comparative, we have to go to the West Wing. An excellent show, but lacking in comedy. I realise we do have a comparable character in the West WIng for the brilliant Bernard, Donna Moss. Young, Charming, Smart. always getting people unstuck from their issues and always ready with a bucket to bail water when the boat is sinking. And a bright future ahead with a lot to learn.
Humphrey at 2.41 you can see a little smile as he covers his mouth with his finger trying not to laugh and Bernard lowering his head after saying his lines. I wonder how many takes it took.
USA media is not quite the UK media, but to give you the best American analogies: 1. The Washington Post is read by people who think they run the country. 2. The New York Times is read by people who think they ought to run the country. 3. The Wall Street Journal is read by the people who actually do run the country. 4. The Boston Globe is read by people whose (grand) parents used to run the country. 5. The Miami Herald is read by people who are running another country or who used to run another country. 6. The San Francisco Chronicle is read by people who think the country ought to be run by another country. 7. The Epoch Times is read by people who think that it is.
I have to take exception on the WSJ. The people who actually have to make important policy decisions get reports prepared to order by the Rand corporation. But I still wish we had a page three in the national enquired like how the Sun has.
@@TheJthom9 Nope, it hasn't changed, because people haven't changed. It's still the same power hungry/vane/self obsessed/authoritarian apes trying to get other apes to vote for them. Only slight difference from ancient Greek times is the bureaucracy, which is always expanding to meet the needs of expanding bureaucracy(as in making meaningless easy office jobs for friends, family and old school mates to leech off of tax payers).
Yes Minister and Yes Prime Minister were two of the best comedy series ever made and the situation hasn't really changed much, there are still Sir Humphreys in our civil "service" now.
When I asked an American whats a good show to give me a handle on American politics they directed me to “West Wing”. Great show. When I was asked the same question about the British system I sent them to YM/YPM and they loved it and it’s a “sitcom”! It is spot on and even though it’s an 80’s show it is still amazingly prescient. Once you’ve finished YPM you qualify for “Thick of it” equally funny, if a tad darker (and swearier). “Veep” is the US take on it but I like this more cos you feel like Jim, Humpy and Bernard are a team whatever gets thrown at them.
Very accurate with regards to who reads these "papers". lol "The Sun" has a naked page 3 girl [in my day don't know about now as have not bought nor read a "newspaper" for over 20 years].
It did stop after years and for a while they had a page seven fella😂I have no idea now what's in any newspaper as I generally regard particularly tabloids as nothing more than comics and haven't read one for at least 10 years even though my wife has the daily mail (daily fail as I call it-just to keep our marriage interesting 😂😂) lies in print, lies on the TV we are all better off making it up ourselves👍
Nice one Connor 👍papers are just like TV news they are either blue or red here in the UK like the US, some will claim to be impartial /middle of the road but never are and if you didn't know the Sun newspaper is a working class conservative tabloid and years a ago had a topless model pictured allegedly giving her opinion of the current events, it was stopped being deemed sexist and cheesy but had gone on for years. Cheers mate✌️
Blue and red would be confusing to an American. Blue bloods - rightwing establishment, red revolution - leftwing socialists. But in US, blue donkey, red elephant.
I love Yes, Prime Minister... It's great, a bit before my time when it first aired, but caught it on a UK Gold or whatever channel and aye... It instantly became a fave of mine... One of them I'll binge watch when I'm as rough as a badgers arse on the couch after a night on the drink! :D
Funny but the joke was already old when this was broadcast. I still have it in print in an old mid-severties "Rag Mag". Surely it must be older the that too? Looking at where the writers, Jay and Lynn were educated, it probably came from the "Footlights" as well?
