 If you have been on Twitter over the last couple of days, you will have seen the hashtag buy a paper and the people who or many other people telling you to buy a paper are from some of the country's most disgraceful, I suppose, right wing tabloids. We're going to mention later that, of course, there are many, many media outlets who are struggling during this period of time who, you know, we would, we hope survive. But the sun isn't one of them. Let's go through some tweets from from Sun journalists. So we've got the political correspondent at the Sun Ryan Sabi. He tweets journalists, production staff, printers and distributors work 24 seven to deliver the country's brilliant newspapers providing a lifeline of trusted inflammation for millions during this crisis. A paper costs less than a cup of coffee. Do your bit hashtag buy a paper. He tweeted this with both a Times and a Sun front page. So it seems like probably a Rupert Murdoch News International or News UK now is email has gone around and we can now go to Tom Newton Dunn. His tweet thus ends another extraordinary harrowing and difficult day in journalism because they're the true victims. All of us working on newspapers. Do you know what I mean? It's like Boris Johnson's got into ICU. This is such a difficult day for journalists because you're such a close friend of all of us. Shut the fuck up. You were saying that junior doctors should be go out of the door. Shut up. Exactly. All of us working on newspapers at the moment are doing our level best to provide trusted information about hashtag COVID-19 crisis. Please support our industry and hashtag buy a paper. Dreadfully sad that Tom Newton Dunn has to worry during this period. Went to Eaton. Did he? I didn't get it. Good old Tom Newton Dunn. Anyway. Now from Dan Woodson, executive editor at The Sun, Britain's brilliant newspapers provide a lifeline of trusted information for millions during this crisis. A paper cost less than a cup of coffee. Do your bit and keep journalism alive for future generations. Hashtag buy a paper. The best thing you can do for future generations for our children. I'm probably not going to have any, but is to allow The Sun to die a slow death because it's never played a positive role in society. Let's look at the key messages here. They're trusted. So what they're saying, they're trusted and they'll help us get through the COVID-19 crisis. Before going to your honor, I thought it'd be good to get a few examples where they've certainly fallen short of these standards. I mean, so one quite recently was during the general election, Tom Newton Dunn. So someone who wrote one of those aforementioned tweets and he was feeling rather sorry for himself that he had to cover the COVID-19 crisis. He wrote under the title hijacked labor. This strange, bizarre conspiracy theory that links me, you, a bunch of sort of left-wing organizations and said that this was the shadowy organization that surrounds Jeremy Corbyn. It's actually part of his Wikipedia page. I just wanted to get that up because I think it's quite funny when you have a section of your Wikipedia page called Far Right Conspiracy Incident. And then you're tweeting about trusted news and why we should buy your paper out of solidarity. I'll just read the first couple of sentences. In December 2019, Newton Dunn wrote an article for the sun titled hijacked labor in which he reported that former British intelligence officers had produced a chart alleging that Jeremy Corbyn is at the center of an extraordinary network of hard left extremists. It later emerged that the ultimate saw included the anti-semitic Far Right website, Ariane Unity, not particularly subtle there, and the Millennium Report, the latter described by Vice as an anti-semitic conspiracy site known for publishing articles with titles like The Jewish Hand in World Wars. So this was a big splash that Tom Newton Dunn put out in the politically important moment of a general election. He wants us to support his paper out of solidarity so the country can have trusted news. I thought it would also be useful to go back to their performance during the last significant global pandemic because obviously they are saying that in a time of national crisis, when health is at stake, it's important to have trusted print newspapers so that people don't get caught up and succumb to conspiracy theory and fake news. Let's look at a couple of headlines from during the AIDS crisis. So I'll just read out two of them. US gay blood plague kills free in Britain, so that's the sun during the AIDS crisis in the 1980s. In case you're worried about fake news, straight sex cannot give you AIDS official. They also in the 80s, this was in 1989, ran an editorial that said, at last the truth can be told. The risk of catching AIDS if you are heterosexual is statistically invisible. In other words, impossible. So now we know everything else is homosexual propaganda. And you might be saying, you know, you're looking back into the dregs of dregs of history. This is the 1980s. Of course, the sun are far more progressive on issues such as AIDS and HIV. Nowadays, I just want to go back to a story from 2019, where Gareth Thomas, a Welsh rugby player, it was revealed by a journalist to his parents that he was HIV positive before he was able to tell them. And in an interview with BBC Radio 5 Live, he strongly implied that this was the sun. No one really has any doubts that it was the sun who outed is the wrong word to use in this context, but who told his parents that he was HIV positive before he was able to do so. So the sun, a scum, do not trust them inside