I just had a call from a journalist friend who had put forward a suggestion for a feature on me for a national newspaper - on Genesis and other musical themes, not the sex aspect - and who got the reply "the Editor says we don't write about Jonathan King".

This is not he first time this has happened - indeed, a couple of dozen similar responses have been reported to me, so imagine how wide spread it is.

One of the early ones was from respected writer Philip Norman, who visited me in prison and did a long (and supportive) article for the Sunday Times - which was rejected because it was too positive.

And my friend Keith MacNally who refused to allow the Telegraph magazine to complete a massive cover story on him because they would not include supportive comments by him about me.

It is interesting - not because I resent it; indeed, I expected it - but as confirmation of the quiet censorship in the media. If this exists, how much else is concealed from us?

And how easy it is for the media to reflect just the expected caricature and not the informed detail.

No wonder Government policy is made from headlines, not reality.

And no wonder, as a result, it doesn't work.

Without wishing to suggest you are not at all important in the general scheme of things ( and in music you are )
this shows clearly the following :

If the press refuses to print facts about someone who works in a leisure/entertainment industry - what do the press and media HIDE from us about what goes on in the REAL news about our society and government.

It shows how manipulated we all are - and it reflects badly on our supposedly FREE society how much it is now controlled by media barons who drip feed us mainly lies.

What is very annoying is that intelligent people realise this but the general population just accepts it and even goes along with the lies.

Since the 1990s and the invention of SPIN first by the Tories and then perfected by BLAIR - we have been told a fabricated version of reality by the media.

We are told crime is down - when our experience of it is roaring sirens on the streets 24/7. We are told we are better off - when the rich are getting richer and we all struggle alot more......We are told about evil MUSLIMS when they dont seem to exist....we are told about PAEDOS on every street....when again Most of us have little experience of someone in our family being subjected to a MADDIE or SOHAM event...........

Our lives are being shaped by constant media manipulation and repitiion. That is why they repeat the SAME scare stories week after week. It would be called brainwashing in the olde dayes.

that is indeed..the most appalling censorship.

Guilty or not-you have most certainly done your time..completed your sentence and any attempts to prevent you continuing your life is clearly undeomcratic and against all the principals of law.

Once a person has obtained their freedom-then they should be accorded all the freedoms that all citizens receive.

but that's in a perfect world of course and not one with the extraordinary standards of today.

You probably know an old friend of mine JK..John Blake who once was editor of the People and now a publisher..of extremely sensational books. They're written by East End gangsters..or the Yorkshire Ripper's wife etc..and John being a good promoter gets interviews with them in the tabloids or serious press. Double standards..murder someone and you can come out as a star..like the ex-biker Chopper Reid in Australia..claims to have murdered a dozen criminals and chopped them up..did time for one murder..now a writer of best selling books , always appearing on TV and in the popular media..a hit film about him starring Eric Bana etc etc.

There needs to be laws governing newspapers..they have an important public responsibility but politicians have surrended their power to them.

Not only know him but he published my novel The Booker Prize Winner (ask him for a copy; sadly he has a lot left on his shelves!).

He publishes books by serious writers as well:whistle: