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Sunday, 16 September 2012
For a genuine free press
While many will still be reading various editions of our printed press and think the recent article by Laurie Penny or Owen Jones is of the cutting edge radical form of our printed press we just have to remember who actually owns these papers and who’s interests do they ultimately serve.
As I say you may well read a radical left wing piece from the fore mentioned authors but be under no illusions we do not have a free press at all. Notice how many stories were anti N30 last year and how much in favour. I do not have to bring up the statistics to show you workers interests are not represented fairly in our media at all. You may think like I once did the BBC a fine establishment a cornerstone of media ethics. Yes the BBC likes to hold a line of impartiality and in some respects they are but be under no illusion if the state was ever under threat or if workers were taking up their class position against the government of the day of which they did last year on numerous occasions including the biggest strike day for many years on November the 30th. It can be under no doubt who the BBC and others who claim to be independent who’s side they are on. They will line up with the boss’s 9 times out of 10. We must never forget who owns these media outlets and who ultimately controls what they publish and produce at the end of the day.
With the recent uncovering of phone hacking within the news of the world and deeper into News international the idea of a free press has remerged. As socialists we do not accept that there can be a free press under capitalism as we live today. Even with a Levison style enquiry the results and recommendations will not be enough to bring a bout a fair and open free press.
AS Trotsky said way back in 1938 in the free press and the working class
Theory, as well as historic experience, testifies that any restriction to democracy in bourgeois society is eventually directed against the proletariat, just as taxes eventually fall on the shoulders of the proletariat. Bourgeois democracy is usable by the proletariat only insofar as it opens the way for the development of the class struggle. Consequently, any workers “leader” who arms the bourgeois state with special means to control public opinion in general, and the press in particular, is a traitor. In the last analysis, the accentuation of class struggle will force bourgeois of all shades, to conclude a pact: to accept special legislation, and every kind of restrictive measures, and measures of “democratic” censorship against the working class. Those who have not yet realised this should leave the ranks of the working class.
Trotsky went on to detail that only under socialism can a free press truly become free, democratic and fair to all
The real tasks of the workers’ state do not consist in policing public opinion, but in freeing it from the yoke of capital. This can only be done by placing the means of production – which includes the production of information – in the hands of society in its entirety. Once this essential step towards socialism has been taken, all currents of opinion which have not taken arms against the dictatorship of the proletariat must be able to express themselves freely. It is the duty of the workers’ state to put in their hands, to all according to their numeric importance, the technical means necessary for this, printing presses, paper, and means of transportation. One of the principal causes of the degeneration of the state machine is the monopolisation of the press by the Stalinist bureaucracy which risks transforming all the gains of the October revolution to a pile of ruins.
Trotsky concludes that workers need their own press and only a truly independent democratic form of a communication press can succeed and bring the news other day to the mass’s democratically and fairly.
It is essential to wage an unrelenting battle against the reactionary press. But the workers cannot leave a task they have to fulfil themselves through their own organisations and their own press, to the repressive fist of the bourgeois state. Today the government may seem well disposed towards workers’ organisations. Tomorrow it may fall, and it inevitably will, into the hands of the most reactionary elements of the bourgeoisie. In this case the existing repressive laws will be used against the workers. Only adventurisms who think of nothing but the moment’s needs can fail to guard themselves against such a danger.
The most efficient way to fight the bourgeois press is for the workers’ press to develop. Of course, yellow papers like El Popular, are unable to undertake such a task. Such papers have no place among the workers’ press, the revolutionary press, or even the bourgeois press of good reputation. El Popular serves the personal ambitions of Mr. Tolerant, who himself is in fact in the service of the Stalinist bureaucracy. Its methods: lies, calumnies, witch hunts, are methods a la Tolerant. His paper has neither program nor ideas. It is evident that such a sheet can never strike a resonant chord in the working class, nor win them over from the bourgeois press.
So we arrive at the inevitable conclusion that the struggle between the bourgeois presses starts with the eviction of the degenerate leaders from workers’ organisations and in particular from the liberation of the workers’ press from the tutelage of Tolerant and other bourgeois careerists. The Mexican proletariat needs an honest press to express its needs, defend its interests, broaden its horizon and pave the way for the socialist revolution in Mexico. This is what CLAVE intends to do. So, we start by declaring an unrelenting war against the Bonaparte’s pretensions of Tolerant. In this effort, we hope for the support of all advanced workers, as well as Marxists and authentic democrats.
Last updated on: 20.4.2007
Under socialism the press would be shared out to those who win the most in elections and beyond if you win a low turn out in elections as pro capitalist leaders would under socialism as their ideas being bankrupt we wouldn’t exclude them we would give them as much as their vote suggests and a section of the press to put their views across. Of course we would be well on our way towards socialism by this point but the freedom of the press goes hand in hand with democratic reforms and rights of the people to present an alternative at any opportunity, even if it is wrong and would throw us back. Exposing this and showing we are open to democracy will shine through and show eared on the correct path to true democratic socialist society. To benefit the many not just the few.
Which means the working class needs its own press a weekly socialist paper which we produce known as the Socialist is key to transforming ideas and building a alternative toe the so called free press which is not free at all. Only if it was held in the workers hands the hands of the many could it be democratically free to all.
Friday, 8 July 2011
End of The news of the world, time fora free democratic press
So the demise of the News of the World will be greeted with lots of celebrations from trade unionists and working class activists who have been on its wrong end for years.
We clearly on this blog do not wish for any innocent workers to be caught up in all this and fear this is likely to happen with the closing of the paper this weekend.
This is a sad consequence of the paper deciding to close. We hope those workers can find another job very soon and be represented by a unin the NUJ, national union of journalists if they can be.
But this rehiterats our point as socialists for a call for a open democractic media run by the workers for the workers. there should be no profit involved in telling the news. Making money out of peoples misfortunes and happenings is not on and i do hope this will be the end of it although i dont hold out much hope for that.
On Thursday the 200 staff working on the News of the World were given 90-day statutory redundancy notices and were told their jobs were gone by Rebekah Brooks, News International's chief executive.
The National Union of Journalists responded: "This is an act of damage limitation to salvage Murdoch's reputation and that of News International, both of which are now tarnished beyond repair ... Closing the title and sacking over 200 staff in the UK and Ireland, and putting scores more freelances and casuals out of a job, is an act of utter cynical opportunism".
30 sub-editors at the Sun newspaper walked out in protest when they heard of the shocking treatment of their colleagues at the NoW.
The rights of workers within News International are minimal and this is a direct result of the smashing of trade union organisation by Murdoch following the Wapping dispute in 1986.
The Rupert Murdoch owned News of the World (NoW) phone-hacking scandal is being exposed in all its brutal venality. The revelations that Milly Dowler - the 13 year old murdered in 2002 - had her voicemail hacked by the private detective Glenn Mulcaire, who was working for the News of the World, has caused mass outrage.
A 'boycott the News of the World' campaign is gaining huge support.
So publicly toxic is the NoW becoming that even multinational companies like Ford and Tesco are pulling or considering pulling advertising from the paper.
On top of this it is currently being reported that some of those who lost family members in the 7/7 bombings in 2005 have also been targeted for hacking by the NoW.
The police have told the parents of the two girls, Jessica Chapman and Holly Wells, also murdered in 2002 in Soham, that they're phones were, in all likelihood, hacked.
All child killings are now to be looked at by the current police phone-hacking investigation to see whether their families were also victims of the NoW's gutter methods.
Establishment cover-up
These new and shocking revelations come from documents seized from Glenn Mulcaire in 2006, but are only now coming to light. This follows political and public pressure for a new inquiry following what was widely seen as a cover-up by the Metropolitan Police during its first 'investigation' in 2006.
Then the police claimed that Mulcaire targeted only a very small number of people.
