2025-04-25
Can we believe everything that we read in the media?
Can we believe the stuff that we don't read in the media?
Can we believe what the government tells us? Or is there a reason that politicians (and estate agents) reportedly rank lowest in the public mind for being trustworthy?
Should the media join them?
After the Covid exercise where the media slavishly and without any qualms parroted the official lines (lines which completely contradicted all previous official notions of how to deal with a pandemic), many more people are now awake to the fact that something isn't free about our "free press".
Of course many stories are routinely rubbished as being by and for crackpots and "conspiracy theorists" who have an insane paranoia where trust of official pronouncements should be evidenced. Take the UFOlogists for example. The're obviously barmy, but no need to lock them up, we can let them happily chatter amongst themselves in their harmless delusions whilst we mentally pat them on the head and leave them to it.
Until maybe we can't. Then what?
