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TV Industry Must Accept Some Responsibility For Its Role In UK Riots, Says Carol Vorderman
Carol Vorderman has talked UK riots, working classes and snobbery in the TV industry at the Edinburgh TV Festival.
The former Countdown icon delivered a broadside against the industry’s treatment of working class voices – a theme at this year’s Edinburgh TV Festival – along with the way in which the mainstream media and public broadcasters have failed the nation. She said: “After 14 years of austerity and lying by the privileged political class, this country is in an absolute mess and the TV industry must accept part of the responsibility for that too, including the riots. Sparked by the killing of three children in Southport at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class, the UK riots took place earlier this month amid spools of misinformation and interference from the likes of Elon Musk.
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