The awkward realities of what today's Journalism is really all about continues as the imaginative articles regarding
a person being elected to the highest office in the most powerful country in the world panned-out to be nothing more
than a poorly-scripted movie plot.
Ignoring the insults that indicated the security agencies of the US -and other nations around the world, were woefully
inept to investigate a person wishing to be President, the American-based establishment media aggressively cultivated
the deliberate lie and in doing so, offered the idea that Russia had placed -with the assistance of a ignorant electorate,
a 'puppet' into a position where Vladimir Putin could steer the United States.
Robert Mueller's long and costly investigation found nothing except corrupt people who did corrupt things that had nothing
to do with a 'Russian-collusion'. The exciting spy-novel scheme involving Donald Trump was proved to be false and left
those who had propagated it in a sour situation... did the media willfully deceive their customers and are there officials still
in Government who purposely fed the inaccurate information to the Press?
The answer to that question is complicated due to the Class-system we live in. Whether we like it or not, there are people
in the public-eye, positions of power and of above-average wealth, who deem themselves wiser and possibly 'better' than
those they share this world with. It could be suggested that we all do it in some form, a natural act derived from a tribal
consciousness and a need to feel confident in an ever-changing environment.
But many around the world had come to believe that regardless of breeding, social standing or accumulation of wealth,
the men and women of the news-trade would always deliver impartial information in the understanding that trust was the
paramount goal and the idea of a red-pill/blue-pill locus was simply a title to validate a certain perspective.
Trust or mistrust.
It's been suggested that all news has evolved into a form of entertainment, slight glances at reality and wishful-thinking
blended into a recipe that holds two options in its mixing. A news-piece can either bring good feelings to the receiver
or provoke outrage that either way, could demand the recipient to buy the newspaper tomorrow or remain at the television
screen for further updates.
Ratings ensure payment to media companies from advertising products and so to have an audience eagerly awaiting the
latest from a savoury situation is a must and sadly, that's where the line between integrity and show-business blurs.
It's gone on for years and the only surprise is a large part of todays generation has just woken up to it. For most not involved
in the media business, that's where the story ends. They either continue to accept what the mainstream media offer or turn to
alternative ways of acquiring current happenings around the world.
But for the established Press, it's a worry.
Just as Eddie Murphy's character said in 'Trading Places' "Once you have a man with no legs, you never go back, baby...",
when it comes to customers realising that the trade of Journalism has been compromised in the name of preferred politics,
some do not come back. What is worse, they go somewhere else.
This isn't an ethical issue -regardless what a well-spoken person on the television or computer screen will tell you, it's about
money. Isn't it strange that you'd easily tell the truth for free, but to lie, there has to be something in it for you?!
It's true that a conduct does reside in the standard-recognised skill of Journalism, but when ' Seek Truth and Report It, Balanced
Reporting and Self-Accountability' are applied next to the multitude of articles about the Mueller investigation and Donald Trump,
it's obvious that such noble qualities were grievously ignored.
Now self-styled Journalists on the internet are taking-up the baton that those who were entrusted to report on the 2016 US election
and following bacchanal failed to show even-handedly, but will they adhere to the disciplines expected by the disenchanted minions
of the established Press?
We can only cross our fingers and hope.
...........................................................
Here's a palate cleanser from the heavy stuff above, although what will be seen certainly won't make you feel better.
It's another example of how those in the mainstream media have become lazy in their arrogance and in doing so, are killing a great
occupation that a public once loved. It holds the bonus of irony too!
The BBC Breakfast team offered a light piece about a family in Norwich (UK) purchasing a new house and discovering its construction
is allegedly below par. Not exactly vital information to the people waking-up to the account of Justin and Tracy Revell finding structural
faults in their new home -you may say, but it is Saturday and a time of the week when 'family-friendly' stories can be used to fill a column
or a couple of minutes before displaying the weather.
It's falls under the heading 'Man-Bites-Dog' story.
Saturday 6th April 2019 and an article appears on the BBC's Television News channel to go along with the same account on their website.
As I indicated above, weekends in the media-world become casual and generic articles, non-time-sensitive accounts and opinion pieces
are used to imply the ever-vigilant customer can tarry a while, rest from intake of the assumed much-needed fodder of the work days.
