Experience has taught me never to accept anything I read in the papers or see on the TV at face value, and never, under any circumstances to assume that what I am being told is the full and unvarnished truth.
This is even more the case with high profile stories which dominate the news day after day and often week after week.
In much of the West, where truth and honour were once held to be so precious, journalism long ago ceased to be about accurately reporting news and instead has become more about creating a narrative, promoting an agenda or in many cases a means of suppressing or misrepresenting real events.
For that reason, in the current environment, the most appropriate response to anything the news media tells us is to ask three questions:
None of this is exactly topical, in the first case the main suspect is now dead, and his accusers middle aged women, all recalling events in the 1960’s and 70’s. The secondary suspects are old and diminished men, their fame a distant recollection even for their most argent fans, their alleged crimes historical events from another time.
Yes, some were one famous, and yes,if true, this may be a news story, but the main news story?, on every broadcast?, night after night, week after week?. At a time when so much is going on, this is all we hear about?
The second story now appears to have been no story at all but an exercise in massive media fantasy wish fulfilment which fell apart in a mess of lies, false identifications and a flawed liberal, narrative always too eager to accuse rich and powerful white men of heinous acts and exploitation.
The second case has certainly gone very wrong for the BBC, whilst other media outlets, such a s channel four now rush to distance themselves from their earlier breathless reporting of the allegations.
Although under British law, proof of guilt is not predicated upon the number of people who make the same allegation, it does appear there may be some truth to what is said about Jimmy Saville, however, it is now clear that the allegations about poor old Lord MacAlpine are entirely false.
However, even if they has all been true, why were the decades old crimes of dead men and thirty year old allegations against long ago retired politicians the most important news story of the day, for weeks on end, now, all these years later in 2012?
The latest of the allegations may present some clues to what is going on. The, also very dead, heavy set politician Cyril Smith has been posthumously accused of spanking bare bottomed schoolboys during the 1960’s (Such allegations are, of course, all but impossible to prove 50 years later, and in any event according to the Beano, being spanked was an occupational hazard for schoolboys back in the 1960s). Like Jimmy Saville, Mr Smith is no longer here to defend himself, and, therefore, as the matter will never come to court, just about anything can be alleged.
The media claims that the rumours about Smith have been around for years, but that is what we are told about all the accused, and, of course, there are rumours about most public figures, so why have they all come out now?
Cyril Smith, of course, was the member of Parliament for, …. guess where? …. he was MP for Rochdale. Rochdale, of course was in the news earlier this year when a gang of Muslim men were convicted of grooming, raping, abusing and prostituting a large number of under aged white girls. Now isn’t that a coincidence?
Are you starting to get the picture?
There is one very obvious reason that old news and lurid, unproven, and probably unprovable allegations of child abuse by old white men have been dominating the news since September, the media are in search of equivalence.
You can be sure that there are a number of big cases about to hit the courts featuring Muslim males and little white girls, so the press are desperate for news stories about the host community doing the same thing, even very old, and very dubious stories.
Can anyone be in doubt that were a group of immigrants to be found committing acts of cannibalism the main news reports the next day would be about Sawney Bean and the legends of Scottish cannibal clans in 1500 AD.
All this nonsense is the smoke screen which will enable the media to say “look, white men do it too!”
This is even more the case with high profile stories which dominate the news day after day and often week after week.
In much of the West, where truth and honour were once held to be so precious, journalism long ago ceased to be about accurately reporting news and instead has become more about creating a narrative, promoting an agenda or in many cases a means of suppressing or misrepresenting real events.
For that reason, in the current environment, the most appropriate response to anything the news media tells us is to ask three questions:
- Why are they telling me this?
- Is it true?
- What are they seeking to achieve?
None of this is exactly topical, in the first case the main suspect is now dead, and his accusers middle aged women, all recalling events in the 1960’s and 70’s. The secondary suspects are old and diminished men, their fame a distant recollection even for their most argent fans, their alleged crimes historical events from another time.
Yes, some were one famous, and yes,if true, this may be a news story, but the main news story?, on every broadcast?, night after night, week after week?. At a time when so much is going on, this is all we hear about?
The second story now appears to have been no story at all but an exercise in massive media fantasy wish fulfilment which fell apart in a mess of lies, false identifications and a flawed liberal, narrative always too eager to accuse rich and powerful white men of heinous acts and exploitation.
The second case has certainly gone very wrong for the BBC, whilst other media outlets, such a s channel four now rush to distance themselves from their earlier breathless reporting of the allegations.
Although under British law, proof of guilt is not predicated upon the number of people who make the same allegation, it does appear there may be some truth to what is said about Jimmy Saville, however, it is now clear that the allegations about poor old Lord MacAlpine are entirely false.
However, even if they has all been true, why were the decades old crimes of dead men and thirty year old allegations against long ago retired politicians the most important news story of the day, for weeks on end, now, all these years later in 2012?
The latest of the allegations may present some clues to what is going on. The, also very dead, heavy set politician Cyril Smith has been posthumously accused of spanking bare bottomed schoolboys during the 1960’s (Such allegations are, of course, all but impossible to prove 50 years later, and in any event according to the Beano, being spanked was an occupational hazard for schoolboys back in the 1960s). Like Jimmy Saville, Mr Smith is no longer here to defend himself, and, therefore, as the matter will never come to court, just about anything can be alleged.
The media claims that the rumours about Smith have been around for years, but that is what we are told about all the accused, and, of course, there are rumours about most public figures, so why have they all come out now?
Cyril Smith, of course, was the member of Parliament for, …. guess where? …. he was MP for Rochdale. Rochdale, of course was in the news earlier this year when a gang of Muslim men were convicted of grooming, raping, abusing and prostituting a large number of under aged white girls. Now isn’t that a coincidence?
Are you starting to get the picture?
There is one very obvious reason that old news and lurid, unproven, and probably unprovable allegations of child abuse by old white men have been dominating the news since September, the media are in search of equivalence.
You can be sure that there are a number of big cases about to hit the courts featuring Muslim males and little white girls, so the press are desperate for news stories about the host community doing the same thing, even very old, and very dubious stories.
Can anyone be in doubt that were a group of immigrants to be found committing acts of cannibalism the main news reports the next day would be about Sawney Bean and the legends of Scottish cannibal clans in 1500 AD.
All this nonsense is the smoke screen which will enable the media to say “look, white men do it too!”












