I have written before about how the mainstream media were and are unable to allign their social perceptions
of the the people we assume they're actually reporting for. Readership is everything to a newspaper because
a wide access attracts advertising revenue just as viewership for television.
The pragmatic reality is that a media outlet doesn't give a crap whether the purchaser of their product is a priest
or a psychopath as long as that person pays the money. That might seem distasteful, but it's real.
For that box in the corner, often-worded 'hard-edged' drama and cold-coloured documentaries only go so far
and using the excuse of interest in balance, important information is overlooked for the sake of style and taste.
Take this piece from the BBC, it's click-titled 'Is Old-Fashioned British Tolerance Dead?' and may hint to some of
an article yearning for the grounded days of yore, where people were just people and their main concern was
income and rearing a family.
But because Journalism has allineated itself with the upper-middle-class and a level of prosperity, it prefers to
only dip it's toe into the environs of the working-class for the benefit of self-carressing it's false virtues and to
knowingly -or unknowingly (you decide!) assist Governments in keeping control.
Don't get me wrong, any Reporter writing or conducting a televised interview about the everyday lives of the
average person doesn't have to emotionally take on the burdens of the story, the report is about someone else
and that's why it may be of interest to others who walk in different circles.
So take the title of the BBC's Home Editor's piece and click it, the page arrives with an entirely different banner.
'Crossing Divides: Split British town fights back to foster tolerance'
The report begins with:
'The virtue of tolerance is regarded as fundamental to the British character.
We are taught that our respect for the values, ideas and beliefs of others is somehow written into our national DNA.'
The article is not only a filler because it's published on St. George's Day -the patron saint of England, but it's also
an ignorant nod towards those who have to deal with what is really going on in the streets of that and the other
countries that make up the United Kingdom.
But to London Journalists, England is the UK and by the way, I meant 'filler' because it's not time senstive.
It could have been written weeks ago.
Tolerance, the capacity to endure continued subjection to something. Some might say the adherence to a socially
-accepted point on a general moral compass. Surely something to be applauded.
The story continues about how statistics show we fare well against other European countries and again, if this was
a competition, that British tolerance would cause us to nod and possibly pat ourselves on the back.
Unless we were being gang-raped, of course!
Let's not stoop to the negative and stay with the idea that the Journalist is attempting to heal wounds in the towns he'd
never really visit because the residents probably smell funny or have a non-Eton accent.
No, we're all together on this small island and for the majority of the time, we get along. Pie and mash, curries and
Yorkshire puddings, flat-caps and sherwanis, let's all get on and here's a piccy to help us on our way.
Better yet, send a local photographer out, capture an image of mixed-race or asian females and then get him to email
it down to the capital. Yeah, what the reader doesn't know won't hurt 'em.
Some might suggest that self-accountability would go a long way to stop a group of men from trafficking young girls
for the sake of money and lust, some might say that. Unless of course, gang-raping a drugged or drunk vulnerable girl
is a traditional recreation of the British and this article is attempting to fool the reader by using pretentious words like
'tolerance' and 'bridging divides'
I think we can agree that a coordinated scheme of gang-raping semi-conscious, frightened girls isn't something that
the average British person thinks of when they ponder on British pastimes like colourful May-poles, Morris Dancers,
tending a garden allotment and deck-chairs on a chilly beach.
Accepting this article is factual, it goes on to state a British poll suggests 25% of those contacted think the country is
"very divided" and 'Unsurprisingly but unhappily, the proportion that thinks the country is not divided at all is zero.'
Maybe it's just the lasses who were subjected to the brutal rapings from the 'gangs of men of predominantly Pakistani
origin' that answered the survey who said they believed the country was very divided?
Just a suggestion.
In the mainstream media, it's better for all to skirt around the foreign-influenced cultural problem and attempt to allay fears
with hyperbole, weazel-words that don't offend and ruin the callow anti-Brexit rhetoric.
It's just a damned-shame the men who -and still are commiting these crimes weren't white and had guttural accents, then
the Journalists could really vent their outrage.