News International gave assurances that "only one rogue reporter" was involved in illegal phone-hacking. The then editor of the NoW, Andy Coulson resigned after Mulcaire and the paper's "Royal Correspondent", Clive Goodman, were jailed.
Coulson went on to be appointed as David Cameron's chief media adviser but resigned late last year.
However, Sean Hoare, a former reporter who worked for Coulson at The Sun and The News of the World, told The New York Times that he had played tape recordings of hacked messages for Coulson and that his former boss "actively encouraged me" to break into the voice-mail accounts of public figures.
Hoare told the BBC Coulson was "well aware that the practice exists. To deny it is a lie, is simply a lie."
Unbelievably, even as late as December 2010 Scotland Yard claimed not to have found any new evidence of criminal activity. The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said there was "no admissible evidence" to support the claims that public figures' phones were hacked.
It was only when actress Sienna Miller's civil case was breaking that their was a change of mind and the Met Police issued a statement saying they were to launch a fresh investigation into hacking after receiving "significant new information".
This significant new information had been in their hands since 2006!
First the Guardian newspaper in 2009 claimed thousands of people had been hacked. Then the New York Times in 2010 exposed the fact that the Metropolitan Police had actually seized 4,332 names, 2,987 mobile phone numbers and 91 PIN codes (needed for accessing voicemail messages) from Glenn Mulcaire when he was arrested in 2006.
This alone would clearly indicate that phone hacking and other activities were indeed being practiced on an 'industrial scale'. Mulcaire's documents run to 11,000 pages and contained the mobile numbers and other personal information of thousands of targets.
All the revelations about Milly Dowler, the 7/7 families and the parents of other murdered children were in the hands of the police in 2006.
The extent of police collusion to cover-up the NoW activities is breathtaking. Andy Hayman, who led the 2006 inquiry for the Met, now writes for the Times and other Murdoch papers.
As Labour MP Paul Farrelly, a member of the select committee who looked into the phone hacking scandal commented: "Had Mr Hayman been in charge of the Watergate inquiry, President Nixon would have safely served a full term."... "We were very critical of the evasiveness displayed by Mr Yates (Hayman's replacement) in the police evidence to us."
News International are desperately trying to erect a cordon sanitaire around their chief executive, Rebekah Brooks. Brooks was the editor of the NoW from 2000-2003 and claims to know nothing of any phone-hacking.
Significantly, News International executives have passed to the police inquiry details of payments to police officers signed off by Andy Coulson, for "information".
It seems likely that they are preparing to offer up Coulson as a sacrifice to protect Brooks.
Payments to police
The widespread use of payments to police officers is another reason why the Met police indulged in a blatant cover up. It exposes the embedded links between the Murdoch press and sections of the state machine including the British government.
Both Murdoch and Brooks regularly met with Tony Blair and now David Cameron to push for their right-wing political agenda to be implemented.
In particular Murdoch has been lobbying Cameron and the Con-Dem coalition to allow News Corporation to own BSkyB outright, which would give then an unassailable position as the UK's most powerful broadcaster.
Alongside this, News International executives, particularly Murdoch junior, have launched a broadside against the BBC and its "monopoly", calling for an end to licence fee payments going to the corporation.
Their aim is to establish a totally dominant position for not just their titles, but also the political ideology they promote - free market capitalism and a virulent hostility to the interests of the working class.
News International's four UK papers - The Sun, The Times, Sunday Times and the News of the World - hold a 37% share of all newspaper circulation. Sky TV is already the biggest broadcaster in terms of revenue - £5.9 billion last year alone with profits just under £1 billion.
This puts Sky ahead of the BBC and ITN in terms of financial resources. Murdoch is desperate to win 100% control of BSkyB (he currently holds 40%), so he can access the full cash-cow that is Sky TV.
Full trade union-led public inquiry needed
Demands for a full and open public inquiry are growing into the phone-hacking scandal and the collusion of the police and many politicians. Cameron has now conceded an inquiry but only after police investigations are concluded.
We demand a full and transparent investigation by a democratic and accountable committee that would involve elected workers' representatives, including those of the print trade unions who Murdoch tried to destroy during the Wapping dispute.
Full access to all the documents seized from Mulcaire and other information must be handed over by the police to an independent inquiry.
Under capitalism, our media is neither fair nor impartial - but ultimately serves to defend the prevailing capitalist system and the abuse of power and control by a rich and powerful elite.
Especially today, in the wake of a huge economic crisis of capitalism, the media will aim to peddle the lie that working class people should pay for a crisis they did not create.
At the same time the Murdoch press are silent about the rich bankers and top bosses whose bonuses are back to pre-crash levels, in stark contrast to the millions who are facing unemployment and savage cuts in public services.
That is why we campaign for the democratic public ownership of the major media corporations as the only way to break their abuse of power and ensure a democratic media.
It would then be possible to ensure democratic access to the press based on an allocation to different ideas, including socialist views, dependent on their levels of public support.
Tommy Sheridan case
During the Tommy Sheridan [the well known Scottish socialist and ex-MSP] perjury trial former NoW editor Andy Coulson claimed that he knew nothing about the hacking of Tommy Sheridan's phone, even though Tommy's details were found in Mulcaire's seized documents.
He also denied ever paying bribes to police officers. Furthermore, Bob Bird, the Scottish editor of the NoW said he knew nothing about the hacking of Tommy Sheridan's phone or any other surveillance methods used by the NoW.
He also claimed that he could not find emails between the NoW and Glenn Mulcaire about the investigation that the paper did into Tommy Sheridan, as they had been "shipped off to Mumbai".
Tom Watson, the Labour MP who has been to the forefront of the campaign to get to the truth about the phone-hacking scandal, has been told that the email correspondence is in fact in a warehouse in London.
The reality is that the jury were denied a full picture of the lengths, including the money they paid, that the NoW went to undermine Tommy Sheridan. If they had been given all the facts then it is likely the jury would have arrived at a different verdict.
In addition, had these revelations about the NoW hacking of Milly Dowler and others, including Tommy Sheridan, been made available before Tommy Sheridan's perjury trial, rather than covered up by the police, there would have been no possibility of a conviction.
As it was the jury only found him guilty by eight to six and this conviction, in the light of what has happened in the last few days, must now be overturned.
Strong trade union influence in the newspaper industry can also help prevent the use of illegal and anti-working class methods of investigation, including phone-hacking.
A free democractic press must be born out of this crisis and fresh clean ideas brought forward for the industry.
"This must be accompanied by raising now the need for the nationalisation of the printing presses, television and radio, under popular management and control, as the most democratic means of overcoming the dictatorial stranglehold presently exercised by the press moguls and their acolytes.
"This is not to suggest 'state control' of the press ... We oppose the state monopoly of news and information as existed in the Stalinist states of the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe.
"...The real alternative is democratic working-class and popular control of the press and media in general. This would not result in a monopoly for the government or one party but allow access to the media in proportion to political support.
" ... Capitalism and Stalinism defend undemocratic control of the media by a minority. Scientific socialism, Marxism, socialism and democracy stand for taking the 'production of information' out of the hands of a minority to put it in the hands of a majority and allow full freedom of discussion".
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News of the World phone hacking scandal
We clearly on this blog do not wish for any innocent workers to be caught up in all this and fear this is likely to happen with the closing of the paper this weekend.
This is a sad consequence of the paper deciding to close. We hope those workers can find another job very soon and be represented by a unin the NUJ, national union of journalists if they can be.
But this rehiterats our point as socialists for a call for a open democractic media run by the workers for the workers. there should be no profit involved in telling the news. Making money out of peoples misfortunes and happenings is not on and i do hope this will be the end of it although i dont hold out much hope for that.
On Thursday the 200 staff working on the News of the World were given 90-day statutory redundancy notices and were told their jobs were gone by Rebekah Brooks, News International's chief executive.
