Media ignores 50,000-strong march against austerity "MEDIA silence on the 50,000 who marched against government-imposed austerity at the weekend tells us all we need to know about Britain’s “free” press. Only one weekend newspaper — the Morning Star — led on the People’s Assembly demo. The Guardian consented to run a report on the march online, though it was not mentioned at all in the group’s Sunday title the Observer. Other papers ignored it completely — as, initially, did the BBC, before a flood of complaints forced it to post a grudging acknowledgement on its Facebook page. Broadcasting pundits and well-heeled newspaper columnists were quick to cry foul at the idea of state regulation of their sector after the revelation of mass illegal snooping at the now defunct News of the World and other Rupert Murdoch titles, citing the vital importance of an independent and diverse media which could hold the powerful to account. Who could disagree with that? But Britain’s major newspapers, owned by a handful of mostly foreign-based billionaires, are not diverse and do not hold the powerful to account. Most of the biggest titles — Sun, Mail, Telegraph, Times — are open cheerleaders for the Tory Party, which is hardly surprising since it is the party which best represents the class interests of their owners. To this end evidence-free hate-mongering about immigrants and “benefit cheats” and hysterical attacks on workers who dare to flex their collective muscles through their trade unions are all the rage. But tens of thousands of people marching through the centre of Britain’s capital demanding an alternative to the ruling class war on working people? That’s not news, apparently. " Morning Star :: Star Comment: We will not be silenced
The Morning Star is a rabble-rousing piece of clap-trap at the gutter end of the press. It rarely presents anything that is newsworthy, preferring to use itself as a platform to voice an anti opinion on anything and everything. Its circulation is so poor that it relies on donations from wealthy backers, ironic really when you consider it hates anyone who has made even a minimal modicum of success with their life. Most of the contributors to this rag are from the old guard, the dinosaurs, who still use the phraseology of Mao, and organisations such as the Communist Party, and the Socialist Workers Revolutionary Party are its main mouthpieces, fringe organisations of wackos and weirdos, who have a head full of theories and who think that everyone else should fund their chosen lifestyle of benefits and welfare. 50,000 marching from a group called the Peoples Assembly ? (very Mao). 50,000 is half a football stadium, and the wackos from this group marching could find the time to do so because they do not want a job. They are the benefit scroungers and freakballs who choose to live on the fringe of society. As far as the other papers mentioned, the Times and the Telegraph are broadsheets that have been consistent in their style since their creation, the Mail is not a "Tory mouthpiece" and frequently clashes with the government, and the Sun is a floating voter having thrown its weight behind all the major politicos at some stage. The Sun has the largest circulation in UK, and its readers don't care who runs the country as long as she has big boobs, but it is an extremely patriotic publication. For the Morning Star to say "we will not be silenced" is hollow and shallow, for the fact is that very few pay any attention to them anyway. This is a Mickey Mouse paper not to be taken seriously. Their principal aim is to perpetuate the myth of an eternal class war and their only tools are distortion and agitation. Those who stir the sh*t pot should be forced to lick the spoon.
"A moron in a hurry'" I Came across this snippet about the Morning star and thought it might say a little something, in support of it's uselessness The "moron in a hurry" phrase was first used by Justice Foster in the 1978 case Morning Star Cooperative Society v Express Newspapers Limited, in which the publishers of the Morning Star, a British Communist Party publication, sought an injunction to prevent Express Newspapers from launching a new tabloid, which was to be called the Daily Star. The judge ruled against the Morning Star, noting that "If one puts the two papers side by side I for myself would find that the two papers are so different in every way that only a moron in a hurry would be misled. JP
"A moron in a hurry" seems to describe some people I have been dealing with lately, but that is another story I may (or may not) publish later. Larry
Guilty. If someone is looking to get t-shirts made, please give me one. I have my moments of genius, but overall, moron wins out. As long as my general trajectory is sloping upwards, I'm cool. If not, then I still have optimism going for me.
Along with optimism I would grant that you have a sense of humor (That's Humour for you other guys trying to follow along). Larry