You have to hand it to the mainstream media. The control it has exerted over the general election coverage these past few weeks is a wonder to behold. A beautifully executed con job that has left nothing to chance.
Certainly what the TV presenters, interviewers, commentators and news anchors have achieved, along with their counterparts in the press, is unethical, immoral, corrosive to democracy and the idea of liberty and wholly harmful to the people of this nation. But it can’t be denied they have managed to massage an angry and vengeful electorate into a compliant and misdirected mass, on the TV screens at least.
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Print media is dying - Image:Stefano Corso
News Corporation is feeling the
profit pinch as its domination of mainstream “news” continues to be threatened by the shift from print media to the Internet.
In response chairman Rupert Murdoch, infamous for his dumbed down tabloids and lightweight television “news” channels, has declared he will revolutionise online news by replacing traditional free services with pay to view content. He predicts that far from the major competition taking advantage of his move they will jump aboard the new model and thus transform the nature of online news delivery.
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If you watch the 24/7 news on TV or read the usual newspapers you’ll have no trouble recognising the environment they take for granted they are operating in and we are supposedly living in. It goes like so:
- The United Kingdom is a democracy,
- That has a parliament led by Prime Minister Gordon Brown and an “opposition” led by “Dave” Cameron,
- And the office of the Prime Minister is the highest in the land,
- And the laws made in parliament are a representation of the will of the public as expressed at the ballot box.
Which makes me wonder why the old sayings, “None of them are any good!”, or, “This lot are as bad as the last lot!”, are as popular today as they have ever been.
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