Tag: Rupert Murdoch
Crime down.....again
jkitleft Thu Jul 17, 2008 at 08:11:26 PM GMT 
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Crime is down yet again.
Lies, damn lies and statistics the right will say. That's not the reality for people, the papers will shriek.
Well, it is.
Lies, damn lies and statistics the right will say. That's not the reality for people, the papers will shriek.
Well, it is.
Common sense isn't inherently conservative.
jkitleft Thu Jul 10, 2008 at 10:36:57 AM GMT
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The trouble with common sense, is that it's not very common.
I hate the media so very, very much.
jkitleft Sun Jun 29, 2008 at 07:35:25 PM GMT
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Last month, the excellent London mayor Ken Livingstone was ousted, with a great deal of innuendo spread about him.
The big stories were about how Lee Jasper (who?) spent 0.0000000001% of the mayoral budget after e-mailing Kumar Murshid (who?).
Not once, did you, or I, hear screeching headlines on papers, that read something like this:
"Ken announces housing revolution"
It seems that Ken announced the biggest housing building programme for a generation, spending £4 bn on affordable housing. But the right-wing media would hate to have anyone believe that things can really, and have got better under a Labour government. They offer no intellectual arguments to rubbish some of this government's greatest achievements.
Housing, has been an area that has got worse continuously since Thatcher was elected. And Ken was doing his part to help housing for an area that holds 10% of the population.
Notice how not even the Mirror, or the Guardian, compared this excellent policy with Boris' plan to help affordable housing for those earning OVER £60,000. That isn't a misprint. In an age of extreme inequality, Boris was only going to help the top 20%.
Boris' populist plan over bendy buses similarly drowned out the bussing revolution launched by Ken. 2 million more people were on buses, after Ken reversed the disasterous effect deregulation of bus services had upon London.
This is just a small example, of how the media doesn't report the radical policies of governments, and so New Labour has had to resort to populist headline-grabbers, that don't effect anyone.
The big stories were about how Lee Jasper (who?) spent 0.0000000001% of the mayoral budget after e-mailing Kumar Murshid (who?).
Not once, did you, or I, hear screeching headlines on papers, that read something like this:
"Ken announces housing revolution"
It seems that Ken announced the biggest housing building programme for a generation, spending £4 bn on affordable housing. But the right-wing media would hate to have anyone believe that things can really, and have got better under a Labour government. They offer no intellectual arguments to rubbish some of this government's greatest achievements.
Housing, has been an area that has got worse continuously since Thatcher was elected. And Ken was doing his part to help housing for an area that holds 10% of the population.
Notice how not even the Mirror, or the Guardian, compared this excellent policy with Boris' plan to help affordable housing for those earning OVER £60,000. That isn't a misprint. In an age of extreme inequality, Boris was only going to help the top 20%.
Boris' populist plan over bendy buses similarly drowned out the bussing revolution launched by Ken. 2 million more people were on buses, after Ken reversed the disasterous effect deregulation of bus services had upon London.
This is just a small example, of how the media doesn't report the radical policies of governments, and so New Labour has had to resort to populist headline-grabbers, that don't effect anyone.