Their influence has declined massively and even the political landscape has changed somewhat (a slow but steady drift to the right, by all parties) but the papers still have some clout. The papers are divided into 2 types, the broadsheets, which tend to be the more serious and in depth newspapers and the tabloids, which tend to less in depth, more openly politically biased and more concerned with scandals and fear stories. All the major newspapers are national newspapers and all have a strong online presence nowadays. The broadsheets consist of 'The Times', which is right leaning and supportive of the Conservative Party, 'The Financial Times', also right leaning, mainly concerned with finance and business and also supportive of the Conservative Party, 'The Daily Telegraph', more right leaning and even more supportive of the Conservative Party, 'The Guardian', left leaning and usually supportive of the Labour Party but occasionally supports the Liberal Democrats instead and 'The I', which used to be a broadsheet and called 'The Independent' but which is now in tabloid form, though still considered a broadsheet due to it's content. It's centrist to left leaning, doesn't strongly support any political party but whose opinion pieces tend to align most often with either Labour or the Liberal Democrats, occasionally with the Conservatives or Greens. There are 5 main tabloids and all but one are pretty right-wing and heavily supportive of the Conservative Party. The exception is the Daily Mirror, which is left leaning and usually supportive of the Labour Party. The Daily Mail and The Daily Express are slightly more journalistic than the other tabloid and as stated, both are quite right-wing and strongly supportive of the Conservative Party. The Express is also known to be extremely pro royal, to the point of sycophancy, though all the tabloids tend to be pretty pro royal. The Sun and The Daily Star are pretty much trashy, lowest common denominator types of paper. Both have little news content are both pretty right-wing and both very supportive of the Conservative Party. The Daily Star is full of semi naked women, with tits all over the place and a big horse racing section. The Sun has the biggest circulation of any UK newspaper and used to be famous for it's page 3. This was where the entirety of page 3 would consist of a picture of a topless page 3 'model'. They abandoned this some time ago but it explains Bernard's comment. For one election cycle it did uneasily support Tony Blair's Labour Party but for the rest of it's history it's been heavily pro Conservative. The Daily Mail is so right-wing that in the 1930s it was supportive of the British Union of Fascists and would write glowin articles and editorials about Hitler and Mussolini. Politics, UK and worldwide, has shifted so far to the right over the last 40 years, that they're now, laughingly, often referred to as right of centre! :) There used to be another tabloid, referred to in this clip, 'The Morning Star'. This was a communist newspaper, which strongly supported the British Communist Party, which actually had MPs as late as the 1950s. It's circulation slowly declined, from the 80s onwards. I'm not sure if it even exists anymore. I haven't seen one on sale for decades. Hacker referred to it as the newspaper read by people who want the country to be run by another country. A tad unfair but indicative of the Cold War rhetoric of the time. A rhetoric that appears to be back in fashion nowadays...
@@Jimmy_Jones - I have now unsubscribed because of the seeing so many repeats. Sadly, spamming videos over and over again is a very lazy way to get views and subscribers, not to mention it goes against UA-cam's community guidelines.
@@stewedfishproductions7959 I'm not subscribed to either which makes it even harder to work out if I have watched them. I haven't watched a video in ages.
@@stewedfishproductions7959 Same here, unsubscribed. The constant "i'm not going to constantly talk through it" then does. As well as the repeats does my head in. Plus, he's nearly 30 and lives in his parents basement by the looks of it, and is a know all conservative.
I thought the problem was that the original video reactions were from copy write sources. Therefore he had to delete them and is now watching videos that won’t get him into trouble
Politics does change. More true than you imagine. It's derived from a Greek word, polis,meaning city. People who served the city where Police. People who administerd the city where Politicians. The people where called the Demos and so rule, Kratos, by the Demos was Democracy.
Mirror- popular working class/ Guardian- leftwing establishment (e.g. BBC executives)/ Times- traditionally conservative establishment (but now gone rather left)/ Mail- popular conservative /Financial Times- businessmen /Morning Star- Communist /Telegraph- traditional conservative
If you get a copy of the Sun, there is nothing that you can call News in that newspaper, but the third page is particularly useless. I do not know if they still have it, but there was a photograph of a girl with no clothes on. There was nothing to read in the Sun, Mirror or Star, you could read it cover to cover, in under five minutes. The Morning Star was supposed to be a Communist party newspaper, which is why they have said that the readers of it think that Britain should be run by another country. Most of the journalists on the Daily Mail are ladies, so that is why it was said that it is the wives of the people who run the country, who read that one. That, the Times, and the Telegraph are the most accurate, where as the Guardian has the reputation of being full of spelling mistakes. I used to like The Times myself, but according to this, I should have been reading the Telegraph. According to the farmer, in the Vicar of Dibley, I like the Times, so much softer on the Bum.
Your conclusion is one my father has espoused for the last few decades; if you want to know how the government works, watch Yes Minister/Yes Prime Minister (not the remake).
I'm Australian, so I'm not familiar with the newspapers named here myself. This was irrelevant. It's not hard to fill in the blanks. We say it so much about this show and it's so true: it crosses national borders and transcends time periods. It's about universal truths which we can all relate to and which we might as well laugh about. It sure beats crying about them, however tempted we might sometimes be...
