Helena Wadia

'The Media Lets Misogyny Thrive - It's Their Job To Call It Out' The media must not allow Reform UK to push the narrative that immigrants are putting women and girls in danger, argues Helena Wadia

🔴‘The Media Lets Misogyny Thrive – It’s Their Job To Call It Out’

The media must not allow Reform UK to push the narrative that immigrants are putting women and girls in danger, argues @helenawadia.bsky.social

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Telegraph inaccurately calculated 'one in 12 in London is illegal migrant' stat, IPSO finds The Telegraph's sums to conclude that "one in 12 in London" is an illegal migrant were inaccurate, IPSO has confirmed.

You saw the headline - but will you see the correction?

When false headlines like this one from The Telegraph get printed on national front pages, the damage is done.

A tiny printed correction won’t change that. To hold the media truly accountable, corrections should be as big as headlines.

68% of those arrested at the Farage Riots last summer had previously been reported for domestic abuse. You know, the ones claiming their violence was a response to concerns about the safety of British women and girls.

News Watch: Striking doctors' salaries, Islamophobia against Zohran Mamdani, and Japan's far-right surge Media Storm · Episode

On today’s News Watch:

👉 Doctors strike - do they make £100k?
👉 Zohran Mamdani’s win reveals rampant Islamophobia
👉 What does the Afghan data leak tell us about the UK media’s priorities?
👉 Japan’s far-right surge

🎙️ Your hosts are
@helenawadia.bsky.social &
@mathildamall.bsky.social

LISTEN ⤵️

Almost as if its a cynical ploy to obtain the legal precedents necessary to expel trans people from public life perpetrated by the same people who overturned Roe v. Wade

Ohhh congratulations 🥂

War reporters: White saviours or vital journalists? Media Storm · Episode

🚨 NEW EPISODE 🚨

Ever heard of a war reporter? You could probably even name a few… perhaps you’ve even seen them played on the big screen by Hollywood stars.

Now tell us - ever heard of a fixer?

If you haven’t, you need to listen to this ⬇️

🎙️ War Reporters: White saviours or vital journalists?

News Watch: Diddy's domestic abuse, disability-blaming, welfare 'U-turns', Gaza aid traps Media Storm · Episode

🚨 NEW EPISODE 🚨

News Watch:
👉 Diddy’s domestic abuse ignored
👉 Welfare ‘U-turns’ and disability blaming
👉 Gaza aid traps

LISTEN NOW!

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'Supreme Court Gender Decision Achieved Nothing and Was a Waste Of Money' Eleven weeks after the ruling, Mathilda Mallinson and Helena Wadia tear it apart and explain how the media is making matters worse

We’re pleased to see more women speaking out in support of the trans community.

🙏🏻 Thank you @mathildamall.bsky.social and @helenawadia.bsky.social for writing about this in @bylinetimes.bsky.social and for mentioning our letter: change.org/NION_women

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This headline FUCKS

Thank you to @mathildamall.bsky.social and @helenawadia.bsky.social for this article. Bylines seems to be one of the few outlets noticing how stupid the whole "clarity" thing has turned out to be

The Times headline: After a terrible anniversary week, is Keir Starmer finished? While Nigel Farage sipped champagne at the Spectator's summer party, one cabinet minister said the prime minister's reign 'feels like it's done'

it honestly feels like there’s a section of the media which just wants an endless Westminster soap opera, while salivating over Farage’s every word without ever holding him to the same standard as others, rather than anyone fixing anything ever

What I know, what Katy knows, just as you know: most cis women support trans women. But hearing your beautiful embrace of the community gives such hope, at a time when all we hear elsewhere is hate; this is why I had to say thank you for the pod. It lifted me up. 💕💕💕

They choose their words wisely - this 'question' is indeed one that only concerns media and politicians. I don't believe anyone has ever asked it in good faith

I’ve only just discovered your pod. OMG, Helena and Matilda, how you go about this topic, what a breath of fresh air!! Thank you! 🏳️‍⚧️ You’re amazing!
The one problem, I now have to work my way through your back catalogue.

