why don’t you lot jut for once print the truth? I know you will get the sack, but you’ll feel a whole lot better for it.
I remember back in the British Coal Miners Strike in 1984-85 and the nominally Labour paper, the Daily Mirror then owned by a very rich man called Bob Maxwell printed lie after lie about the NUM leadership. The very same Mr Maxwell who ran off with his company’s employee’s pensions reportedly and was supposedly found floating in the Atlantic Ocean off the Canary Islands? Maxwell had been bugging his employees' telephones, illegally, to test their loyalty. Maxwell was the proprietor of what we are supposed to believe is a ‘free press.’ This so called ‘free press’ printed lie after lie about the NUM leader, Arthur Scargill and, to a lesser extent the union's general secretary, Peter Heathfield. This so-called Labour paper, when the chips were down just like the Labour Party in Britain, supported Margaret Thatcher’s attacks on the NUM leadership. The Daily Mirror printed lies about the NUM collecting money from Libya’s Colonel Gadhafi and a supposed trip to Libya by Roger Windsor, the union's CEO and MI5 agent.
Much of the biased reporting against the trade unions continues today, and if anybody has read the stuff about Mick Lynch, General Secretary of the RMT (Rail and Maritime Transport) union, who are presently in dispute they would see correlations between the reporting of the miner’s strike forty years ago and that of today. The last thing any newspaper owner would want is to give militant trade unionism any credibility as it may for one give their own employees ideas about wanting better pay, more freedom, and much more say in their own industry! It was Rupert Murdoch who used the governments anti trade union legislation against his own employees and their union, the NGA (National Graphical Association) at his News International works, Wapping in the later 1980s.
On Sunday morning 28th May 2023, I was watching Laura Kuenssberg’s Sunday Morning Politics Show on which she interviewed then British Health Secretary, Steve Barclay. Laura is usually very impartial and her interview with Mr Barclay was no exception. She asked Barclay about the forty new hospitals he had told the British people the government were going to build. Barclay went, as is the norm, round the houses before not answering any of the interviewer’s points. Much facial acting and hand waving to express himself, but no actual answers. When Laura pointed out that in fact, they were not going to build forty new hospitals at all, he then said; “we will be building extensions on to hospitals to create new facilities.” And when it was suggested that this sounded like; “building a patio on to your house and saying it is a new house”! Mr Barclay then repeated his answer several times about new extensions and never really telling the truth that there are no new hospitals, certainly not forty, as such just a few additions to the old ones. This was objective and fair reporting but Mr Barclay is only a British Minister and people get used to being lied to by such people as this all the time.
On then to interviewing the Russian Ambassador to the UK, Mr Andrei Kelin, now obviously playing to a pre-arranged script. She asked the ambassador about Russian attacks “on civilian targets” and other atrocities the Russians have allegedly carried out in the Ukraine. Fair enough, a reasonable question which the Russian diplomat struggled with, as would Laura with his reply. Without actually addressing the deeds carried out by the Russian army, which are little different apparently to those carried out by the Ukrainian armed forces, including the overtly Nazi Azov regiment, Mr Kelin pointed out that the shooting of “civilians had been going on for nine years prior to February 2022 by the Ukrainian Army in the Donetsk region and Luhansk which have Russian majorities in Eastern Ukraine”. To a large extent she ignored this point asking again about Russian atrocities to which the ambassador repeated his counterclaim which she once again ignored possibly on government instructions. What he was trying to say was the Russians went in as a response to Ukrainian attacks on Russian civilians. Is this true? I know no more than anybody else including those who pretend to. What is true and does give the ambassador's claims some credibility is the presence of the Russian hating Nazis operating in the region.