Others responded already but here goes. At the time of the tv series the Times was falling into the hands of Rupert Murdoch. There was opposition to this but that bastion of free enterprise herself had a meeting with Murdoch and overruled the objections. That gave Murdoch the base to become what he is now. In the old days the Times was respected. The gag was that when the butler announces to the lord of the manner that the press have arrived for some reason it is ‘the press are here, and a gentleman from the Times.’ Under Murdoch’s ownership it became even more right wing and hewed to the new Establishment rather than the older. Murdoch also covered both bases by buying the Sun. A shamelessly populist tabloid. The least offensive aspect was its famous page 3. Many of the models that graced its pages became household names. Samantha Fox became a pop star, and Linda Lusardi went on to become a serious actress. The price of being in cahoots with the establishment is that it is reviled. It gleefully reported and embellished the lies that clouded the Hilsborough disaster and as a consequence it is effectively banned in Liverpool and the surrounding area. Piers Morgan got his start there. That should tell you all you need to know. The Morning Star is an anachronism. It is the only national newspaper still in print, (though the mind boggles as to its circulation), that is avowedly communist. I think flicking through its pages would give MTG and Alex Jones an embolism. The Mirror was left-wing, but stolidly working class. The Guardian appealed to the professional/intellectual/liberal. The Financial Times is still the Financial services White dwarf. The Daily, and Sunday Telegraph are nakedly elitist. These days it’s difficult to distinguish between their editorials and government policy. Our out-going Prime Minister used to write for them and probably will again once he’s gone. Their partner in crime is the Daily Mail. It and its editors are the self-appointed moral guardians and shrouded in hypocrisy. It simultaneously panders to the establishment and populist sentiment. In the UK its influence has been as malignant as Fox News in the USA. The News of the World, (not mentioned), was a very powerful Sunday scandal sheet. It favoured unveiling scandals. Quelle supris it was another Murdoch title but came nearest to bringing him down when the phone hacking scandal was laid at his door step. The Sunday Times was the sister paper of the Times. Their famed Insight Team was a squad of journalists that unmasked several scandals in the 1960s and 1970s. They were eventually disbanded.
The papers were far too stuffy before Murdoch bought the Times. They so stale the industry was eating it self up slowly from the inside. What he brought into the UK press was new idea and clout. In doing so he made himself a natural target of the left. Writing Murdoch buying Times in a tone of loss now is revisionist and trivialises our hindsight. That's my impression after watching the play Ink by James Graham.
Separate from the vid being reacted to, have you changed camera or moved your camera position? Your face seems a bit camera distorted in this one. Anyone else noticed?
Famous Sun headlines: "Gotcha" - Sinking of the Belgrano during the Falklands War. "The Truth" - Coverage of the Hillsborough Disaster. "Straight Sex Cannot Give You AIDS - Official" - Do you really need context for this?
Essentially, most of our media, in the UK, is owned by billionaires with their own political agendas three of their number supported Brexit hence brexit became a fact. The Barclay brothers (one died recenty) own the Telegraph; Murdoch owns the Times and the Sun (the Sun is running at a loss but is influential as a political tool); the Daily Mail is the best selling UK newspaper but like the previous two (Telegraph & Sun) is very right-wing but Viscount Rothermere who owns the paper isn't and doesn't support Brexit but he knows his readership and he employs people accordingly that edit the paper to pander to their reader's prejudices - he's in newspapers to make money afterall. The other newspapers mentioned in the clip still exist and are still much the same as described regardless of who owns them.
Connor old mate I'd get to the Doctors and get a memory check! you are repeating a lot of video's these days! although I've seen this a million times (slight exaggeration) and get's me every time!
If he uses the better quality BBC version, it often gets taken down due to copyright infringement. That's probably why some of his videos have been reacted upon two or more times?
3:22. Not quite true. Politics does change, but glacially slowly. Think continental drift...it takes decades to notice differences. In the 19th century, the Democrats were the slaveowners who founded the KKK after losing the Civil War. A century later, they passed the Civil Right Acts & the Voting Rights Act, and they're the standard bearers of affirmative action. In the '50s, Eisenhower was a Republican president and a war hero from fighting Hitler and the Nazi fascists, who was a strong force for funding the building of infrastructure. Now the Republicans are against Antifa (anti-fascists) and wear swastikas at their rallies while flying Confederate flags. Decades from now, who knows what those political parties will be like, or whether they'll exist at all?