or outside of a global health pandemic. And whilst there might be some media organisations, we would like to support good riddance. If they die during this period, that would be the one good outcome from COVID-19. Aaron? Yeah, no, there's something, there's one more thing as well. We haven't got a quote of it, but it's again from some of their reporters on the AIDS Christ of the 1980s. This is from February 1985. All homosexuals should be exterminated to stop the spread of AIDS. It's time we stopped pussyfooting around. Yeah, that was quoting an anonymous psychologist. So obviously they didn't say that, the anonymous psychologist said it. Yeah. Probably the anonymous psychologist. That was plausible deniability. Now, if you think I'm making it up, it's cited, it's in a book, in a history about the sun newspaper. I've quoted it in a video I've done, in terms of a recommended reading, let's stick it up your punter, excuse the name, but it's about the first 20 years at the sun newspaper under the ownership of Roop Murdoch. Horrific, horrific. There are many, many outlets. I don't want a single person to lose their job as a result of this crisis, except people at the sun. Sorry, it's the one thing. If it disappeared, it would make Britain a much better country. Generally speaking, I like to say, look, you can't just defeat ideas by this institution going or this person's or disappearing from public life. The sun is cancerous. All right, we'll do one last one. This is them. Very recently, they've obviously gone all out behind this idea that we should clap for NHS workers. Obviously, I've been clapping every Thursday at 8 p.m. No, thanks to the sun telling me to, but let's go back to 2016. And the sun were writing Sack the Docs. This is an editorial. It's not someone, it's not a comment piece they published. This is the official lie of the sun. The new all out pay strike by junior doctors is a declaration of war on the government using patients as cannon fodder. If any die or even suffer, the young medics responsible must be struck off. However, if anyone dies because of the decisions made by this Tory government, it would be politically outrageous for anyone to suggest that blame could possibly be put on the doorstep of Boris Johnson. The sun only like to hold public servants to account if they are working on the front line. And not good pals with their billionaire backers going on holiday on huge yachts, which reminds me of Aaron's very recent video on who was it, who was your recent video about? Something David, David Geffen, who's spent his coronavirus lockdown on a huge 590 million dollar yacht. He's worth 7.5 billion. But he's like, I'm going to spend, I'm going to see out, the coronavirus on my boat. And it's like, what are you going to do for food? And when you run out of fuel and clean drinking water, you can't just attach yourself from this crisis. And we won't just be going back to normal in three months time. I recommend anybody who's watching right now after this show, not a moment before, go and watch it. I suppose there is a serious story there here as well. And many media organisations are suffering due to COVID-19 for two reasons really. One that people aren't buying physical newspapers and from many organisations, it's the physical newspaper that subsidises the online platform, even if it's the website where more people get the news. But also, and probably more significantly, in fact, it's the advertising revenue has completely collapsed. Because whilst people are looking at lots of screens and reading the news, no one wants to pay for ad space because no one's really buying anything. And also, people think it's potentially because coronavirus is a bit of a downer. So when you're reading about current death tolls, you're not that keen on buying the pair of trainers that they're advertising on the right of the screen. Let's go to a couple of tweets about the bits we should take seriously. So Jim, Waterston tweets, Channel 4 imposes severe cuts to ensure survival. Income from TV ads has already halved. Cuts of £150 million from content spent around a quarter of total devastation for TV production companies. Some shows cancelled, plus £95 million of cost cuts, 10% staff on furlough. So that means they're off work getting paid by the government. And analysts estimated that Channel 4 had the finances to survive for only six months without making cuts. Also, the Jewish Chronicle and Jewish News have both gone into administration. Aaron, which parts of the media will survive COVID-19? I think it's interesting. Anybody who has a paywall, I think will be generally okay. I think if people were willing to pay for your content before, I think you're generally okay, then the New York Times, the Washington Post. Anybody who has a membership kind of base model, whether it's the Guardian or whether it's us, so it's people that voluntarily are trying to support a media outlet because its values resonate with them. I think they're okay. But I think websites that basically operate on advertising have big problems for the reasons you've already outlined. And then daily print newspapers, I mean, they're already dying. In the late 1980s, the Sun had a daily circulation of four million. It was going to go below one million in the next year or two anyway. It's going to go well below one million, pretty good, half a million. I'm not going to speculate. Well below one million this month, we'll find out around February, April 20th, with the circulation numbers. So I think principally it's going to be online click baity sites, and daily print papers have big problems.