The National Union of Journalists responded: "This is an act of damage limitation to salvage Murdoch's reputation and that of News International, both of which are now tarnished beyond repair ... Closing the title and sacking over 200 staff in the UK and Ireland, and putting scores more freelances and casuals out of a job, is an act of utter cynical opportunism".
30 sub-editors at the Sun newspaper walked out in protest when they heard of the shocking treatment of their colleagues at the NoW.
The rights of workers within News International are minimal and this is a direct result of the smashing of trade union organisation by Murdoch following the Wapping dispute in 1986.
The Rupert Murdoch owned News of the World (NoW) phone-hacking scandal is being exposed in all its brutal venality. The revelations that Milly Dowler - the 13 year old murdered in 2002 - had her voicemail hacked by the private detective Glenn Mulcaire, who was working for the News of the World, has caused mass outrage.
A 'boycott the News of the World' campaign is gaining huge support.
So publicly toxic is the NoW becoming that even multinational companies like Ford and Tesco are pulling or considering pulling advertising from the paper.
On top of this it is currently being reported that some of those who lost family members in the 7/7 bombings in 2005 have also been targeted for hacking by the NoW.
The police have told the parents of the two girls, Jessica Chapman and Holly Wells, also murdered in 2002 in Soham, that they're phones were, in all likelihood, hacked.
All child killings are now to be looked at by the current police phone-hacking investigation to see whether their families were also victims of the NoW's gutter methods.
Establishment cover-up
These new and shocking revelations come from documents seized from Glenn Mulcaire in 2006, but are only now coming to light. This follows political and public pressure for a new inquiry following what was widely seen as a cover-up by the Metropolitan Police during its first 'investigation' in 2006.
Then the police claimed that Mulcaire targeted only a very small number of people.
News International gave assurances that "only one rogue reporter" was involved in illegal phone-hacking. The then editor of the NoW, Andy Coulson resigned after Mulcaire and the paper's "Royal Correspondent", Clive Goodman, were jailed.
Coulson went on to be appointed as David Cameron's chief media adviser but resigned late last year.
However, Sean Hoare, a former reporter who worked for Coulson at The Sun and The News of the World, told The New York Times that he had played tape recordings of hacked messages for Coulson and that his former boss "actively encouraged me" to break into the voice-mail accounts of public figures.
Hoare told the BBC Coulson was "well aware that the practice exists. To deny it is a lie, is simply a lie."
Unbelievably, even as late as December 2010 Scotland Yard claimed not to have found any new evidence of criminal activity. The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said there was "no admissible evidence" to support the claims that public figures' phones were hacked.
It was only when actress Sienna Miller's civil case was breaking that their was a change of mind and the Met Police issued a statement saying they were to launch a fresh investigation into hacking after receiving "significant new information".
This significant new information had been in their hands since 2006!
First the Guardian newspaper in 2009 claimed thousands of people had been hacked. Then the New York Times in 2010 exposed the fact that the Metropolitan Police had actually seized 4,332 names, 2,987 mobile phone numbers and 91 PIN codes (needed for accessing voicemail messages) from Glenn Mulcaire when he was arrested in 2006.
This alone would clearly indicate that phone hacking and other activities were indeed being practiced on an 'industrial scale'. Mulcaire's documents run to 11,000 pages and contained the mobile numbers and other personal information of thousands of targets.
All the revelations about Milly Dowler, the 7/7 families and the parents of other murdered children were in the hands of the police in 2006.
The extent of police collusion to cover-up the NoW activities is breathtaking. Andy Hayman, who led the 2006 inquiry for the Met, now writes for the Times and other Murdoch papers.
As Labour MP Paul Farrelly, a member of the select committee who looked into the phone hacking scandal commented: "Had Mr Hayman been in charge of the Watergate inquiry, President Nixon would have safely served a full term."... "We were very critical of the evasiveness displayed by Mr Yates (Hayman's replacement) in the police evidence to us."