Bernard isn't so much a character as a plot device. He's there as a means of explaining things to the audience, so if Bernard asks a question the writers are actually feeling that the audience need to know something which would otherwise go unsaid.
The show is presented to us through the would be eyes of Jim Hacker, but when it comes to actual working, Bernard acts as the middleman between the two opposing views except for the times when either they are in agreement or there are only 2 possible sides and poor Bernard is stuck in the middle.
Sometimes though he brings the solution to the table that both the other two miss. This though, has got to be one of the funniest lines ever written both for political drama as well as political comedy.
I don't think that the US has anything quite comparable in terms of being Satirical (because America doesn't understand sarcasm). So for an American comparative, we have to go to the West Wing. An excellent show, but lacking in comedy. I realise we do have a comparable character in the West WIng for the brilliant Bernard, Donna Moss.
Young, Charming, Smart. always getting people unstuck from their issues and always ready with a bucket to bail water when the boat is sinking. And a bright future ahead with a lot to learn.
Humphrey at 2.41 you can see a little smile as he covers his mouth with his finger trying not to laugh and Bernard lowering his head after saying his lines. I wonder how many takes it took.
You do know that Humphrey plays your favorite king George the 3rd..😁
Daily Mirror - left-wing working-class
The Guardian - left-wing educated middle-class
The Times - centre-right educated middle-class
Daily Mail - right-wing uneducated middle-class
Financial Times - property-owning middle-class
Morning Star - far-left
Daily Telegraph - right-wing educated middle-class
The Sun - right-wing working-class
Guardian reader myself but the SUN had a great page!
the times is now centre left, daily mail read by people who have lived a long life, not uneducated.
The Daily Mail is essential Fox "News" fixed on paper.
I know that an I'm not even British...
USA media is not quite the UK media, but to give you the best American analogies:
1. The Washington Post is read by people who think they run the country.
2. The New York Times is read by people who think they ought to run the country.
3. The Wall Street Journal is read by the people who actually do run the country.
4. The Boston Globe is read by people whose (grand) parents used to run the country.
5. The Miami Herald is read by people who are running another country or who used to run another country.
6. The San Francisco Chronicle is read by people who think the country ought to be run by another country.
7. The Epoch Times is read by people who think that it is.
I have to take exception on the WSJ. The people who actually have to make important policy decisions get reports prepared to order by the Rand corporation.
But I still wish we had a page three in the national enquired like how the Sun has.
You only have to read some of the literature from ancient Athens to realise that politics never changes...
No. Western politics has not changed since then, because it came from Classical Athens
@@TheJthom9 Nope, it hasn't changed, because people haven't changed. It's still the same power hungry/vane/self obsessed/authoritarian apes trying to get other apes to vote for them. Only slight difference from ancient Greek times is the bureaucracy, which is always expanding to meet the needs of expanding bureaucracy(as in making meaningless easy office jobs for friends, family and old school mates to leech off of tax payers).
Yes Minister and Yes Prime Minister were two of the best comedy series ever made and the situation hasn't really changed much, there are still Sir Humphreys in our civil "service" now.
Yeah, yeah, yeah; The issues then are the same as now. Jay and Lynn were spot on. Blah, blah, blah.
You have seen this before, but it never gets old.
When I asked an American whats a good show to give me a handle on American politics they directed me to “West Wing”. Great show. When I was asked the same question about the British system I sent them to YM/YPM and they loved it and it’s a “sitcom”! It is spot on and even though it’s an 80’s show it is still amazingly prescient. Once you’ve finished YPM you qualify for “Thick of it” equally funny, if a tad darker (and swearier). “Veep” is the US take on it but I like this more cos you feel like Jim, Humpy and Bernard are a team whatever gets thrown at them.
Also shows the difference between Americans and the British. "West Wing" is more about what Americans wished their politics was like.
this show is genius and still totally relevant today
"Hope you're all doing well, tits up, chin up." 😂😂
Very accurate with regards to who reads these "papers". lol
"The Sun" has a naked page 3 girl [in my day don't know about now as have not bought nor read a "newspaper" for over 20 years].
I think that had stopped doing it for a time and then they brought it back. Don't know the reasons or the timing for either event.
