Sunday, 2 October 2011

Western Media - Unfair and Untrue


A western country prides itself around its privately owned media enterprises, it’s ‘freedom of speech’ and sees other countries practising state owned media as ‘un-democratic’ or ‘having no freedom’ - this can be no further from the truth.

Our freedom of speech is in fact the words of a corrupt business man whose enterprises intend to win over and manipulate public opinion. For example, in the 1980’s the Daily Mail reported an increase in black stabbings in order to try and get the peoples' backing for changes to our immigration control. The Sun 2002-onwards supported all efforts of the US and UK government in their operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. 2011 London riots are passed off as a result of ‘a sick pocket of our society’ rather than investigating the real issue of social and material deprivation and absolute poverty.


Widespread media corporations separate themselves by swearing a false allegiance to a political wing, The Sun although portrayed and thought of as a ‘Working man’s paper’ is nothing more than a puppet to the Tory Party. The Guardian although seen as liberal/ left wing does no justice to leftist politics as it numbs and dumbs down the extremities of left wing, thus social democratic policies end up being portrayed as socialism.
This reduction in left wing politics, has led to people thinking that Social Democracy is the equivalent of Socialist Policy.

So when a political figure speaks out, for instance Ed Miliband, about anything remotely to do with left wing politics it’s seen as extreme, then the media plays it’s part by sustaining that belief; The Sun’s ‘Red Ed’ or ‘Red Baron’.

If you were to search ‘Ed Miliband is a communist’ you would receive 245,000 results despite the fact Ed Miliband’s policies so far advocate Social Democracy. The same was said of David Cameron, portrayed by the press as being a more left wing Tory, however strange and impossible this is, people still believed the rumours about this ‘hip new’ ‘down to earth’ Tory.

The degree of manipulation of western media breaks the boundaries, whereas in publicly controlled media view and bias is largely tended towards the people and government, private media seems to destroy any moral or social objective, instead the press is led by rich individuals seeking to increase their profit margin, in fact Rupert Murdoch owns shares in: The Sun, News of the World (recently dissolved), The Times, Sunday Times, BskyB, 20th Century Fox, Fox Network, Vogue Magazine, Harper Collins Publishers and many more. Surely this mass collection of media sectors is the kind of thing critics of Communism sought out?
We live in a backwards society, Communist Media is the Devil and Corporate Media is God. This view is completely contradictory to the truth; of course there are times when publicly owned media has been converted into a suppressive state apparatus, but this is exactly what has happened in the UK, USA, and France etc.

Media now serves the purpose of keeping the people indoors out of the way of harm, showing people how to live the perfect life or how to be the perfect housewife. This fiercely patriarchal and capitalist system bogs down any attempt to changing opinions and views, only one newspaper remains open to public editing and opinion, The Morning Star. The Star’s attempt to bring true democratic and ethical journalism has resulted in it being the biggest nationwide Socialist paper. Indeed it is the only paper known to me that allows people to publish their thoughts and opinions without manipulation from a corporate editor. The paper cares for the public and nurtures radical philosophy; it is a safe ground for people who do not believe in an oppressive system. It is a mother to those whose country has denied it proper coverage of media.

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