Thanks Rask and Ian M for your thoughts.

Iam M:
I'd caution against drawing conclusions about public opinions from a TV show. If one of the participants aired a dissenting view do you think C4 would even air it?



Yes I do. The show likes dissent. Politicians and celebrities are quite often criticised and mocked, sometimes in fairly crude working-class language.
Trump is the favourite target for abuse, though not the only one

Having worked in TV I'm aware that "drawing conclusions about public opinions from a TV show" is probably not a good idea.

The point I was trying to make is that not a single view expressed in this particular segment (discussing Ukraine and the "peace" process) was at odds with the overall corporate media narrative, evidence to me that all their information came from establishment mainstream sources. Indeed, it would have been refreshing, and the producers would have seized on it, had one of the participants said we were to blame for starting the war and gave reasons for it. The plain fact is that none of them had bothered to seek opposing views from alternative sources. They all thought they had the correct overall picture, even if they had disagreements and differing interpretations of the "fact" amongst themselves.

I came away from the programme feeling it was a lesson and a warning to me not to assume that a sizeable proportion of "ordinary" TV viewers had the remotest notion of alternative dissenting views and where to find them.