7 August (Part 2) - The Government controls the media
I
have to be rather vague with this one, there are confidences to be protected.
My radio has five station Preset buttons on its front panel. I think it has 30 on each
band if I use the remote control but I can be a bit old fashioned and the remote is just too much bother.
The five are set - in alphabetical order - to GB News, LBC London, LBC National,
Talk Radio and Times Radio. I am not a news junkie really; well not all of the time anyway!
When I lived in Hampshire and liked to make my own FM radios I tuned into the
London Broadcasting Company’s first programme in October 1973, broadcasting from their feeble transmitter in, well
I have forgotten, Croydon probably, with studios in a back alley off Fleet
Street. It was Britain’s first commercial radio station.
But I digress again.
Yesterday I was listening to one of those stations and they brought on an expert
to discuss what I will calls riots, if for no other reason than it is an easy
shorthand. The expert was going on and on only about right wing thugs and looters
beating up the police etc. which is true up to a point, but it is far from
being the whole story.
The radio presenter went along with it pushing out the same agenda. I was
thinking, has this expert not watched any of the live streams and I am afraid the
words “utter bollox” may have passed my lips.
As you may have read
I had to visit my daughter yesterday. Who else can
cultivate a computer that cannot do Control A, or C or V and loses the ability
to drag and drop files from one hard drive folder to another hard drive? (Windows 11
on a six month old hugely powerful PC.)
Sometimes it would drag and drop but mainly it didn’t. The pattern appeared to be that it
would copy across a folder if there were no sub-folders inside it - Russian Dolls as my daughter calls them.
Anyway enough of that; I mentioned the man who was spewing biased half truths on
one of the above named radio stations. She knew him, has interviewed him etc.
and filled me in on just one or two details. Only a discreet sentence or two but enough
to make me better understand why I had heard what I did and why there was no
kickback from the presenter, only encouragement of a jaundiced view.
You will have to guess what it was all about based on the associated X post.