(i posted this comment at (rightwing) kiwiblog..)
a major reason why key is still popular..
..is because the mainstream media are once again proving to be an abject failure in their reporting/warning of the realities that we face..
it is just the same as the run-up to the election..
where..in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary..
the mainstream media..to a man/woman..just parrotted the line of bullshit run by all the main parties..
that ‘the recession will be over after xmas’…
remember that..?
how everyone was in lock-step..
and here..now..one year later..we have them doing the same thing all over again..
this time peddling the ‘reassure-the-punters-myth’..
that once again..’the recession is over’..
reality check:..it is just beginning..this ‘great recession’..
and i know their are conscious efforts to ignore the many warnings/analysis i post on whoar..
but f.f.s..!
has anyone in the media got a fucken functioning brain..?
do they fucken read/investigate anymore than parroting press-releases..?
a particularly telling/potent moment in the validectory speech from bradford..
was where she looked over at national..and openly laughed at any possible beliefs in ‘green shoots’ in the economy..
she was adamant a major crash is coming/in process..
and really..all this happy-clappy/recession-is-over bullshit..
is just that..
and come twelve months from now..
i’ll bet ‘a pound to a pinch of rightwing bullshit’..
that the tenor/tone of the ’round-ups’..then..
will be the direct opposite of this ’sunny-side-up’ coin..
