Media Tyranny

Re: News Views The News May 22/2013

The irony is mind boggling, can you say cognitive dissonance or how about hypocrisy or how about good old fashioned conflict of interest,  the News editorial claims the electoral system is broken, really what was your first clue the fact that only 50 percent of voters bothered to vote, maybe you should take a little responsibility for that fact, the constant barrage of dirty tricks, multi-millions of dollars of attack ads, slander, character assassination, outrageous lies, fear mongering, deception, misinformation, propaganda, the bending and breaking many of our laws and expenditure of public funds to bribe Chinese and East Indian votes using public employees to do Liberal election work on the public dime, the medias total bias toward the BC Liberals for less than honest or honourable reasons, let’s call a spade a spade the News owner David Black has about the most serious conflict of interest imaginable with his gas refinery a pretty well done deal with the election of the BC Liberals. Another point made in this editorial is that the present electoral system is an archaic joke, well as I remember it was this same big media that fought against the STV using the same tired sick tactics we just witnessed for this election to defeat the STV, so once again the media has to take much of the blame for what is for all intents and purposes a dictatorship which is more to the advantage of big money and the people that own and control big media. 

The people of BC will continue to be brainwashed and deceived by the likes of Tom Fletcher in these rightwing rags who tell us we should not be interested in justice, it is to expensive and the people of BC do not really need to know whether the people in power in this province are criminals or not and why do we really need to know if development projects will destroy our environment. Really Tom you do not even have to write a column all we have to do to know your position on any subject is just imagine the most extreme ultra-rightwing position on any subject and that is invariably your position. Your insightful comment on the beginning of the end for the old left-right model for BC politics is so you, but it is nothing new it is a very old evil called dictatorship. 

The truth is you Mr. Black and your big media, big money cohorts bought, thus own this election and respectively this government so you are responsible for every mistake, corruption, insult and injury and not to mention damage that is done to the province of BC and it’s people and ultimately the economy, not that you care about that as long as you get your pound of flesh.

The fact is that the wealthier and more powerful the corporate media giants have become, the poorer the prospects for participatory democracy and the chance that this big money, big media monopolies best interests would be in the peoples best interest is highly improbable.