I don't do political blogs. However, the whole idea behind this blog when I started was to express my feelings on subjects I would otherwise simply ignore. Knowing that my rant wouldn't really rate well with my peers, I implore you to read it and feel just as annoyed as me!
Okay, it's not a long one, so it won't take too much of your time. It's about the current economy crisis. Now, to begin with, I felt this issue was a slow burner. It didn't really hit me, or even affect me, until quite recently. While I was aware of it, I just chose to ignore things because to be quite honest, being a student it had no effect on me; I still spend the same amount and didn't lose any more money than I usually would. Then I did start thinking about it when places like Zavvi went into administration and Woolworths actually closed down [I have an opinion on Woolworths I might rant about sometime]. It was too in my face to ignore.
So I thought about how it begun, and then I remember my stepfather telling me something one day during the holidays which was this; the media played a huge part in turning this bad situation into a much worse one. Think how much of it had a say on the matter when it first began to garner headlines, and think about how outrageous some of it was. Newspapers like the Sun and the Daily Mail used their usual extreme bold font to make everyone who wasn't braindead completely aware that this was the WORST THING TO HAPPEN IN THE UK EVER! Thanks for that. Instead of just reporting the facts and trying for an optimistic approach which would have been extremely sensible, they exaggerated it to increase their revenue. If there was any justice those outlets responsible for such behaviour would have been the first casualties in this gloomy downhill slide.
And so we get to the reason why I decided to post this today of all days. A headline in at least two newspapers today referenced the following story in such a negative way because of further bad news that occurred in the past 24 hours, including the stock market taking another nose dive. What's the big deal? Well, this woman was clearly either a) trying to kick start a positive reaction in such bad times by suggesting things might be about to turn around for the better or b) noticing something she clearly believed was some small step on the path to recovery. Either of these situations is fine by me. IF she's wrong, the embarrassment would be quite unbearable I imagine but it will be on her head, but what do the papers do? Tear her to pieces and do their best to remind us that, and I'm paraphrasing here, everythings definitely not all right, the country is still going to pieces, and she is definitely completely and utterly wrong! I would like to give a huge middle finger to those papers that led with that story and continued to emphasise in a hyperbolic manner how bad things are. Thanks for that, you just won't quit will you UK print media?
Though I will say that at least my favourite newspapers didn't follow this trend and sensibly buried it away in some section away from the front page, so there is some justice!
Okay, it's not a long one, so it won't take too much of your time. It's about the current economy crisis. Now, to begin with, I felt this issue was a slow burner. It didn't really hit me, or even affect me, until quite recently. While I was aware of it, I just chose to ignore things because to be quite honest, being a student it had no effect on me; I still spend the same amount and didn't lose any more money than I usually would. Then I did start thinking about it when places like Zavvi went into administration and Woolworths actually closed down [I have an opinion on Woolworths I might rant about sometime]. It was too in my face to ignore.
So I thought about how it begun, and then I remember my stepfather telling me something one day during the holidays which was this; the media played a huge part in turning this bad situation into a much worse one. Think how much of it had a say on the matter when it first began to garner headlines, and think about how outrageous some of it was. Newspapers like the Sun and the Daily Mail used their usual extreme bold font to make everyone who wasn't braindead completely aware that this was the WORST THING TO HAPPEN IN THE UK EVER! Thanks for that. Instead of just reporting the facts and trying for an optimistic approach which would have been extremely sensible, they exaggerated it to increase their revenue. If there was any justice those outlets responsible for such behaviour would have been the first casualties in this gloomy downhill slide.
And so we get to the reason why I decided to post this today of all days. A headline in at least two newspapers today referenced the following story in such a negative way because of further bad news that occurred in the past 24 hours, including the stock market taking another nose dive. What's the big deal? Well, this woman was clearly either a) trying to kick start a positive reaction in such bad times by suggesting things might be about to turn around for the better or b) noticing something she clearly believed was some small step on the path to recovery. Either of these situations is fine by me. IF she's wrong, the embarrassment would be quite unbearable I imagine but it will be on her head, but what do the papers do? Tear her to pieces and do their best to remind us that, and I'm paraphrasing here, everythings definitely not all right, the country is still going to pieces, and she is definitely completely and utterly wrong! I would like to give a huge middle finger to those papers that led with that story and continued to emphasise in a hyperbolic manner how bad things are. Thanks for that, you just won't quit will you UK print media?
Though I will say that at least my favourite newspapers didn't follow this trend and sensibly buried it away in some section away from the front page, so there is some justice!
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