By©Muhammad Haque
0015 Hrs GMT
London Thursday 3 January 2008
Is the world in the European New Year of 2008 going to be any better than it was in the year just ended, 2007?
Is Gordon Brown going to give ‘peace a chance’ in Asia?
As compared to Tony Blair who did so much to add to the murders and the slaughters of so many innocent people across Asia and Africa while he was in post as Prime Minister of the UK?
Is Gordon Brown the man who has promoted his image as that of the prudent and reliable manger of the public sector of the UK ECONOMY, capable of maintaining that myth as if it were a factually founded part of recorded history and continuing reality of life in Britain in January 2008 the context of its renascent bid to play world power politics continuing to ape the murderous practices commissioned from the Pentagon and the Oval Office in Washington DC in the USA?
Just as the UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown is featured as ‘symbolising' the image of reason and rationality in public life and in government’ in yet another formerly British-colonised part of the world in less than seven days [first about Pakistan in the days after the reported death of Benazir Bhutto and now about Kenya after the reportedly rigged election in the East African country], there is a pattern of consistency in the reportage here in the Gordon Browned country itself where economic downturn is being expected even by the normally overly optimistic and corrupting pro-Big Business FT.
Worse, the domestic reporting by the uniformly-pliant ‘British tabloid’ press is battling against the evidence to paint a rosy picture of the economy.
Especially hiding the awful truth that increasing numbers of ordinary people in Britain are experiencing hardship and loss.
That increasing numbers of people in the low income groups – itself a euphemism, devised to conceal the truth that people are pushed into and pressed to remain in poverty by the decision-makers of the main means of production and supply who can then exploit the people – are being treated in Britain as if they were aliens, bereft of the same entitlements and rights as are taken for granted by the ‘real British people’ is being suppressed by the media.
Why?
Because these people ARE the 'normal' British people. Their denial of rights is linked to their being pushed into poverty. All across the country.
They are the same cultural, linguistic and religious groups as to be found in the rest in the majority of the population. But they are being treated as if they came from another space. Another land. Another time.
Perhaps they did.
And that time, that place and that space is the Britain that Gordon Brown doesn’t want to face up to as he pontificates as he participates in the parade of perfection he symbolises [!!!!] as compared with the allegedly un-British 'pre-election' Pakistan and the equally un-British goings on in the post-election' Kenya of this week.
The Financial Times print editions circulated in London on Wednesday 2 January 2008 carried several pieces showing the likelihood of ‘global economic gloom’ but, as the falsifying ‘British house magazine for globalising capitalistic looting’ has a habit of doing, it underplayed the impact as far as the UK and the USA economies were concerned.
Why?
Because to lie for the looters that operate as ‘responsible business’ [=Big Business and their various disguised offshoots and agencies] is what the FT exists to do.
Fans of the European War [1939 – 1945] time British Premier Winston Churchill may not have the same view for the Financial Times, with one of whose shapers Churchill had an inordinately [as measured against the image of Churchill painted by his propagandists] close connection.
Like many others of Winston Churchill’s morally ambivalent money and business relationships.
The FT is not alone in admitting to the imminent economic gloom.
Thursday’s [3 January 2008] media talking point is bound to remain the transport crisis that festers the arrangements of the middle income groups in the UK. For the 'mainstream British media', people in the low income groups do not matter. They do not exist. People in poverty, people in involuntary deprivation do not count for the writers and broadcasters that actually manufacture the contents and design the displays of the mainstream media in Britain.
And the less is said about their existence the better the mainstream media ‘feels’.
Or the better the hordes of paid professional ‘writers and broadcasters’ operating the media think about their own lives and about their own little careers.
Unless one of the involuntary poor and deprived, the policy-created-destitute, happens to be an ‘accidentally’ discovered former member of the gang, apparently languishing in a seaside town.
As has been the case with Ed Mitchell, a former staff on the erstwhile ITN news programme, now called ITV news.
First he was featured in the associated newspaper group that owns the Daily Mail and the Mail on Sunday.
As if this immoral tradition created by over 300 years of ‘British print media’ lies and lying is about to be ended, the crass propensity to tell half truths and fiction while concealing key facts from their readers, listeners and audiences is as rampant in the ‘local’ papers in January of the ‘New’ Year 2008 as they ever have been in the past.
Like London’s only ‘evening newspaper’ the perennially lies-edited EVENING Standard.
Its ‘editorial comment piece’ on Wednesday 2 January 2008 feigns outrage at the latest railway letdowns.
But its answer is not to really demand accountability from the transport system and railway business operators.
The EVENING SANDARD, as I have been pointing out, has no standards. It has no ethics. It has no morality. What it does have is a monopoly hold on the shrinking market for its print version.
The imbalance created by the absence of a semi-truthful alternative to the big liar EVENING STANDARD continues apace despite the attempts by another sort of media liar to offer ‘a choice’ away from the ‘EVENING SANDARD’.
That has not been any good, especially because the contents have remained frighteningly uniform and akin to the contents, the bias, the prejudice, the ignorance [that together make up the 'newspaper columns] and the agenda of the incumbent ‘main evening paper’!
[To be continued]
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