Here it is.
There's more in the link provided and like I said, the issues of these homeowners may not seem relevant in the form of timing, the
houses are supposedly below standard and would've been yesterday or even last week. This isn't a 'time-sensitive' story.
But look at this...
(More in the link)
The original article was aired almost a year ago and in the BBC's televised and website reports, it isn't acknowledged that it's old
news! Time-sensitive is one thing, but a year?!
I understand the reality is the report is merely a vehicle to indicate standards in the house-building business has supposedly declined,
but when debating standards of any business, it could be suggested that the accuser should make sure their own criterion cannot be
disputed!
Journalism is in its death-throes right now and this is just another example of how it came to being in such a state.
Will social media behave with the same hypocrisy...? Keep those fingers crossed.
a person being elected to the highest office in the most powerful country in the world panned-out to be nothing more
than a poorly-scripted movie plot.
Ignoring the insults that indicated the security agencies of the US -and other nations around the world, were woefully
inept to investigate a person wishing to be President, the American-based establishment media aggressively cultivated
the deliberate lie and in doing so, offered the idea that Russia had placed -with the assistance of a ignorant electorate,
a 'puppet' into a position where Vladimir Putin could steer the United States.
Robert Mueller's long and costly investigation found nothing except corrupt people who did corrupt things that had nothing
to do with a 'Russian-collusion'. The exciting spy-novel scheme involving Donald Trump was proved to be false and left
those who had propagated it in a sour situation... did the media willfully deceive their customers and are there officials still
in Government who purposely fed the inaccurate information to the Press?
The answer to that question is complicated due to the Class-system we live in. Whether we like it or not, there are people
in the public-eye, positions of power and of above-average wealth, who deem themselves wiser and possibly 'better' than
those they share this world with. It could be suggested that we all do it in some form, a natural act derived from a tribal
consciousness and a need to feel confident in an ever-changing environment.
But many around the world had come to believe that regardless of breeding, social standing or accumulation of wealth,
the men and women of the news-trade would always deliver impartial information in the understanding that trust was the
paramount goal and the idea of a red-pill/blue-pill locus was simply a title to validate a certain perspective.
Trust or mistrust.
It's been suggested that all news has evolved into a form of entertainment, slight glances at reality and wishful-thinking
blended into a recipe that holds two options in its mixing. A news-piece can either bring good feelings to the receiver
or provoke outrage that either way, could demand the recipient to buy the newspaper tomorrow or remain at the television
screen for further updates.
Ratings ensure payment to media companies from advertising products and so to have an audience eagerly awaiting the
latest from a savoury situation is a must and sadly, that's where the line between integrity and show-business blurs.
It's gone on for years and the only surprise is a large part of todays generation has just woken up to it. For most not involved
in the media business, that's where the story ends. They either continue to accept what the mainstream media offer or turn to
alternative ways of acquiring current happenings around the world.
But for the established Press, it's a worry.
Just as Eddie Murphy's character said in 'Trading Places' "Once you have a man with no legs, you never go back, baby...",
when it comes to customers realising that the trade of Journalism has been compromised in the name of preferred politics,
some do not come back. What is worse, they go somewhere else.
This isn't an ethical issue -regardless what a well-spoken person on the television or computer screen will tell you, it's about
money. Isn't it strange that you'd easily tell the truth for free, but to lie, there has to be something in it for you?!
It's true that a conduct does reside in the standard-recognised skill of Journalism, but when ' Seek Truth and Report It, Balanced
Reporting and Self-Accountability' are applied next to the multitude of articles about the Mueller investigation and Donald Trump,
it's obvious that such noble qualities were grievously ignored.
Now self-styled Journalists on the internet are taking-up the baton that those who were entrusted to report on the 2016 US election
and following bacchanal failed to show even-handedly, but will they adhere to the disciplines expected by the disenchanted minions
of the established Press?
We can only cross our fingers and hope.
...........................................................
Here's a palate cleanser from the heavy stuff above, although what will be seen certainly won't make you feel better.
It's another example of how those in the mainstream media have become lazy in their arrogance and in doing so, are killing a great
occupation that a public once loved. It holds the bonus of irony too!
