Sunday, February 11, 2007

Representing all that makes media so mediocre

I just watched some chattering class in a few minutes lay bare all that is wrong with our major media's unelected, self-appointed mouthpieces of what we should think, merely because they are privileged to have a job that gets them invited:

I was fascinated to watch the piece on Blogging.

Did the Independent Columnist really believe that what she has to say is important and interesting for any other reason than she is paid by an (inevitably) agenda-driven newspaper, as opposed to those who write with - mostly - unpaid, if often subjective passion.

The arrogance of our chattering class, media-elite is getting more and more hard to stomach.

This woman is only engaged with because she is employed by a medium that offers access to others. For her to think she is relevant or significant for any other reason is delusional.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

A simple and quite old quote from one of the UK's now elder statesmen perhaps sums this up best of all.

"Seven multinational companies or wealthy families own all the mass circulation newspapers in Britain. Generally speaking, they use their papers to campaign single-mindedly in defence of their commercial interests and the political policies which will protect them."

Tony Benn, 1981