How Not to Cover Elections (Democracy Relies on Reliable, Complete Information)

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jul 28, 2026

Yesterday: Sad State of Troll-Feeding British Media (Establishment Channels Promoting Total Idiots)

This morning we saw https://electionquiz.co.uk coming up with the headline: "Who Should I Vote For Clacton By Election? BinFace v Farage?"

As noted above, it's giving people a false choice between two types of trash. It overlooks several very sane and qualified, credible candidates.

4 hours ago Doncaster Free Press covered the election as follows:

Doncaster's Mr Fishfinger not one of 33 candidates standing against Nigel Farage

So it refers to someone who is NOT running - someone who is basically a satire on two legs.

What is happening to the media? "Full list of candidates" is only at the very bottom of this article.

Can't the media do better than that? Misinformed voters are a recipe for disaster. Some publishers did a better job, but they're lost in a sea of clickbait. █

binface and farage are both distractions. Farage has refused to debate the other candidates. There are some interesting candidates, although too many and the vote will get split. One of note is a fellow ICT expert, Daniel Pocock who has been fighting the good fight for many years now

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