Bring back lunchtime drinking
The usual blindfolds, handcuffs and gags were slapped on live news and discussion programmes last Thursday, including me and my lot on Good Morning Britain. Don’t mention the by-election. So not a peep, other than to say the polls had opened. Why are broadcasters still forbidden from talking about anything to do with the campaign until voting closes that night? Every other media outlet – podcasters, social sites, the morning papers – are free to speculate, predict, debate, campaign. But not telly or radio. Woe betide any mainstream broadcaster who breaks the rigid Ofcom code. Why is TV deemed to have some kind of exceptional influence over how people cast their vote on the day? Television isn’t the omniscient power it was back in its pomp.
