Media

Daniel Murray: Dilemma over online news regulation will allow divisive tribalism to grow

Regulators are having to grapple with a blurring of the lines between politics and traditional media – but an even bigger challenge exists online

Jacob Rees-Mogg, the British Conservative Party MP, has been hosting a nightly show on GB News for a year now, and he is just one example of a blurring of the line between politics and news by the right-wing station

As the British and Irish governments locked horns over migration policy last week, the Irish public were given a brief glimpse into a growing aberration in the British media landscape, courtesy of GB News and Jacob Rees-Mogg.

Positioned like a newsreader as he opened his ‘State of the Nation’ show on Monday night, Rees-Mogg, the British Conservative Party MP, delivered a polemic on the row over asylum seekers travelling on to Ireland from the UK. ...