It did stop after years and for a while they had a page seven fella😂I have no idea now what's in any newspaper as I generally regard particularly tabloids as nothing more than comics and haven't read one for at least 10 years even though my wife has the daily mail (daily fail as I call it-just to keep our marriage interesting 😂😂) lies in print, lies on the TV we are all better off making it up ourselves👍
It mustve been more than 5 years since they stopped printing page 3. I remember someone talking about it on breakfast tv.
No she wasn't naked, she never showed the bottom half just topless.
Nice one Connor 👍papers are just like TV news they are either blue or red here in the UK like the US, some will claim to be impartial /middle of the road but never are and if you didn't know the Sun newspaper is a working class conservative tabloid and years a ago had a topless model pictured allegedly giving her opinion of the current events, it was stopped being deemed sexist and cheesy but had gone on for years. Cheers mate✌️
Blue and red would be confusing to an American. Blue bloods - rightwing establishment, red revolution - leftwing socialists.
But in US, blue donkey, red elephant.
I love Yes, Prime Minister... It's great, a bit before my time when it first aired, but caught it on a UK Gold or whatever channel and aye... It instantly became a fave of mine... One of them I'll binge watch when I'm as rough as a badgers arse on the couch after a night on the drink! :D
Burn-it! He’s back again, poor old Burn-it.
The best take i have ever heard is that politics is a dishonest way of taking something from someone else without actually breaking the law!
The Sun newspaper used to have a page three girl showing all and an easy crossword. Politically a bit of a floater.
The Sun reference is about the old days when we had 'Page 3' girls in some newspapers, 20-something year old ladies with their charlies on display.
we still do
Funny but the joke was already old when this was broadcast. I still have it in print in an old mid-severties "Rag Mag". Surely it must be older the that too? Looking at where the writers, Jay and Lynn were educated, it probably came from the "Footlights" as well?
Try reviewing sir Humphrey gets locked out, very funny
Daily mail 1 of Murdoch papers crook
Their influence has declined massively and even the political landscape has changed somewhat (a slow but steady drift to the right, by all parties) but the papers still have some clout. The papers are divided into 2 types, the broadsheets, which tend to be the more serious and in depth newspapers and the tabloids, which tend to less in depth, more openly politically biased and more concerned with scandals and fear stories. All the major newspapers are national newspapers and all have a strong online presence nowadays.
The broadsheets consist of 'The Times', which is right leaning and supportive of the Conservative Party, 'The Financial Times', also right leaning, mainly concerned with finance and business and also supportive of the Conservative Party, 'The Daily Telegraph', more right leaning and even more supportive of the Conservative Party, 'The Guardian', left leaning and usually supportive of the Labour Party but occasionally supports the Liberal Democrats instead and 'The I', which used to be a broadsheet and called 'The Independent' but which is now in tabloid form, though still considered a broadsheet due to it's content. It's centrist to left leaning, doesn't strongly support any political party but whose opinion pieces tend to align most often with either Labour or the Liberal Democrats, occasionally with the Conservatives or Greens.
There are 5 main tabloids and all but one are pretty right-wing and heavily supportive of the Conservative Party. The exception is the Daily Mirror, which is left leaning and usually supportive of the Labour Party. The Daily Mail and The Daily Express are slightly more journalistic than the other tabloid and as stated, both are quite right-wing and strongly supportive of the Conservative Party. The Express is also known to be extremely pro royal, to the point of sycophancy, though all the tabloids tend to be pretty pro royal. The Sun and The Daily Star are pretty much trashy, lowest common denominator types of paper. Both have little news content are both pretty right-wing and both very supportive of the Conservative Party. The Daily Star is full of semi naked women, with tits all over the place and a big horse racing section. The Sun has the biggest circulation of any UK newspaper and used to be famous for it's page 3. This was where the entirety of page 3 would consist of a picture of a topless page 3 'model'. They abandoned this some time ago but it explains Bernard's comment. For one election cycle it did uneasily support Tony Blair's Labour Party but for the rest of it's history it's been heavily pro Conservative. The Daily Mail is so right-wing that in the 1930s it was supportive of the British Union of Fascists and would write glowin articles and editorials about Hitler and Mussolini. Politics, UK and worldwide, has shifted so far to the right over the last 40 years, that they're now, laughingly, often referred to as right of centre! :)
There used to be another tabloid, referred to in this clip, 'The Morning Star'. This was a communist newspaper, which strongly supported the British Communist Party, which actually had MPs as late as the 1950s. It's circulation slowly declined, from the 80s onwards. I'm not sure if it even exists anymore. I haven't seen one on sale for decades. Hacker referred to it as the newspaper read by people who want the country to be run by another country. A tad unfair but indicative of the Cold War rhetoric of the time. A rhetoric that appears to be back in fashion nowadays...
drift to the right ??????
