The media thought they had Nigel Farage corneredβ€”until he whipped out a time machine and dragged them back to their own murky past. Now journalists across the UK are suddenly β€œrealising” they may have misfired by targeting him on racism, only to be hit with a boomerang of their own 1970s and 80s broadcast sins. Oops. πŸ“ΌπŸ™ƒ

Farage is fighting back hard, and the pressβ€”usually fluent in outrageβ€”are looking unusually sweaty as they scramble to explain away decades of programming that treated racism like punchline material.

πŸ”„ When the Hunters Become the Haunted

One minute, the media’s confidently grilling Farage on alleged racist behaviour from his school days. The next, he’s waving receipts from the BBC’s golden era of β€œlaugh-track bigotry,” reminding everyone that entire TV schedules once revolved around characters whose full-time job was being offensively quotable. πŸŽ€πŸ‘΄πŸš¬

And now?

Some outlets seem to be backpedalling faster than a minister caught lying on breakfast TV. They’re not exactly apologisingβ€”but they are suddenly tiptoeing, reframing, β€œcontextualising,” and generally performing Olympic-level linguistic gymnastics to avoid admitting:

β€œYeah… we might’ve overplayed that hand.” πŸ€Έβ€β™‚οΈπŸ—žοΈ

It’s a deliciously chaotic plot twist: the media trying to shame Farage over the past, only to rediscover their own skeletons tap-dancing in full colour on national television. Alf Garnett must be somewhere cackling. πŸ“ΊπŸ’€

πŸ”₯ Challenges πŸ”₯

Why does the media only remember its conscience after getting dragged by the very people they’re trying to expose? Why do these cycles of outrage always boomerang back to the broadcaster’s own dusty archives? Drop your hottest take, your spiciest roast, or your most savage bit of commentary in the blog commentsβ€”not just on Facebook. πŸ’¬πŸ”₯

πŸ‘‡ Comment, like, shareβ€”and don’t hold back. Stir the conversation like it’s 1981 and the TV regulator’s asleep.

The best comments will be featured in the next issue of the magazine. πŸ“βœ¨

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