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talkpoliticsI may have mentioned from time to time that it is my opinion that all of the UK's media (with maybe a handful of honourable exceptions) has been suborned. I offer further proof.
On the day the UK government was found to be in breach of the law regarding the secrecy of government PPE contracts:
www.theguardian.com/society/2021/feb/19/matt-hancock-acted-unlawfully-failing-publish-covid-contracts-high-court
Such news was absent from all the main media in the UK. Instead we got Harry and Meghan and confirmation of a story that is a year old, with right-wing types frothing at the mouth about how awful the black lady must be. But the news coverage of the government's law-breaking?
Guardian - main headline
Independent - sub heading
BBC - half there; buried on the inner pages, so to speak.
Daily Mail - nothing
Sky News - nothing
Telegraph - nothing
Express - nothing
Mirror - nothing
Sun - nothing
Nowt on the Beeb's main telly news. Little on ITN.
Props to Channel 4, Byline Times, Private Eye, The Good Law Project, and occasionally the Grauniad.
I live in a nation where the (right wing) government breaks the law, and most of the popular media ignore it. And the law was broken to hide the levels of corruption which abound, and in which the media now seem compromised co-conspirators.
BTW the Government spent millions on lawyers trying to suppress the publication of the contracts in question. Public money used by the government to protect the publication of misuse of public money by the government; it's all so very meta, my dears.
But just to let folk know; the Beeb's news service has fallen. In fact there are few UK media outlets that aren't compromised. Pravda and Izvestia are the models you need to look at when discussing British media henceforth. There is no truth in news and no news in truth.
Alas.
On the day the UK government was found to be in breach of the law regarding the secrecy of government PPE contracts:
www.theguardian.com/society/2021/feb/19/matt-hancock-acted-unlawfully-failing-publish-covid-contracts-high-court
Such news was absent from all the main media in the UK. Instead we got Harry and Meghan and confirmation of a story that is a year old, with right-wing types frothing at the mouth about how awful the black lady must be. But the news coverage of the government's law-breaking?
Guardian - main headline
Independent - sub heading
BBC - half there; buried on the inner pages, so to speak.
Daily Mail - nothing
Sky News - nothing
Telegraph - nothing
Express - nothing
Mirror - nothing
Sun - nothing
Nowt on the Beeb's main telly news. Little on ITN.
Props to Channel 4, Byline Times, Private Eye, The Good Law Project, and occasionally the Grauniad.
I live in a nation where the (right wing) government breaks the law, and most of the popular media ignore it. And the law was broken to hide the levels of corruption which abound, and in which the media now seem compromised co-conspirators.
BTW the Government spent millions on lawyers trying to suppress the publication of the contracts in question. Public money used by the government to protect the publication of misuse of public money by the government; it's all so very meta, my dears.
But just to let folk know; the Beeb's news service has fallen. In fact there are few UK media outlets that aren't compromised. Pravda and Izvestia are the models you need to look at when discussing British media henceforth. There is no truth in news and no news in truth.
Alas.
