A quick glance at the 'Online Mail' this morning reveals the low state of the 'newspapers' in the UK. Truly they are the least trusted outside of North Korea.
The story selected for the top spot features a 25 year old woman suffering a cancer. The Prime Minister is trying to take us out of the ECHR to concentrate on his farcical 'Rwanda' policy, yet the Mail places a sick woman as the top story? This is accompanied by similar major events, 'Parking wars in Ipswich,' the trials of being married to a 'sex addict,' though I did not read on to see if it was a male or female one, several stories of celebs trials flash by while the next top story informs us it will rain a lot, in April!
I could have investigated the 'Premier league love rat,' or the female train driver being 'forced to work Saturdays,' or Charles 'opening Balmoral to tourists,' but I have just had breakfast. Putin thinks he is winning in Ukraine, UK aid workers are killed in Israel, the election is due soon, and the press fill the pages with pap like this?
The 'serious press is little better. The 'Telegraph,' which I had free for a short time before they demanded money, the 'Independent,' the best of a bad lot, and the 'Guardian,' once a newspaper, now a woman's grudge campaign, all pretend to be serious but follow the world view in different ways. The 'Telegraph' having become a serious 'Daily Mail,' and never mentioning the ongoing fight to own the once Tory paper. We cannot mention the BBC, this is because Boris killed the journalism there by installing Tory control, now independent journalism is rare there.
What a mess, I now find news via Twitter, even though Musk has killed much of it, and the porn on offer, alongside dubious ads can be annoying. If you search here you can find reliable sources, as well as the many false leads. However, the news from US channels is more informative than that in the UK. I suspect European news agencies are also more reliable than the English based press. All Scots press is controlled by England, so that is of no worth.
Possibly North Koreans are better informed re the UK than the UK?
2 comments:
Cheeky devils the Telegraph....it was supposed to be free while I had a subscription...which I had at a discount from a promotion in The Spectator.
I take a look at what's on Substack, then Greystone, but then it is blogs dealing with different areas...Jonathon Cook for Palestine, for example. It's far from complete, but better than the rags posing as national newspapers today...
Oddly enough The Spectator is quite good on news and background.
Fly, It was free for a while, but now it asks for money. No idea what Greystone is, Iwill look at Substack.
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