I’m impressed how surprised he can be third time round 😂. Though they are good to rewatch
I hate that there are repeats posted across both of his channels.
@@Jimmy_Jones - I have now unsubscribed because of the seeing so many repeats. Sadly, spamming videos over and over again is a very lazy way to get views and subscribers, not to mention it goes against UA-cam's community guidelines.
@@stewedfishproductions7959 I'm not subscribed to either which makes it even harder to work out if I have watched them. I haven't watched a video in ages.
@@stewedfishproductions7959 Same here, unsubscribed. The constant "i'm not going to constantly talk through it" then does. As well as the repeats does my head in.
Plus, he's nearly 30 and lives in his parents basement by the looks of it, and is a know all conservative.
I thought the problem was that the original video reactions were from copy write sources. Therefore he had to delete them and is now watching videos that won’t get him into trouble
Hacker bested Humphrey in this one.
The sun joke is because of something called page 3 where there would be a topless woman on the third page of every publication
Politics does change. More true than you imagine.
It's derived from a Greek word, polis,meaning city.
People who served the city where Police.
People who administerd the city where Politicians.
The people where called the Demos and so rule, Kratos, by the Demos was Democracy.
Mirror- popular working class/ Guardian- leftwing establishment (e.g. BBC executives)/ Times- traditionally conservative establishment (but now gone rather left)/ Mail- popular conservative /Financial Times- businessmen /Morning Star- Communist /Telegraph- traditional conservative
Not forgetting the Sun which had topless models on page 3
How right wing do you have to be to think BBC executives and the times are left wing? 🤣🤣🤣
@@RenaissanceEarCandy they're likely a Telegraph reader ;-)
@@RenaissanceEarCandy Not very, especially in a humorous context.
Yes except mirror is lefty working class, sun is popular working class
If you get a copy of the Sun, there is nothing that you can call News in that newspaper, but the third page is particularly useless. I do not know if they still have it, but there was a photograph of a girl with no clothes on.
There was nothing to read in the Sun, Mirror or Star, you could read it cover to cover, in under five minutes. The Morning Star was supposed to be a Communist party newspaper, which is why they have said that the readers of it think that Britain should be run by another country.
Most of the journalists on the Daily Mail are ladies, so that is why it was said that it is the wives of the people who run the country, who read that one. That, the Times, and the Telegraph are the most accurate, where as the Guardian has the reputation of being full of spelling mistakes.
I used to like The Times myself, but according to this, I should have been reading the Telegraph.
According to the farmer, in the Vicar of Dibley, I like the Times, so much softer on the Bum.
Bernard for the win
Usually got the best punchlines too😂
Your conclusion is one my father has espoused for the last few decades; if you want to know how the government works, watch Yes Minister/Yes Prime Minister (not the remake).
It's about time you learned about *The Great Emu War* my man. Everyone keep haunting him about it till he does 👻
As you say politics doesn't change, you can almost hear some of what they say repeated almost word for word by today's politicians
I'm Australian, so I'm not familiar with the newspapers named here myself.
This was irrelevant. It's not hard to fill in the blanks. We say it so much about this show and it's so true: it crosses national borders and transcends time periods. It's about universal truths which we can all relate to and which we might as well laugh about. It sure beats crying about them, however tempted we might sometimes be...
Who is Burnit? Does Bernard know him?
Others responded already but here goes. At the time of the tv series the Times was falling into the hands of Rupert Murdoch. There was opposition to this but that bastion of free enterprise herself had a meeting with Murdoch and overruled the objections. That gave Murdoch the base to become what he is now. In the old days the Times was respected. The gag was that when the butler announces to the lord of the manner that the press have arrived for some reason it is ‘the press are here, and a gentleman from the Times.’