Still, the page is filled up with words and that's what counts.
of the the people we assume they're actually reporting for. Readership is everything to a newspaper because
a wide access attracts advertising revenue just as viewership for television.
The pragmatic reality is that a media outlet doesn't give a crap whether the purchaser of their product is a priest
or a psychopath as long as that person pays the money. That might seem distasteful, but it's real.
For that box in the corner, often-worded 'hard-edged' drama and cold-coloured documentaries only go so far
and using the excuse of interest in balance, important information is overlooked for the sake of style and taste.
Take this piece from the BBC, it's click-titled 'Is Old-Fashioned British Tolerance Dead?' and may hint to some of
an article yearning for the grounded days of yore, where people were just people and their main concern was
income and rearing a family.
But because Journalism has allineated itself with the upper-middle-class and a level of prosperity, it prefers to
only dip it's toe into the environs of the working-class for the benefit of self-carressing it's false virtues and to
knowingly -or unknowingly (you decide!) assist Governments in keeping control.
Don't get me wrong, any Reporter writing or conducting a televised interview about the everyday lives of the
average person doesn't have to emotionally take on the burdens of the story, the report is about someone else
and that's why it may be of interest to others who walk in different circles.
So take the title of the BBC's Home Editor's piece and click it, the page arrives with an entirely different banner.
'Crossing Divides: Split British town fights back to foster tolerance'
The report begins with:
'The virtue of tolerance is regarded as fundamental to the British character.
We are taught that our respect for the values, ideas and beliefs of others is somehow written into our national DNA.'
The article is not only a filler because it's published on St. George's Day -the patron saint of England, but it's also
an ignorant nod towards those who have to deal with what is really going on in the streets of that and the other
countries that make up the United Kingdom.
But to London Journalists, England is the UK and by the way, I meant 'filler' because it's not time senstive.
It could have been written weeks ago.
Tolerance, the capacity to endure continued subjection to something. Some might say the adherence to a socially
-accepted point on a general moral compass. Surely something to be applauded.
The story continues about how statistics show we fare well against other European countries and again, if this was
a competition, that British tolerance would cause us to nod and possibly pat ourselves on the back.
Unless we were being gang-raped, of course!
Let's not stoop to the negative and stay with the idea that the Journalist is attempting to heal wounds in the towns he'd
never really visit because the residents probably smell funny or have a non-Eton accent.
No, we're all together on this small island and for the majority of the time, we get along. Pie and mash, curries and
Yorkshire puddings, flat-caps and sherwanis, let's all get on and here's a piccy to help us on our way.
Better yet, send a local photographer out, capture an image of mixed-race or asian females and then get him to email
it down to the capital. Yeah, what the reader doesn't know won't hurt 'em.
Some might suggest that self-accountability would go a long way to stop a group of men from trafficking young girls
for the sake of money and lust, some might say that. Unless of course, gang-raping a drugged or drunk vulnerable girl
is a traditional recreation of the British and this article is attempting to fool the reader by using pretentious words like
'tolerance' and 'bridging divides'
I think we can agree that a coordinated scheme of gang-raping semi-conscious, frightened girls isn't something that
the average British person thinks of when they ponder on British pastimes like colourful May-poles, Morris Dancers,
tending a garden allotment and deck-chairs on a chilly beach.
Accepting this article is factual, it goes on to state a British poll suggests 25% of those contacted think the country is
"very divided" and 'Unsurprisingly but unhappily, the proportion that thinks the country is not divided at all is zero.'
Maybe it's just the lasses who were subjected to the brutal rapings from the 'gangs of men of predominantly Pakistani
origin' that answered the survey who said they believed the country was very divided?
Just a suggestion.
In the mainstream media, it's better for all to skirt around the foreign-influenced cultural problem and attempt to allay fears
with hyperbole, weazel-words that don't offend and ruin the callow anti-Brexit rhetoric.
It's just a damned-shame the men who -and still are commiting these crimes weren't white and had guttural accents, then
the Journalists could really vent their outrage.
Still, the page is filled up with words and that's what counts.
Edith Head Gives Good Wardrobe.