Stop Press.

Sorry it's a bit late this week, I was having trouble forming a coherent thought.
I was going to write about freedom of the press which has been much in the news over the last week. Sometimes the words flow and other times I can't seem to get the words down to say what I want them to say. This has been one of those weeks.

I was going to make the point that the press set themselves up as guardians of free speech and tell us they are heroes of the modern age always ready to expose the wrongdoings of others to protect the public regardless of the consequences. They tell us they are the gatekeepers of democracy. This gives them the right to print anything they like and upset whoever they like regardless all under the get out clause of ' in the public interest.' What a load of old tosh. Sometimes they get it right such as Watergate and MP's expenses and possibly Profumo but even these are based around sleazy scandal which is excellent for selling newspapers. I would expect most 'wrongdoing' is too boring for them to bother to print. 

It's thanks to the press that older people are frightened witless by 'young hoodies'. That children can't go out to play because there are paedophiles hiding in every bush; or that a sex fiend is definitely going to break into your house and rape you in your bed. It's a fact that everyone on the social is a scrounger and that we are drowning in a sea of immigration. Just recently there has been a review of press regulation because of the shady and underhand way they go about getting their stories. What was the result? Self-regulation. It's like giving the inmates of Wormwood Scrubs the keys and saying ' you can look after yourselves now lads, just don't get up to any naughtiness.' All the papers have a particular bias and are quite happy to only give you half the story. The view from the hill is that the press are more villain then hero. 

That was going to be the gist of it. However I can't get it to work so I will have to think of something else. I expect it's because the subject is too big and too involved for my little blog. I'll try and do better next week, Sorry. 

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