The BBC Breakfast team offered a light piece about a family in Norwich (UK) purchasing a new house and discovering its construction
is allegedly below par. Not exactly vital information to the people waking-up to the account of Justin and Tracy Revell finding structural
faults in their new home -you may say, but it is Saturday and a time of the week when 'family-friendly' stories can be used to fill a column
or a couple of minutes before displaying the weather.
It's falls under the heading 'Man-Bites-Dog' story.
Saturday 6th April 2019 and an article appears on the BBC's Television News channel to go along with the same account on their website.
As I indicated above, weekends in the media-world become casual and generic articles, non-time-sensitive accounts and opinion pieces
are used to imply the ever-vigilant customer can tarry a while, rest from intake of the assumed much-needed fodder of the work days.
Here it is.
Quote:Growing complaints about new-build houses.BBC:
By Rebecca Wearn
Business reporter, BBC News
5 April 2019
'When Justin Revell bought his brand-new house near Norwich, he thought it was the dream home.
"I think currently it's actually taken over my life," he says.
He shows us around, pointing out what he calls the "endless list" of problems he's encountered since October 2016
when he moved in. "You find one problem and that escalates into another problem - it's like opening a can of worms."
From substandard ceilings to badly-fitted fire-doors, missing insulation and condensation issues. Both his kitchen and
a bathroom have had to be ripped out and replaced. He and his wife have moved out twice while repairs were done.
It has been dealing with builder Taylor Wimpey, as well as the issues themselves, that have taken its toll.
No coincidence?
"They make it deliberately difficult to contact them, they don't respond to you, they'll tell you something is fixed when
it isn't." Mr Revell says. "A lot of people don't have the time or the knowledge to take the builders on."
He's joined forces with his neighbour Lyn Whiteman to help manage the problem.
"It's not a coincidence that two houses two doors down from each other with identical problems," she says. "This is not
isolated to this particular property or this estate - it's got to be national."
Taylor Wimpey says it apologises for the issues experienced by Mr Revell and Ms Whiteman and for the inconvenience caused.
But could the two be right about a broader problem?
The Homeowners Alliance says they have seen an increase in the number of people approaching them for help over the last
two years because of serious defects with their new-build homes. Research from the organisation, which represents the interests
of homeowners to the house building industry, suggest that only two-thirds of new homeowners are happy with the way their
builder resolved any defects with their home.
And even the developers themselves acknowledge the problem.
The Home Builders Federation own satisfaction surveys show a rise in the number of customers reporting snags - from 93% in
2015 to 99% in 2018. That data comes just weeks after the government said they were considering removing Persimmon from
the Help To Buy scheme after increasing concerns over the quality of its building work...'
There's more in the link provided and like I said, the issues of these homeowners may not seem relevant in the form of timing, the
houses are supposedly below standard and would've been yesterday or even last week. This isn't a 'time-sensitive' story.
But look at this...
Quote:Families have to move out of new Costessey homes TWICE as street hit by building problems.Evening News:
PUBLISHED: 08:03 16 May 2018 | UPDATED: 08:15 17 May 2018
'The four and five-bedroom homes at Queen’s Hills in Costessey, costing £300,000 each, lack insulation and breach fire and building
regulations as well as National House Building Council (NHBC) guidelines.
Despite assurances from developer Taylor Wimpey that the problems on Peter Pulling Drive would be fixed, they have not been.
It is the latest in a string of problems uncovered with new-build homes.
Last year a survey by YouGov for housing charity Shelter found 51pc of new build homeowners experienced serious problems....
'...One of the owners, Justin Revell, found 300 problems in his home, after moving in with wife Tracy in October 2016...'
(More in the link)
The original article was aired almost a year ago and in the BBC's televised and website reports, it isn't acknowledged that it's old
news! Time-sensitive is one thing, but a year?!
I understand the reality is the report is merely a vehicle to indicate standards in the house-building business has supposedly declined,
but when debating standards of any business, it could be suggested that the accuser should make sure their own criterion cannot be
disputed!
Journalism is in its death-throes right now and this is just another example of how it came to being in such a state.
Will social media behave with the same hypocrisy...? Keep those fingers crossed.
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