Election Year or Fear!

[Geoff Parkstone]

No idea why you’d say that, but if you ask Google, William Hill or the BBC you’ll get much the same answer and my guess is it’ll be a woman, with Jayne Turton the current favourite.

Happier ‘engaging’ when you talk sense, GP.

Look at our exchange thus far. You’re intent on describing my comments as ‘anti right wing’ but they’re actually about individuals having too much influence over the UK media be they from the Right or the Left.

As it happens, in this instance, the individual concerned, Lord Rothermere, is Right wing. I’ve listed the publications/online sites he exerts enormous influence over and said that I find such a situation unhealthy in any democracy.

The fact is that any media bias in this country is very much in favour of the Right, with only the Guardian and the Mirror providing any sort of print based balance, and yet when the BBC messes up/makes an error the howls of outrage from those on the Right are both vociferous and limitless, including threats from the POTUS on this occasion.

Whereas, in this little microcosm, all we tend to see when it comes to comments on the media, are howls of outrage from yourself and Swale about the terrible actions of the right wing press. Everything seems to be their fault: I swear if you **** your pants on the way home from the pub one night you'd find a way to blame it on the right wing press.

Sauce for the goose, sauce for the gander