thanks arnold.
yes, we are subject to a form of presbyterian scottish mind control. handed down via a compliant, obedient, controlling and covetous media. . . . .
or, maybe i should become re-acquainted with my meds.
bye
Aahhh!
On the subject of which:
Funny, the Daily Mail didn’t seem very interested in posting my comment on their site in response to an article based on the Nuffield report yesterday.
I’m not sure whether this is the Daily Mail doing Gordon
Brown’s bidding or whether you are genuinely just not
making the connection. A few well placed criticism’s of
the government, a pointed retort by a health minister and
the job’s a good ‘un? Possibly, if the British public were
predominantly made up of human being’s with the I.Q of
a dog. Lord Krebs, merely a concerned expert in the effects
of alcohol acting independently of the government? Lord Krebs
has been specifically commissioned by Gordon Brown to come
to the exact conclusion he has come to for reasons that I write
about on my blog: femalepoliticalandsocialcomment.blogspot.com
So - it would appear, the Daily Mail - still ‘On Presbyterian Message’.
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Ah silly silly FPSC, you seem to be under the misapprehension that newspapers invite and welcome debate through their comments section.
This would only be true if their purpose was to inform the general public, which of course it isn't; their purpose is to sell newspapers (and advertising).
People, being people, tend only to buy and read such periodicals if they already agree with the sentiments espoused by it; thus cocooning themselves away from disagreement and countering arguments that may cause them worry or concern (or to think).
If you disagree with one of their stories then you are unlikely to buy their paper and thus are of no interest to either them or their readers and should be isolated from them as quickly as possible.
It is a useful rule of thumb that those involved in the broadcast of their viewpoint from the MSM /dead tree press tend to view the world from their narrative. Consequently chaps like us are usually an 'outside context problem'. We do not fit their narrative so we are are to be at best ignored or at worst ridiculed for not being 'clever' enough to see the world our way.
@nicodemus - "outside context problem" do I spy another Iain M. Banks fan?
Though I agree with your point as to that circle being firmly ensconced in its own nether regions, I would point out the overall point is that they are businesses and are thus servicing their clientèle with what they want to hear and 'protecting' then from what they don't. It's a sound business arrangement.
You do indeed. But the analogy still holds.
Agreed - but just as the BBC is effectively the Guradian on Air - we should not be surprised that comment outside what is part of the editorial position is not brooked. The Interweb is where the free debate is nowadays - despite it bing over-run with journos trying to raise their profile.
@nicodemus - How marvellous. I'm sure though that some may take exception to your BBC reference, it is after all behoven to the government for funding; what is a boy to do?
I agree that the media can become a monomaniacal bully pulpit, but only so far as it can garner readers/viewers. Once they or the advertisers start to leave watch them change tack with startling rapidity.
As for free discussion on the 'net, I find it fascinating that not so long ago the established media where decrying bloggers as preceding the fall of professional (i.e. paid) journalism. Now, as you say, they're all at it.
morning flipc and 'chap sticks' old boy.
sorry i couldn't participate in your discussion. too busy cradling my sorry carcass as the wave after wave of nausea took hold. All merely in the name civil disobedience and political protest, you understand. Couldn't possibly have anything to do with the fact that i prob' should have dragged myself off to A.A years ago, god, no.
and as for my "silly, silly" asumption that a newspaper might actually be so bold as to allow mild dissent be published in a small corner of their website, yes, well, silly me, indeed!
hope to get to enjoy your discussions, if that's the right word, in the future.
bye
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