I used to live at 24 Molenwest, Herentals from about 1961 to 1963
Yesterday there was a demonstration in Central London against the NHS bill. You may not have heard about this, because the media completely failed to report it.
It started as several hundred people attending a rally outside the Department of Health. Statically they stood there, listening to speeches with an air of Waiting For Something To Happen. The rally had not been well-publicised, but those who attended were the ones who felt like something–anything–had to happen, that we could not let this bill pass without event.
Finally, something did happen. A man cycled into the middle of the road, with a colourful trailer attached to his bicycle. He shouted something into a megaphone. Maybe he called for the demonstrators to join him in the middle of Whitehall, or maybe he said something else. I don’t know. Nonetheless, they joined hands and formed a chain across Whitehall then sat down on…
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If the Governments risk assessment, indicated there were no risks associated with their privatisation of the NHS, why do they not make it public?
But this all begs the que…
But this all begs the question, is the UK media fit for purpose? Let’s face it some publications can be ever so slightly biased.
There is a superb ad for the ‘Guardian’ out there at the moment, forming a part of its open journalism campaign. See: ‘Guardian’ open journalism: Three Little Pigs advert – video .
The ad takes a news story, in this case the arrest of three little pigs, who are accused of killing a wolf that they claimed tried to blow their house down. And the ad focuses on different aspects of the story: the rights of owners to protect their home, the revelation that the wolf had asthma, and thus could not possibly have posed a threat, and the further revelation that the pigs were in fact instigating an insurance fraud, and finally that they were driven to desperation by the unreasonable behaviour of their bank.
Alas, the ad tells a story about the media, which may or may not be appropriate when applied to the ‘Guardian’, but it is far from an accurate portrayal of the wider media.
The purpose of good media should be to inform, illuminate ideas and stimulate the mind. For much of the UK’s media, the priority seems to be to promote hate, exaggerate bias, aggravate intolerance and to titillate our baser instincts.
An article from the Share Centre about the UK’s media.
The Jerusalem Fund
A video called Armed and Dangerous: U.S.Weapons Transfer to Israel, about the continued export of weapons to Israel by the US, which ultimately are used against unarmed civilians.
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