![]() ![]() Rowling, showing pictures of her three “mansions” – in the Scottish Highlands, in Edinburgh and in Tasmania – and mocking her for calling for the UK to welcome more migrants, while hosting none of them in her homes. Watson launches himself against such targets as the Harry Potter creator J. That’s likely a large underestimate of his total take: “Right Click” reports that Watson, who started broadcasting from his mother’s basement, now has a very big flat in London. He took to YouTube in 2011 and his earnings from his more than 1.4 million subscribers and close to 327 million video views are estimated at around $10,000 a month. One of the movement’s leaders is Paul Joseph Watson, 36, from the depressed former steel capital of Sheffield. In the UK, where most journalists’ default position is contempt for Trump, the new voices are fans, supporters and defenders and defenders of the right, and see the U.S. According to “Right Click,” they are part of “a huge new political movement” whose members consider traditional media to be the enemy and see themselves as warriors in a culture war. ![]() I say “revealed” because it was revealed to me, and no doubt to others in the mainstream media and their (often declining) audiences, while they are already part of the news and opinion ecology of many of the young. Perhaps most importantly, the new platforms bring voices which claim to have been suppressed in the traditional media because they are too far-right, too incorrect, too inappropriate, but which flourish online.Ī remarkable radio documentary – “Right Click” – aired on BBC Radio 4 this week, revealed a world of British activists whose already-large reach is growing, and who see themselves as the voices of the voiceless, the powers of the powerless. They bring voices from every part of the political and social spectrum in a fashion more intimate, direct and demotic than the mainstream – which is generally careful not to offend, to eschew profanity, to balance one view with another. Trump has more than 55 million followers on Twitter, which he uses as his personal channel to fire up Americans – a vastly sped-up version of FDR’s fireside chats during the Great Depression and World War Two.Īnd these new media channels now threaten to overcome that dominance. Still, the dominance of the old media is under threat from the new. You did the lord’s work.Social media 'bring voices from every part of the political and social spectrum in a fashion more intimate, direct and demotic than the mainstream,' writes John Lloyd. Wait until this poor kid grows up, realizes what you've done, and stuffs both of you dismembered into a freezer in the garage /1k3ITApFsFĬlearly James is level-headed, thoughtful and is definitely, 100% not a coke addict. Into the freezer you go, little badger… #INSTABLOCK Īnd here’s a real sweet one for the kids. It seems like I block so many because there are a lot of #liberals left out there I only #INSTABLOCK the truly rude and utterly stupid ones. Can you blame him for being butt-hurt when all the world is attacking him and his way of life? He’s really mellowed out and apparently, has found the block user function on Twitter. In his defense, James seems like a real nice guy to me. In addition to the cocaine addiction allegations, E! reports that “ In the past, AL has referred to Woods with such derogatory terms as ‘prick,’ ‘joke,’ ‘ridiculous,’ ‘scum’ and ‘clown-boy.’” Instead of taking the high road (or maybe he did take the HIGH road *wink*) by blocking his tormentors or filing a complaint with Twitter (there are no known reports of his having taken these steps), James decided to fight back The American Way with a multi-million dollar lawsuit. The defendant has since died and the details of the settlement were not made public.īack in 2015, James drew Abe List’s Twitter fire by posting many right-wing conservative views including birther related comments about Barack Obama. Two years ago, James slapped a 10 million dollar defamation complaint against an anonymous Tweeter (Twitter-er? Tweetster?) who went by the name of Abe List. Everybody’s least favorite uncle, James Woods, has recently settled a lawsuit he brought against a Twitter user for calling him a “ cocaine addict”. ![]()
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