Nation Cymru are on the ball when they tell us that ITV Wales has been criticised after Katie Hopkins claimed that she had been interviewed by the broadcaster about her anti-Welsh language views.
Plaid Cymru leader Leanne Wood criticised the decision after Katie Hopkins published a tweet saying she had been interviewed for S4C show ‘Y Byd yn ei Le’ about the Welsh language.
‘Y Byd yn ei Le’ is a Welsh language current affairs programme hosted by Guto Harri, the BBC’s former Chief Political Correspondent and Boris Johnson’s Communication Director when he was Mayor of London.
Mr Harri has form in this, he recently interviewed Rod Little after he made derogatory remarks about Wales and her language . A interview I found a bit to chummy,
Ms Hopkins of course was delighted to , get a chance to reignite the flames of her ignorance
She Tweeted
Good to spend time with @ITVWales - urging the Welsh Government to focus on its failing schools rather than Catch up on 'Y Byd yn ei Le’ - & hear my challenge to @LeanneWood to sit our Welsh, Maths & English GCSEs together.
I don't know if Ms Hopkins is unaware that Leanne had a English medium education or what?
Leanne Wood said.
“Giving airtime to someone who attacks our culture and our efforts to promote it is not ‘freedom on speech’,” Leanne Wood said.“It is cheap sensationalism that gives oxygen to a dangerous hatemonger.”and to his everlasting credit Leighten Amdrews the man she beat to win the Rhondda Assembly seat tweeted
Media critic Dr Nia Edwards-Behi said that she was “nauseated” by the news.
“If ITV, S4C and Y Byd yn ei Le have really worked with Katie Hopkins and plan on giving her air time then everyone involved should be categorically ashamed of themselves and the media structure in this country needs razing to the ground,” she said.
“As a Welshwomen, and especially as a mixed-race Welshwomen, I’m fed up of the fact that we’re given this hate preacher airtime and the thought that our national broadcaster has given her a platform nauseates me.”Was Katie Hopkins paid for this interview if so how much ? ITV and S4C may argue that it guaranteed an increased numbers of viewers including
Our very own cymrophobe Jaques Priotic of course supported Ms Hopkins
Watch the S4C tonight 21.30 This will be the 2nd time ever that I'll tune into the S4C Last time to listen to Llangennech parents whose kids were deprived of English Medium Education. S4C is the usual platform to hide the sordid truth from the main audience who never watch te S4C.
ITV/S4C have a duty to explain why they have reignited the pathetic attempts of a racist commentator to attack our language,
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"Forcing a dead language down the throats of children". Then I read in the TeifiSide Advertiser an item about the local Welsh comprehensive school in Crymech. About 12 sixth formers gaining their gold Duke of Edinburgh awards,three students off to Oxbridge, another student going to study in a US university on a Fulbright scholarship. Then there are all the other students going to universities in the rest of the UK. Two students going to represent the UK in sailing and judo. The school also has a special needs link with a setting in Haverfordwest and a pupil has passed his art GCSE and is going on to study A level art and photography. Inclusion, success in exams and sport and all through a dead language being forced down pupils throats? TV companies would produce far more informed programmes if they looked at real kids in real communities enjoying their education.
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