Whatever happened to the Channel 4 I used to love?

More often than not these days, it feels like I’m watching a series of 5 minute ‘filler items’ from daytime TV, extended into morbidly brainless 30 minute chunks. The fact that I help fund this tripe, via my license fee, is bad enough without having to pay for dastardly, misleading ‘documentaries’ made by bullshit peddling idiots desperately serving their own agendas at the expense of everyone else on the planet.

Thankfully, there are people like George Monbiot around to put them straight.

Critics like me recognise that Channel 4 is entitled to its own opinions. But it is not entitled to its own facts. As a public service broadcaster it does not have the right to manipulate graphs, invent histories, alter scientific evidence or produce a film which, in the words of one of its contributors, was “as close to pure propaganda as anything since World War Two”

A three part takedown by a man who also knows a thing or two about anger and verbosity.

Part 1/2/3