Political Descriptions

Listening to the news on the radio (BBC Radio 4 and Times Radio) and watching TV News programmes (BBC World Service, Sky News and GB News) makes me appreciate how politically left much news reporting has become. GB News however has a more right wing approach though its popular "Head to Head" programme has debating between parties with opposing political views,  is often interesting to follow.

Thus the phrase "far right", is frequently used to describe people of ill repute such as those  who recently rioted against immigration centres. Years ago such people might have been described as "hooligans" but ascribing  a political term to them today seems absurd. 

After all   those  who seem to support   countries where for example, being gay is outlawed and capital punishment is  practiced, are not described as far left by for example  the BBC. 

Capital punishment is still practiced in some states in  the USA yet ex-President Trump supports capital punishment though President Biden did at one stage talk of abolishing it. 

Take UK newspapers: 

The Daily Mail and Express are  right wing but the Independent is anything but politically  independent. The Guardian is left wing as are the Daily Mirror and the Japanese owned Financial Times. 

The  (daily) Times tries to have both left and right wing views and is in my view largely successful in its approach. The  Daily Telegraph has sadly sunk to the political  depths since becoming an Arab takeover target so one has to hope that eventually it will come good. The Spectator weekly magazine, which was co-owned by the former Channel Islands  Telegraph owners and is also  being sold, thankfully remains an excellent read though is right of centre politically.

The two upmarket American newspapers that I read during various stays in the USA, namely the New York Times and the Washington Post,  both seem to be  left of centre publications. The  financial Wall Street Journal I have hardly read so cannot comment.

Overall; decribing people as "far right" seems absurd when no one is ever described as "far left" except perhaps in Cuba. The media should use other descriptions in my view.