Politicians and Media Think We Are All Morons

Just a short post this, but something that needs ramming home. Barrowloads of the usual cliches are being heaved into the headlines regarding Boris Johnson and the so-called "Partygate scandal" and frankly it makes me want to puke. It's a given the MPs are low-life; we know that, but the crop of semi-literate muppets currently posing as journalists are crawling lower than slugworms now, in their miserable attempts to focus our attention on mindless, meaningless events of zero importance.

 Just to spell it out. The message we're getting is this:

• Destroying thousands of businesses is fine. 
• Locking the public in their homes is fine
• Forbidding the public to meet is fine
• Killing thousands by denying vital treatment is fine
• Forcing everyone to wear obedience-muzzles is fine
• Wrecking the lives of millions is fine
• Replacing children's education with video-classes and mask-abuse is fine 

• Getting pissed after work while doing the above is not fine

Ye gods, what do these 'commentators' and 'columnists' do at work to justify their job titles?  I can only picture a large, silent office where ten or twelve of the editor's friends and relatives are slumped in front of monitors staring at Instagram all day. Not a word is spoken until a masked gender-studies graduate from Deliveroo pops in with the Subway subs and milk shakes. Around 4.30 an intern wanders round distributing three "talking points of the day" which require the scribes to pad out 10 words into 300. The "journos" then refer to their in-house crib-sheet which describes "how to write an article".

1. Headline must include either "outrage" or "experts say."  

2. Include made-up anonymous quote using the term ""sources say."

3. Emphasise that something called "the public" are very upset about this issue.

Investigative reporting in the 21st century.

Ian Andrew-Patrick