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We live in a world where in various spheres individuals get vastly-disproportionate coverage from the media.
Literally hundreds of millions of people seem obsessed with a couple called Harry and Meghan.
Why?
Because the media constantly draws attention to them.
It’s the same with “celebrities” generally.
A celebrity getting a headache will receive vastly more coverage than multiple fatalities in a remote village in a third world country because no one’s ever heard of any of them.
I find it a bit sick tbh – it’s just one reason why I’m increasingly reclusive nowadays, the value systems of modern society stink.
There are a lot more bad things going on in the world than the often myopically celebrity-focussed stuff the media draws your attention to – “the news” is never the full picture.
And tbh Princess Latifa is a celebrity victim.
She’s the fashionable one to write about and there is nothing remotely “courageous” about the article in question – it’s getting on a well-established bandwagon.
There will be tens of millions of women worldwide receiving equally-bad, or even worse, alleged treatment, but they seldom get any coverage because there’s no money in writing or broadcasting about them.
That’s why gamble summed up everything I think about this subject in one line.
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It's the "Millwall FC" of Point broadcasts: "No One Likes Us - We Don't Care"There,s more chance of Putin being done for war crimes than the Sheikh being held accountable for his behaviour , both are sadly untouchable , they can only be brought down by there own people and that won’t happen …
‘There are a lot more bad things going on in the world than the often myopically celebrity-focussed stuff the media draws your attention to – “the news” is never the full picture.’
Something that epitomises this is the recent ‘saga’ where a very wealthy and privileged TV presenter is apparently having some sort of ‘rift’ with their very wealthy and privileged TV presenter colleague. One of them has apparently now left left their job as a result. So what? The world will still turn and they won’t exactly suddenly find themselves on the breadline. In fact I think it’s highly unprofessional that people can’t put their personal differencs aside at work and get on with it like the rest of us do. Yet this is front page news and the most read story on many news websites.
EXACTLY.
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It's the "Millwall FC" of Point broadcasts: "No One Likes Us - We Don't Care"It’s funny how year and year exam results see more and more passes , as if the children are now better educated/prepared ……the same kids are allowed to use there phones in class , they rely on technology not education
I don’t see society changing, at least not in my lifetime and probably
not at all. It’s all a bit depressing. Maybe it’s easier to ride the wave
of ever decreasing mediocrity.The News and media certainly give a distorted view of society but a commanding reason is that people like to read or see these distortions. Mainline news or events hopefully best the fruit of truth, but of course bias can creep in.
Distorting threads can entertain either the instigator or his audience, but it can be selfishly motivated and I think that was what Pewter was on about.
I quite like distortions within reason. The facts in this case are complex and there are quite a lot of different versions of what led to the capture and if I have time and maintain my enthusiasm – I might touch on them at a later time.
Another fine thread indeed, and Joe I am thankful for your undeserved plaudit but would also like to thank the two people who voted for me in poster of the year which rather brings me back to earth with a bang of reality and proves that others have put far more bums on seats than me. Blob formerly known as Ian Davies has been on fire all year and deserves praise for his incendiaries.
I never read any Amis and possibly only a dozen novels in total my whole life and most of those prescriptive. I liked Amis for his controversiality and being his own man which was difficult with his father. He died of Esophageal cancer at 73 same young age as Paul High, and his long time friend Christopher Hitchens died at 62 with the same cancer, rather unusually. They were at each others throats a lot, in a literal sense, but maintained their friendship throughout. Sorry that doesn’t read very well. Heavy smoking particularly combined with alcohol are known risks and Amis and Hitchens both smoked heavily I believe.(R.I.P)(in a literary sense not literal )
“Blob formerly known as Ian Davies has been on fire all year and deserves praise for his incendiaries.”
Thank you, gamble, but one fears your opinion is less than universal.
It is indeed a tremendous thread.
Even though I don’t concur with the original premise, Joe deserves the highest praise for lobbing an erudite hand grenade into a jelly factory with it.
They’ll be hosing the walls for weeks.
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It's the "Millwall FC" of Point broadcasts: "No One Likes Us - We Don't Care"I woke rather late and showered and dressed and headed down to Paddington Basin to enjoy a coffee on the waterway to try to blow out the cobwebs from an overdone evening of excess. I sat there sipping coffee with barges and water in sight. My mind turned to Camden which can be reached by following the Regents Park towpath – possibly a fine walk but not one I felt in the mood for and the weather inside and out did not suit. I felt delicate. I knew Camden quite well and had twice seen Alan Bennet from nearby Kentish Town cycling through there with bicycle clips evoking a bygone age.
Martin Amis and Bernard Braden were both Camden residents for some many years. My thoughts turned to them and I wondered if these slightly questioning souls ever met, maybe on the towpath, or on a pavement, or possibly in a late night shop, maybe a chemist and sent by their wives. They both had something in common because they both wanted to capture the public geist and mood – Amis with his bookshelf of books and his views and commentaries on modern and past life, and Braden with his quirky humour and smiling face wanting to be finally accepted on the medium of great Auntie Beeb. Amis completed his fifteen book bookshelf but Braden who lived four years longer was sunk by the nice earner of a Stork advert afternoon. Both courted controversy – they could have each enjoyed a good half an hour together to mutual benefit, but most likely their paths never crossed, and they would never have realized, if they had chanced to meet, just how much they had in common.Both I believe, and to their ultimate credit, were described as kind men.To my eyes too many folk now don’t want to see reality on TV news. They would far rather see good news even though most folk are grappling with falling wages and hugely increased bills. The tories have deliberately undermined the bbc to the point where criticising brexit is a nono. Depressing and tragic to see folk accepting a massive squeeze on their living standards. Btw the pass rates keep going up due to lowering the pass rate and only putting kids forward for exams who are likely to pass. From my son whose a teacher.
Mickey writes…
“To my eyes too many folk now don’t want to see reality on TV news. They would far rather see good news even though most folk are grappling with falling wages and hugely increased bills.”
ITS GOOD NEWS WEEK
Giving the rotting dead a will to live – sounds like LOCKDOWNBernard…” What’s it like being you Martin ?”
Martin…” I think I might have another book coming on “
Whether it be good news or bad news it would be good start for the BBC just to report the news. For years now at ten o clock each night (and any other time) we don’t get a news programme. Whatever the subject, when the host starts to ask the roving reporter their opinion it ceases to be a news programme and more of a magazine one. Just report the news.
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