TELEVISION IS LEADING US TO FASCISM

Today we see television news programmes, supporting law that takes away the core rights of citizens to freedom of assembly, and protesting even something as local to you as protecting your mature woodland where you walk your dogs.

Nothing to do with Covid19, as there is no blanket ban on outdoor protests, confirmed by High Court Judge. 

A lot of convictions under the Covid19 lockdown law have been overturned on appeal. 

Even used to attack NHS nurses protesting the pay cut of just 1 per cent pay rise, when outdoors, socially distanced and masked. 

Widely share my petition, please, so Channel 4 ends being just Tory propaganda, that is leading us down the path to fascism. 

Especially as Labour has entirely vacated its job to hold the government to account, and just cravenly agrees, acting much like the quislings agreeing with Hitler. 

NEW BOOK THAT PROVES MEDIA IS JUST TORY PROPAGANDA

... "In (Peter Oborne's)  searingly honest new book, ‘The Assault on Truth’, Oborne directs his fire at a very specific, crucial target:

‘I have never encountered a senior British politician who lies and fabricates so regularly, so shamelessly and so systematically as Boris Johnson. Or gets away with his deceit with such ease.’ (Peter Oborne, ‘The Assault on Truth – Boris Johnson, Donald Trump and the Emergence of a New Moral Barbarism,’ Simon & Schuster, 2021, p.18)

Oborne is well qualified to comment, having been hired by (Tory Boris) Johnson as his political editor at the Spectator in 2001.

Oborne adds:

‘It has become all but impossible for an honest politician to survive, let alone flourish, in Boris Johnson’s government.’ (p.6)

Oborne’s conclusion:

‘There is irrefutable evidence that Conservative Party lies and distortions in the 2019 election were cynical, systematic and prepared in advance. Johnson’s Conservatives deliberately set out to lie and to cheat their way to victory. The strategy triumphed.’ (p.37)
So how on earth did Johnson get away with it?

‘Britain’s mainstream reporters and editors collectively turned a blind eye to the lies, misrepresentations and falsehoods promoted by Johnson and his ministers.’ (p.7)

But this was only part of the problem:

‘Many senior journalists went a step further. They actively collaborated with Downing Street in order to distribute false information helpful to Johnson’s cause.’ (p.121)

Oborne goes much further:

‘A great deal of political journalism has become the putrid public face of a corrupt government. There is only one good reason to be a journalist: to tell the truth. We should not go into our trade to become passive mouthpieces of politicians and instruments of their power. Too much of the media and political class have merged. The unnatural amalgamation has converted truth into falsehood, while lies have become truth.’ (p.7)

CONCLUSION 

To recap, ‘The Assault on Truth’ makes two key claims:

1) Boris Johnson regularly, systematically and shamefully lies and fabricates, and

2) ‘A great deal of political journalism has become the putrid public face of a corrupt government.’ (p.7)

Oborne’s whole point is that ‘mainstream’ media did not just turn a blind eye; they functioned as fully-supportive parts of Johnson’s lie machine.