Freedom of the Press
I stopped reading Sunday Times about ten years, or was it twenty, er…. Sorry…… I can’t remember, but it was a long time ago. I stopped spending my hard earned on it because it was unadulterated drivel and not worth loss of trees or the fifty cents or whatever it was at the time. Sure, I haven’t been back so I don’t know what it is like now. My question is. Should it be regarded as worthy of Professional status? Should it be regarded as a bastion of free speech? Would I throw myself under galloping hooves to demonstrate that I support the freedom they enjoy? Not on your blood life and I promise you, certainly not on mine.
The press get blood precious don’t they? Just like bloody Lawyers. So damned ‘up themselves’ that they think that they are ‘well above the law’. Not in my book and I treasure freedom, but it has to be earned and it has to be respected.
My own blood boils when I hear unmitigated garbage such as this…. And I quote. “PerthNow quotes the WA secretary of the Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance, Michael Sinclair-Jones, saying the raid was a GESTAPO-style attack on free speech and civil liberties.” This, ladies and gentlemen’ is crap and they, the media, then entreat me to protect their (not hard won) liberties and those of Michael Sinclair, bloody hyphenated, Jones and the people who presumably elected him, who has the temerity to refer to our Police officers acting like GESTAPO.
If this cretin represents THE MEDIA…. Get rid of him and quick. I’ve seen the footage and I see no jackboots. I see no swastikas. I see no brutality? No…. No I don’t. Do I see a Professional measured response from the guardians (the media) of freedom? No, I don’t see that either. I just see a fragile and PRECIOUS MEDIA who crave total freedom and a media that does precious little to deserve it. Don’t give it to them…. LET THEM EARN IT.
Most of the rags (newspapers) are in the hands of the mega-rich and to suggest that the media ‘IS FREE’ is a total lie and to talk of journalistic freedom is a lie, but the question is….”Who most takes away their freedom????” Not me, or you or Political leaders. Journo’s… Don’t look sideways. Look upwards. Old men and young brides. Old men and their prostitutes and their casinos and their gambling excesses. These should concern you and not young officers doing their duty.
Journalistic standards are not yet at rock-bottom, but hell, give them time.
Open your mind….. “Last week’s meeting of the apathy meeting has just been cancelled….”
Bill S.
