Gutter press has taught amateurs on social media to spin more lies

RECENTLY some demonstrators who protested against the vast power of Britain’s privately owned newspaper industry, were arrested for interfering with the commercial activity of legitimate companies.

The protesters’ justification was that demonstration without some social inconvenience, in the UK and USA, has no impact on a voting population which is too self-centred to concern itself with matters of ethical principle, such as a media which peddles lies.

Chicken and egg, the indifference of voters to British national standards, is a consequence of the power of six press moguls, supported by voters.

So conformists use phrases such as ‘The Free Press’, and ‘Free Speech’, to condemn the motives of the demonstrators. Such conformists reveal themselves not merely as dishonest, but intellectually ridiculous in their defence of corruption, like an unpleasant child. The conformist is evidence against his own case.

Is there any intelligent citizen who believes that the gutter press ever intended to tell the truth about anything?

The News of the World was the most popular newspaper in Britain for over 100 years, and yet was deceitful, just like others today. But those same tools, of abuse and baseless accusation, have now been widely adopted by unpaid amateurs on social media, telling even more grotesque lies online.

The Conservative who wishes to conserve this ability to twist credulous minds, is worse than the misfit youth sitting at the computer in his bedroom, preaching that Chinese 5G masts are spreading corona. CN Westerman

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