Ancient Citizen said:
johnnytapia said:
Mirror/Sun/Mail/Express/Metro - each and every one of them shite. The Mail especially so as it masquerades as being somehow "high-brow" when, in fact, it's nothing but ill-informed, statistically inept, plagiarised from Nigel Farage's diary, ultra right-wing bollocks.
So which papers do you read? The ones mentioned must be read avidly, to formulate an opinion on their contents with such malevolence. So which are the dead good papers we all should read to ensure our thought processes are not polluted with reactionary filth?
Why would I need to have read them "avidly"? A mere flick through any one of them, on any given day, would be enough to inform even the simplest of minds. You seem to have conflated an understanding of something with a deep experience of something. My "malevolence" comes from watching a nation of idiots reading and believing the nonsense they're peddled by 99% of the press. A nation of people unable to inform themselves - "The Sun says we should vote for Maggie so, yep, that's what we'll do." A nation that tunes in, "avidly" to "I'm a fucking celebrity", "wanking in ice", etc, etc, whilst all around them kids starve; MPs rifle the public purse and banks take the unadulterated piss out of each and every one of us. But hey, Bruce Forsyth's received his knighthood, the Queen's in fine fettle, so all is well.
Best place for news...Radio 4, BBC News. And, to balance out such "liberal tosh", a bit of Peter Hitchins / Melanie Phillips on Question Time - nowt like a good laugh on a Thursday night.