The Media

by keith jeffries

Sunday 23rd July 2023 12:05 pm

The Media

We are depressed and oppressed by a relentless media.

Endless conflicting reports which are attempts at disinformation.

It is easy to become seduced by their messages.

Few if any report good news to gladden our hearts.

They are the harbingers of woe.

They rejoice in misery, calamity and are the voices of doom.

In their work I see a daily intake of grammatical and spelling errors.

Evidence of a deteriorating educational system and untrained minds.

Their knowledge of history is abysmal and distorted.

Incapable of serious research they provide infantile nonsense.

This new media needs to be ignored and rejected.

It can easily become the source of acute depression.

A mere daily glance at the headlines is sufficient consumption.

There are better ways to spend our time.

Pay no heed to their intrusion into our homes and lives.

Our future is more optimistic than their sad stories.

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jennifer Malden

Wed 2nd Aug 2023 16:35

Agree absolutely, with perhaps a few exceptions. They seem to delight in making the news as juicy and explicit as possible. A thing that really gets me is describing in gory detail how a person died, and even showing pictures of the horror. Perhaps admissible to show the effects of war, but not otherwise. The dead can't defend or protect themselves. Also there have been cases of people driven to suicide by the relentless media pursuit and search for scandal they were victims of.

Stephen Gospage

Tue 25th Jul 2023 08:34

You have a point, Keith. There's a lot of fact-free and airhead reporting around. That's why proper journalism, by informed people doing real research, needs to be supported (and paid for).

Uilleam Ó Ceallaigh

Sun 23rd Jul 2023 21:30

Thank you Keith; I am all too prone to "doom -scrolling".
As John B. suggests, knowledge is power indeed- and that is why so much money is invested in propagating lies and hatred through the Murdochian sewer posing as "journalism".

John Botterill

Sun 23rd Jul 2023 19:17

I agree with your analysis, Keith. Knowledge is power.

Graham Sherwood

Sun 23rd Jul 2023 16:16

I can never balance up whether it is best to ignore the news (and risk burying my head in the sand and become less informed) or read it and not be so moved by it!.

We should all remember that we cannot solve all the world's problems as so many 'do-gooders' think we can.

Some days I feel that if I hear one more word about 'gender', 'illegal immigrants' and bloody 'climate change' I'll find a hermitage somewhere, take my wine cellar and hide!!

Media eh? Googler's-Extraordinary!

M.C. Newberry

Sun 23rd Jul 2023 15:03

Whilst resident in the now vanished single officer's quarters
during my time with the Met. money was taken from our accounts
to pay for a comprehensive range of newspapers - broadsheet
Red Top and local - and these always provided a wide range of information and opinions that served to act as a very useful
means of keeping up with the news across the social and
political spectrum of the day. I guess that today that function
has been replaced by the social media and a healthy concern
about overt media partiality in the public mind.

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