News International are desperately trying to erect a cordon sanitaire around their chief executive, Rebekah Brooks. Brooks was the editor of the NoW from 2000-2003 and claims to know nothing of any phone-hacking.
Significantly, News International executives have passed to the police inquiry details of payments to police officers signed off by Andy Coulson, for "information".
It seems likely that they are preparing to offer up Coulson as a sacrifice to protect Brooks.
Payments to police
The widespread use of payments to police officers is another reason why the Met police indulged in a blatant cover up. It exposes the embedded links between the Murdoch press and sections of the state machine including the British government.
Both Murdoch and Brooks regularly met with Tony Blair and now David Cameron to push for their right-wing political agenda to be implemented.
In particular Murdoch has been lobbying Cameron and the Con-Dem coalition to allow News Corporation to own BSkyB outright, which would give then an unassailable position as the UK's most powerful broadcaster.
Alongside this, News International executives, particularly Murdoch junior, have launched a broadside against the BBC and its "monopoly", calling for an end to licence fee payments going to the corporation.
Their aim is to establish a totally dominant position for not just their titles, but also the political ideology they promote - free market capitalism and a virulent hostility to the interests of the working class.
News International's four UK papers - The Sun, The Times, Sunday Times and the News of the World - hold a 37% share of all newspaper circulation. Sky TV is already the biggest broadcaster in terms of revenue - £5.9 billion last year alone with profits just under £1 billion.
This puts Sky ahead of the BBC and ITN in terms of financial resources. Murdoch is desperate to win 100% control of BSkyB (he currently holds 40%), so he can access the full cash-cow that is Sky TV.
Full trade union-led public inquiry needed
Demands for a full and open public inquiry are growing into the phone-hacking scandal and the collusion of the police and many politicians. Cameron has now conceded an inquiry but only after police investigations are concluded.
We demand a full and transparent investigation by a democratic and accountable committee that would involve elected workers' representatives, including those of the print trade unions who Murdoch tried to destroy during the Wapping dispute.
Full access to all the documents seized from Mulcaire and other information must be handed over by the police to an independent inquiry.
Under capitalism, our media is neither fair nor impartial - but ultimately serves to defend the prevailing capitalist system and the abuse of power and control by a rich and powerful elite.
Especially today, in the wake of a huge economic crisis of capitalism, the media will aim to peddle the lie that working class people should pay for a crisis they did not create.
At the same time the Murdoch press are silent about the rich bankers and top bosses whose bonuses are back to pre-crash levels, in stark contrast to the millions who are facing unemployment and savage cuts in public services.
That is why we campaign for the democratic public ownership of the major media corporations as the only way to break their abuse of power and ensure a democratic media.
It would then be possible to ensure democratic access to the press based on an allocation to different ideas, including socialist views, dependent on their levels of public support.
Tommy Sheridan case
During the Tommy Sheridan [the well known Scottish socialist and ex-MSP] perjury trial former NoW editor Andy Coulson claimed that he knew nothing about the hacking of Tommy Sheridan's phone, even though Tommy's details were found in Mulcaire's seized documents.
He also denied ever paying bribes to police officers. Furthermore, Bob Bird, the Scottish editor of the NoW said he knew nothing about the hacking of Tommy Sheridan's phone or any other surveillance methods used by the NoW.
He also claimed that he could not find emails between the NoW and Glenn Mulcaire about the investigation that the paper did into Tommy Sheridan, as they had been "shipped off to Mumbai".
Tom Watson, the Labour MP who has been to the forefront of the campaign to get to the truth about the phone-hacking scandal, has been told that the email correspondence is in fact in a warehouse in London.
The reality is that the jury were denied a full picture of the lengths, including the money they paid, that the NoW went to undermine Tommy Sheridan. If they had been given all the facts then it is likely the jury would have arrived at a different verdict.
In addition, had these revelations about the NoW hacking of Milly Dowler and others, including Tommy Sheridan, been made available before Tommy Sheridan's perjury trial, rather than covered up by the police, there would have been no possibility of a conviction.
