June 6, 200916 yr Mocking people who are a bit delusional and foolish (but otherwise have all their faculties intact) and the sort of treatment meted out to someone with GENUINE mental health issues is not anything like the same thing Shoat. At all.... It wasn't the general public who dubbed her "the Hairy Angel" or "SuBo" (hmm, sounds a bit like Sumo dunnit....?), I think you'll find it was the fukkin' MEEEDJAAAAAHHHHHH who did that... These exploiting, Middle Class c/unts in their air conditioned offices who love nothing better than a "bear-baiting" contest, especially when it's someone lower-class or "afflicted"... Is the Media the reflector or the director of public opinion...? Personally, I believe that it is the latter.... Remember the '92 Election - 'IT WAS THE SUN WOT WON IT'..... I'm not trying to claim the media have no responsiblity at all. I was trying to say at the media has only been able to achieve this, because the public listens and swallows everything they say. If we all stood up and said "well actually, The Sun is a load of $h!t, I shall not be reading", we wouldn't have this sort of thing going on. If we'd all stood up and said "how dare you refer to anyone as the Hairy Angel?", do you think they'd have continued with it? It's the public who gives the media its power.
June 10, 200916 yr I'm not trying to claim the media have no responsiblity at all. I was trying to say at the media has only been able to achieve this, because the public listens and swallows everything they say. If we all stood up and said "well actually, The Sun is a load of $h!t, I shall not be reading", we wouldn't have this sort of thing going on. If we'd all stood up and said "how dare you refer to anyone as the Hairy Angel?", do you think they'd have continued with it? It's the public who gives the media its power. Well, the people of Liverpool pretty much did just that after the Scum's reporting of Hillsborough.... And how repentant has Kelvin MacKenzie actually been since...? Answer, not very.... The Popular Media in this country is supremely arrogant and ignorant, and wants its readership to be just as ignorant as it is.... Ever since the creation of the Tabloid Press, it is a case that people are becoming less and less informed, unless, of course it's the issues and events that the Media wants us to be informed about.... The media almost certainly created the demand... There really WAS no great demand out there in the first instance for stuff like "X-Factor", "Big Brother" or "Britain's Got Talent".... If people were to read stuff like The Spectator, New Statesmen or Private Eye instead of utter guff like Heat or OK, then you would see a vastly more informed, more intelligent population..... There is something very mean spirited, cruel and spiteful about shows like BB, X-Factor and BGT which goes beyond just having a laugh at a few delusional types who probably need the reality check. With Susan Boyle, they've gone too far, and the public goes along with it because that's how they've been conditioned by the media..... If you dont think that the Mass Media and Propaganda machines have a self-perpetuating power all of their own, I refer you to Nazi Germany and Stalinist Russia.....
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