Huge thank you to @katymontgomerie.com for giving a shoutout to our letter - “Not in our name: Women in support of the trans+ community” - on the latest @mediastormpod.bsky.social podcast with @mathildamall.bsky.social & @helenawadia.bsky.social 🩷

Please sign our letter here
✍🏼 change.org/NION_Women

What is a woman? Common sense vs culture wars Media Storm · Episode

🚨 NEW EPISODE 🚨

‘What is a woman?’ The question that has plagued British media and distracted politians for years.

This episode, we ask: why?

🗣️ With @katymontgomerie.com

🎙️ Hosts @helenawadia.bsky.social & @mathildamall.bsky.social

News Watch: Johnny Depp "Me Too victim", Iran "nuclear bomb", Palestine Action "terrorists" Media Storm · Episode

This week on News Watch: did you know
👉 Johnny Depp is a ‘victim of Me Too’?
👉 Iran might have a ‘nuclear bomb within a month’?
👉 Palestine Action are ‘terrorists’?

👀

We pick apart all these unhinged headlines and tired old narratives on this week’s Media Storm episode ⬇️

I cannot recommend the Media Storm podcast more highly.

@mathildamall.bsky.social & @helenawadia.bsky.social are the perfect antidote to many of the deficiencies of UK 'journalism'

News Watch: LA protests, Gaza Freedom Flotilla, and all sides of assisted dying Media Storm · Episode

Want to get your head around the headlines?

Delve deeper with Media Storm’s News Watch:
➡️ LA protests: the press are being illegally targeted, but headlines aren’t reflecting this
➡️ Freedom Flotilla: where did the ‘selfie-yacht’ narrative start?
➡️ All sides of assisted dying

This proposal by the BBC is explicitly anti-democratic. As @natashadevon.bsky.social and others have pointed out, more women are moving to the Green party than are men going to Reform - yet the national broadcaster is falling over itself to pander to the extreme right. Why?

Zia Yusuf: Reform UK burka row is 'storm in a teacup' Last week Yusuf criticised one of Reform's MPs for asking the PM if he would ban the burka.

Why don't the Liberal Democrats (72 MPs in the UK Parliament) and/or the Greens (4 MPs) get this level of coverage by our established press?

It's a good question.

The media fuels the currents of the water we swim in.

Oil spills in the Niger Delta: Will Shell come clean? Media Storm · Episode

🚨 NEW MEDIA STORM EPISODE 🚨

The Niger Delta is one of the 10 most important wetland ecosystems in the world - but the land is being poisoned by oil.

The main culprit is UK multi-billion dollar oil company, Shell.

So why are so many people in the UK ‘detached’ from this reality?

An icon! A legend! A sexual assaulter!

Why did the media play into the defence of #Depardieu this week?

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We’re back! Mathilda has a fringe! No one is pregnant!

Series 6 out now 🎙️🩵
@mathildamall.bsky.social @helenawadia.bsky.social

News Watch: Post-Brexit trade deals, Gérard Depardieu convicted, Starmer's immigration speech Media Storm · Episode

MEDIA STORM SERIES 6 IS OUT NOW!

Kicking off with a News Watch:

🔴 Post-Brexit #tradedeal hypocrisy
🔴 #GérardDepardieu is guilty of sexual assault, so why is the media heroising him?
🔴 Taking apart Keir Starmer's now infamous #immigration speech

Listen 👇

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Tomorrow, an opportunity for MPs to hear directly from trans+ legal experts. Please encourage your MP to attend, letting them know they can contact us for details info@transsolidarityalliance.com

If you had any doubts about the intended audience for today's migration announcements, the newspapers Starmer took questions from at the press conference were: Times, Sun, Mail, Express. No one else.

this is not an exaggeration

the thing is, ‘concern’ about immigration is directly proportional to how much media coverage is focused on immigration, so even assuming Labour reduce the absolute numbers by 2030, the only way that it will make voters happy is if the press decide it should