Sums up my thoughts on the whole "new century media approach" and belief in it.

ianleslie.substack.com/p/angels-demons-and-videotape

Really excellent article.

If only mainstream journalists had paused when Covid emerged and not just swung full-tilt into the re-enforcer mode. Social media; though, is the quick fix "news" junk food and its approach seems to have been adopted by traditional media. This may be the single most pertinent factor in how the world ended up inflicting such terrible damage on itself in the face of a virus that is no threat to the vast majority.

I fear, though, that the majority of minds have been permanently altered so that most would now would struggle to even read all of this article; let alone accept living with the questioning uncertanties and empathy it demands.

Very interesting article. Terrible that the woman lost her job.

It reminds me of something I read on Moor Larkin's blog recently. He isn't clear, though, about whether the person in question worked for the BBC.

Some weeks ago I had a minor contretemps with a fellow on Twitter. I know he was a fellow because in due course I tracked him to a BBC website, extolling the benefits of the nation coming together for Covid and the NHS. He entered my Timeline astounded that somebody would be "defending" the arch-paedophile and sex abuser, Jimmy Savile. In trying to correct this impression, I made my usual attempt to suggest that I was doing no such thing, since to defend an arch-paedophile and sex abuser would be a fairly abhorrent thing to do unless you were an arch-liberalist type of person who wanted freedom for all, or a religious person, who believed that it's God's job to judge and ours to offer our other cheek for a good slapping... but .... I am neither of those. Anyhow, needless to say, the person I was talking to, who seemed to actually see themselves as possibly both of the foregoing, was convinced I was either evil or insane, or that one had led to the other in my case. To demonstrate his generous nature, he said he would read my Blog to see if anything I said had resonance, to demonstrate his liberally-minded kindness. He evidently read one of my then recent Posts exploring an old news article from 1978 wherein Jimmy was profiled by a journalist of the day. Shortly after, he came back to my Timeline, dismissed this offering as a journalistic "puff-piece" of the time, and then blocked me. So that was the end of that.

jimcannotfixthis.blogspot.com/2021/07/fete-accompli.html