Under Murdoch’s ownership it became even more right wing and hewed to the new Establishment rather than the older. Murdoch also covered both bases by buying the Sun. A shamelessly populist tabloid. The least offensive aspect was its famous page 3. Many of the models that graced its pages became household names. Samantha Fox became a pop star, and Linda Lusardi went on to become a serious actress. The price of being in cahoots with the establishment is that it is reviled. It gleefully reported and embellished the lies that clouded the Hilsborough disaster and as a consequence it is effectively banned in Liverpool and the surrounding area. Piers Morgan got his start there. That should tell you all you need to know. The Morning Star is an anachronism. It is the only national newspaper still in print, (though the mind boggles as to its circulation), that is avowedly communist. I think flicking through its pages would give MTG and Alex Jones an embolism. The Mirror was left-wing, but stolidly working class. The Guardian appealed to the professional/intellectual/liberal. The Financial Times is still the Financial services White dwarf. The Daily, and Sunday Telegraph are nakedly elitist. These days it’s difficult to distinguish between their editorials and government policy. Our out-going Prime Minister used to write for them and probably will again once he’s gone. Their partner in crime is the Daily Mail. It and its editors are the self-appointed moral guardians and shrouded in hypocrisy. It simultaneously panders to the establishment and populist sentiment. In the UK its influence has been as malignant as Fox News in the USA.
The News of the World, (not mentioned), was a very powerful Sunday scandal sheet. It favoured unveiling scandals. Quelle supris it was another Murdoch title but came nearest to bringing him down when the phone hacking scandal was laid at his door step. The Sunday Times was the sister paper of the Times. Their famed Insight Team was a squad of journalists that unmasked several scandals in the 1960s and 1970s. They were eventually disbanded.
The papers were far too stuffy before Murdoch bought the Times. They so stale the industry was eating it self up slowly from the inside. What he brought into the UK press was new idea and clout. In doing so he made himself a natural target of the left.
Writing Murdoch buying Times in a tone of loss now is revisionist and trivialises our hindsight. That's my impression after watching the play Ink by James Graham.
they way your pronounce Bernard , there is an "r" at the the end, is that an American thing?
Connor must have been told this a thousand times by hundreds? I've given up!
Try Alan b stard 👍🏻❤️🏴🇬🇧
Must be running out of videos to react to, not the first time he's seen this and probably not the last, either that or his memorys failing 😉
Separate from the vid being reacted to, have you changed camera or moved your camera position? Your face seems a bit camera distorted in this one. Anyone else noticed?
It's impressive that despite the Sun punchline and the fact that the writers were very right wing, it's the Telegraph that gets the burn here.
Hi Connor ✋
I don't think it matters if you understand who reads the papers.
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Famous Sun headlines:
"Gotcha" - Sinking of the Belgrano during the Falklands War.
"The Truth" - Coverage of the Hillsborough Disaster.
"Straight Sex Cannot Give You AIDS - Official" - Do you really need context for this?
Essentially, most of our media, in the UK, is owned by billionaires with their own political agendas three of their number supported Brexit hence brexit became a fact. The Barclay brothers (one died recenty) own the Telegraph; Murdoch owns the Times and the Sun (the Sun is running at a loss but is influential as a political tool); the Daily Mail is the best selling UK newspaper but like the previous two (Telegraph & Sun) is very right-wing but Viscount Rothermere who owns the paper isn't and doesn't support Brexit but he knows his readership and he employs people accordingly that edit the paper to pander to their reader's prejudices - he's in newspapers to make money afterall. The other newspapers mentioned in the clip still exist and are still much the same as described regardless of who owns them.
Connor old mate I'd get to the Doctors and get a memory check! you are repeating a lot of video's these days! although I've seen this a million times (slight exaggeration) and get's me every time!
we are good at taking the pisds out of areselfs.you spams will never understand
To be fair, I would be surprised if many Brits understand what your insinuating? Although I do tend to agree.
Wasn't it the Daily Mail who swooned over the Nazis in the 1930s? ^oo^
Very poor quality of the reaction video.
Complain to the people that uploaded it
If he uses the better quality BBC version, it often gets taken down due to copyright infringement. That's probably why some of his videos have been reacted upon two or more times?
3:22. Not quite true. Politics does change, but glacially slowly. Think continental drift...it takes decades to notice differences. In the 19th century, the Democrats were the slaveowners who founded the KKK after losing the Civil War. A century later, they passed the Civil Right Acts & the Voting Rights Act, and they're the standard bearers of affirmative action. In the '50s, Eisenhower was a Republican president and a war hero from fighting Hitler and the Nazi fascists, who was a strong force for funding the building of infrastructure. Now the Republicans are against Antifa (anti-fascists) and wear swastikas at their rallies while flying Confederate flags. Decades from now, who knows what those political parties will be like, or whether they'll exist at all?