Letting off steam and poking at the media
Porky pies – Cockney slang for lies. Everyone tells porkies. I don’t know how many honest profiles there are on CS but I know mine says ‘a few extra pounds’. I should change that but I can’t be arsed, I’m sure I’ll lose that Covid stone any time now. In the meantime I look, so I was told by an acquaintance on Sunday, very healthy.
when an English person says you look very healthy you know you look like a tethered weather balloon. Meh. The “very healthy” option isn’t on the CS dropdown list. Since CS is now dedicated to the activities of the American president, I shall get in my token political comment quickly so that this blog qualifies. All politicians lie. Some call it political necessity. Some apologise. Some pretend they never told the lie in the first place. Meh. The media dedicate a LOT of time to counting the lies told by Ramapoes who runs the country where I once lived, by Boris and indeed Wee Cranky who run the country where I formally lived, by Sánchez in the country where I now live. Wherever you live, I’m sure you have media tracking the honesty of your leaders. Some of you have entire singles websites dedicated to it.
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? Who counts the lies of those who count the lies?
This quote from realclearpolitics.com – the media distorts and misleads, takes statements out of context, treats assumptions as facts and in general seems to want to sow as much rancor and fear as possible.
Yup.
The Harvard Business Review comments that media and government are entwined in a vicious circle of mutual manipulation, mythmaking, and self-interest. The media fails to do what it claims to do, what it should do, and what society expects it to do.
Yup.
Columbia Journalism Review has an article titled the fall, rise, and fall of media trust. They point out that as far back as Washington newspapers were full of lies.
Yup
Etc etc etc
You probably agree, at least about media supporting views other than your own. And yet – we all read this crap. We all argue about this crap as though it was worth argument. We let ourselves be panicked by this crap. Social media, some would argue, is the last uncontaminated source.
I’d love to see 48 hours, just 48 hours, lie-free, across the world, across all forms of media. Nothing but facts, or rumours clearly highlighted as rumours. No whipped up dramas. No inflated twisted biased items. Just facts. Wondered if anyone who has read this far would agree, or if the media are right and most of us WANT the soap opera.
Meanwhile – breaking news – peaceful talks in Southern Spain break down after a visiting English delegate referred to a local Spanish delegate as now looking like a tethered weather balloon
Comments (32)
It's a sin to age now, you have to botox, get fillers done and jaw lifts, I don't see anyone in Hollywood who has not had something done.... they all say it's natural.
My best pal goes to Gym every day and works very hard with weights, she has a great figure and good for her but she walks dogs for two hours daily too and never stops and watches what she eats. Again, I don't want to tell her she is getting too skinny and tired looking ~ not wanting to hurt her. She uses the fillers and botox and that's her business but we all have to get old.
Take care,
Hey Viv!
This'd be a Helluva Great idea for a movie! Start workin' on the screenplay!!
Oh. Wait ...
Never mind ...
Well - I maybe wouldn't dress up. Green bodypaint, tops.
Maybe we should set up a CS team, one person spots an out-and-out porky, we all in the task force complain. Ten or so of us - yeah probably won't help much.
If a friend says 'Have I aged ' I immediately say no, of course not, you look great. Does that make me a liar?
Probably but most people don't really want the truth in many scenarios.
I was happy being myself, it's the bloody doctors that have me getting down a stone... they'll be lucky, it is slow to budge and I felt happier eating cake and bikkies and enjoying life.
I'm pretty happy just now being single for now anyway.
Good Blog.
Before long, if you're public, you'll find your drama pleases lots of people. Ironically the more of a show you put on, the more likely you are to lose the first listeners. Doesn't matter. More where they came from. Our media, world over, have identified their core audiences down to the last button, and a bigger audience which will tune in if there's a good show.
I personally think it a pity nobody agrees that a little straight reporting, where we the recipients are given all the facts and allowed to decide what we think of it, would be amazing. I'm not surprised, of course. The media has it right and will do all your thinking for you, and entertain you in the process, what a BARGAIN.
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Then I noticed the FB contact who posted it was a known T man, very right-wing. The post seemed approving. WTH?
I guess any Americans reading this will know what it is about, something to do with a sign painted in front of Trump Towers and this black lass taking issue and getting a lot of support from the approving right.
I realized then an important fact. You can be any colour you like. You can do any amount of vandalism. The important thing is the way the media presents your case.
Well that's nicely straightforward anyway. Rules can be broken if the cause is right. Wait, and lo, the media will point unto you the right Path of Thought.
THAT's a timesaver.
each to their own, be it dishonest or not...lol
Other than that I've nothing else to say but how do Viv
porkies eh" only sweet ones
Probably does not make sense. Good for you, for getting in shape. !!
Am gonna try the squats and the Jane Fonda one to good music....
B-real makes desperate & shamelessly transparent attempt to fill his InBox. ...
I'm thinkin' 'bout makin' it the Intro Line on my profile ...