Ben Delicious writes from London: Let me tell you a secret: newspaper hacks in Britain are absolutely terrified of the Social Media. I?d even go as far as saying that they are doing everything possible to undermine the blogosphere. I can just imagine them sitting in their offices, sticking needles into dolls with ?Twitter? and ?Facebook? written on them. ?Die, die, Social Media,? they scream. ?We don?t want your kind here!?
Well ain?t life a bitch, guys and girls! Shouldn?t have been writing rubbish for so long. No one?s to blame but yourselves.
Some hacks, like, for example, Rodd Liddle of The Spectator magazine and the Sunday Times ? a strange combination by any standards ? is labelling people, who tweet and facebook, as idiots and retards and morons. Mr Liddle, mind you, is not alone in this. Other overpaid hacks, who have weaselled their way into mainstream media by demonstrating their dedication to political correctness and their readiness to change their views at a drop of a hat, mock and ridicule Social Media at every given opportunity. We are professionals and they are amateurs, they say. We know things and they don?t.
Alas, I have to confess that parts of the SM are actually quite bad, with people posting absolute drivel and making total fools of themselves. But then again, I can say the same about all of the newspapers as well, with Mr Liddle?s beloved Spectator containing such unbelievable trash at times that you may be forgiven for thinking that it was written by retards. In my opinion, the Spectator is dead as a publication. It started to fade away under Boris Johnson, who turned it into a book review magazine, even managing to put in a favourable word about his appalling book 77 Virgins, and then it simply died under Matthew d?Ancona, who was assisted by the managing editor Andrew Neil. The current editor, Fraser Nelson, is just presiding over a corpse, combining his editorship of the Spectator with writing a column in the News of the World. And this is a man who is advising PM David Cameron on matters of state! God save us all.
Not that the supposed ideological opposite to the Spectator, the New Statesman, has fared any better, with its crushingly boring content. And as for the satirical Private Eye, well, it?s embarrassing to even look at its covers nowadays that betray a total lack of any sense of humour.
The sad thing about the British press is that it has been hijacked by mediocrities of mostly liberal persuasions, with some of them laughably masquerading themselves as ?right-wing? commentators, while having absolutely no idea what the term ?right-wing? actually stands for and writing stuff that would have made Karl Marx proud, had the ugly bastard been alive today. You can always spot a liberal hack, because he never makes any sense. Liberalism, you see, is as far away from common sense as Tony Blair is from decency. Can?t co-exist, these two ? I mean liberalism and common sense.
Sure, in order to fool the public the so-called ?right-wing newspapers?, like the Daly Mail or the Daily Telegraph, publish an occasional article with a bit of primitive right-wing propaganda in it ? to keep the vast majority of conservative minded Britons interested, while getting those advertising revenues growing and flogging all sorts of worthless stuff. Had a really conservative newspaper appeared in Britain, the Mail and the Telegraph would be wiped out by now. Britain, whether you like it or not, is a predominantly conservative nation, hijacked by urban liberal elites that bang on how the majority has supposedly embraced diversity and multiculturalism and modernism and anything goes mentality.
So bland and timid has the liberal driven British press become, so dependent on advertising, that it has allowed recent governments and big banks to get away with murder. We?ve had the disastrous reign of Tony Blair and his New Labour commissars, who had bankrupted Britain, wasted billions on supposedly ?improving public services? and dragged the country into a needles war in Iraq. Not to mention corrupted politics and undermined the nation?s constitutional arrangement. These were barbarians, former communists and Marxists, who should not have been allowed into government. But the British press let them, and then helped them stay in power, eventually allowing another group of mediocre opportunists to replace them.
And don?t forget the financial crisis that British hacks sleep walked into, allowing banks to ruin the country and saddle the next generations with huge debts. The press in Britain stands accused of letting bankers get away with murder. Why? Because the money men provided the main bulk of the advertising revenues. I don?t think there?s any need to add anything to that.
In the past decade a new rot has hit the British press: it became obsessed with covering TV shows and programmes. This is usually a sign of death approaching. Covering the content on the box means that hacks have no desire to search for stories anymore. And if you add celebrity gossip that is overflowing from the newspaper pages you get a depressing picture altogether.
Hacks would tell you that the Internet is to blame for all their woes. No, it?s not the Internet. They have dug their own graves themselves, the unprincipled conformists. They don?t even bother to go outside anymore in serch of stories. But now the game is over, people. You?re history.
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