As it was the jury only found him guilty by eight to six and this conviction, in the light of what has happened in the last few days, must now be overturned.
Strong trade union influence in the newspaper industry can also help prevent the use of illegal and anti-working class methods of investigation, including phone-hacking.
A free democractic press must be born out of this crisis and fresh clean ideas brought forward for the industry.
"This must be accompanied by raising now the need for the nationalisation of the printing presses, television and radio, under popular management and control, as the most democratic means of overcoming the dictatorial stranglehold presently exercised by the press moguls and their acolytes.
"This is not to suggest 'state control' of the press ... We oppose the state monopoly of news and information as existed in the Stalinist states of the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe.
"...The real alternative is democratic working-class and popular control of the press and media in general. This would not result in a monopoly for the government or one party but allow access to the media in proportion to political support.
" ... Capitalism and Stalinism defend undemocratic control of the media by a minority. Scientific socialism, Marxism, socialism and democracy stand for taking the 'production of information' out of the hands of a minority to put it in the hands of a majority and allow full freedom of discussion".
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News of the World phone hacking scandal
Saturday, 22 January 2011
The dirty tactics of our modern day media
I've been wanting to blog about this topic for some time now but this last week has urged me into it with the resignation of one Andy Coulson as David Camerons communications chief whatever one of those is these days. I think from how i understand it is so out of touch tories can stay in touch with what the everyday person on the street thinks so they dont have to enter out of their ivory towers.
Cynical i know but no more cynical than a lot of newspapers and our press in this country. Andy coulson was forced to resign in the end for reported phone tapping to famous members of the celebrity world and important polititians. While i do think polititians do want things both ways sometimes their right to privacey yet the headlines when they want them i do think phone tapping is a step too far in all this.
In Britain we have one of the most intrusive medias in the modern world you can argue it is due to us wanting to know this apparently is why they do this, in our interests. Well i'm not interested and find a lot of their tactics they use to gain a story and a scandel is downright rude and intrusive sometimes.
Newspapers in this country are turning into being nothing more than being worth the paper they are written on. All they focus on now is celebrity scandels big shocks and big headlines that will grab the imagination.
Gone are the days of great investigative journalism and well researched stories on factual information. Oh no its got to be a scoup or a scandel for you to wake up on a sunday morning to read about.
Recently it has been the football world which has been shamed with a lot of these sex scandels that come up very often now. England footballers playing away from home being photographed and caught with their pants down is all we seem to read these days.
So i make two points do we rally want to be reading this ? and if not why do we continue to buy this tosh and secondly how are these various media sources the press for a want of a better word allowed to get away with such crude dodgy often dirty tactics to get their story.
Why cant we have the news reported that we actually want to know not what they think we should know.
Cynical i know but no more cynical than a lot of newspapers and our press in this country. Andy coulson was forced to resign in the end for reported phone tapping to famous members of the celebrity world and important polititians. While i do think polititians do want things both ways sometimes their right to privacey yet the headlines when they want them i do think phone tapping is a step too far in all this.
In Britain we have one of the most intrusive medias in the modern world you can argue it is due to us wanting to know this apparently is why they do this, in our interests. Well i'm not interested and find a lot of their tactics they use to gain a story and a scandel is downright rude and intrusive sometimes.
Newspapers in this country are turning into being nothing more than being worth the paper they are written on. All they focus on now is celebrity scandels big shocks and big headlines that will grab the imagination.
Gone are the days of great investigative journalism and well researched stories on factual information. Oh no its got to be a scoup or a scandel for you to wake up on a sunday morning to read about.
Recently it has been the football world which has been shamed with a lot of these sex scandels that come up very often now. England footballers playing away from home being photographed and caught with their pants down is all we seem to read these days.
So i make two points do we rally want to be reading this ? and if not why do we continue to buy this tosh and secondly how are these various media sources the press for a want of a better word allowed to get away with such crude dodgy often dirty tactics to get their story.
Why cant we have the news reported that we actually want to know not what they think we should know.
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