Summary:
Jeremy Corbyn has told grassroots supporters that it was necessary for Labour to use social media to communicate with the public because rightwing media were censoring political debate in an unprecedented assault on the party. Speaking at the Momentum Latino launch, he said: “We have a party under attack from much of the media in this country like it has never been under attack before. How do we reach out to people? We reach out because we come together at events like this. We reach out through social media in a massive way. And so I find that social media has a very important role to play in this. [...] It is a way of reaching past the censorship of the rightwing media in this country that has so constrained political debate for so long."
Key data/statistical information:
- "When in one week, we can get one to 2 million people watching online a message we have been able to deliver at maybe a meeting like this or perhaps one that is even bigger somewhere else"
- Despite the analysis of a leading academic suggesting Labour could be on course for its worst results in 35 years, Corbyn said his party was “not going to lose seats; we are looking to gain seats where we can” in the elections for local councils, regional assemblies and mayoralties.
What's my view?
From a Marxist perspective, this shows that censoring still happens as the labour party complains that the rightwing media are censoring political debates. The elite people are still censoring media which shows that the audience are enjoying an illusion of autonomy because we only see the media chosen by the elites. However, from a Pluralist perspective, we can say that new and digital media has given the audience the ability to overcome this because, as shown in this situation, social media has abled the labour party to communicate with the public.
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