While glancing through the online 'Daily Express' today the comparison with words often uttered at Remembrance services crossed my mind. 'They died to set us free,' they say, yet where indeed can we find a 'free press' I ask?
The 'Mail' is owned by a Lord living in France dodging taxes, the 'Sun' is owned by Rupert Murdoch, not renown for an open mind, the 'Express,' now owned by the 'Daily Mirror' remains as it was, but worse, and the 'Telegraph, losing sales fast,is now up for sale as the two headbanger owners and sick off the losses. All these papers peddle the same opinion. All feed the minds with half truths and lies. Objective journalism is hard to find anywhere.
The 'Guardian' and 'Daily Mirror' set themselves on the left, the Guardian full of middle class wishful thinking in amongst some good writing, the 'Mirror,' bar the opinion, is just another 'Sun' offering celebrities, tits, and nothingness. The 'Times' has some journalists but is another Murdoch paper and limits their opinions to his will. Some say the 'FT,' which my wallet stops me reading, does have an original opinion, I know not. The rest of what passes for a 'free press' is limited, small minded and full of lies and half truths, anything to sell.
A search amongst online journalism finds far too many are leaning too far too the left, a few to the right and once again far too little objective journalism. It makes searching for actual open minded opinions difficult and time consuming. The most interesting items I read are those in 'Private Eye' laughing at how stories get published. There information regarding the true nature of the story or the reason it is offered can be found. It does not leave faith in journalists today.
You will note I ignore the TV companies, they are just as bad.
For your political entertainment tonight. Eddie Mair plays with Farage magnificently.
2 comments:
I've given up on The Guardian. Its international news coverage is abysmal and the online version is full of lightweight clickbait.I nip round the various blogs on politics these days, especially for coverage of South and Central America...where the Guardian used to be good - and engaged.
Proper journalism no longer seems to exist...it offends the paymasters who control the press these days.
As for Farage...if he trusts Boris he must be the only one who does...even Tory voters seem to be supporting him on the grounds of always keeping hold of nurse for fear of finding something worse.
I remember Cassandra in The Mirror...no chance of finding his successor since editors think the attention span of their readers is about a millionth of a second except where it comes to contemplating tit and bum.
Agnes, Danke.
Fly, The editor appears to have saved it! Quality less but sales improving and readers paying to help it! Journalism hard to find anywhere, people do not wish to read it.
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