Media hypocrisy on Cummings

WHO do you think gave the following descriptions both written and verbal and at whom do you think they were directing their comments: “A liar, duplicitous, manipulative, self serving, unreliable, a car crash, at odds with the truth, untrustworthy, incapable of recognising the truth” and many more phrases of character assassination?

Well of course, it was our newspapers and media companies with perhaps the most vocal and loudest the BBC and the man in their sights was, yes, Dominic Cummings when he was a special advisor to the Prime Minister.

Fast forward to now and we find that these same outlets and purveyors of truth seem to have had a divine conversion. They regularly quote him, his emails and opinions in general as gospel and unimpeachable when he makes completely unsubstantiated claims against the Prime Minister, accusing him of personal responsibility for the Covid deaths, using funds illegally to furnish a media room and being generally unfit for office and of course the bags of wind and blandness that are Sir Keir Starmer and Ian Blackford join in the awfulness with their handwringing and media bites.

The press and media have been disgraceful in their reporting of this spat and far from evenhanded in their handling of what appears to be a personal vendetta by Mr Cummings for his sacking, and it is as distasteful in the extreme as it is pathetic.

James Martin, Bearsden.