Glass half full or half empty?
Discussion
The Media generally, have always enjoyed the bad, as opposed to any good, news but recently, the level of doom, gloom and pessimism that has been presented on the BBC & ITV news, has been nothing short of disgraceful!
All aspects of political, social and business life are presented in the worst possible manner with the news presenters almost salivating at the prospect of yet another death, business failure or political flare up.
Times are indeed tougher than they have been but moral would be vastly improved if these media "smugs" stopped talking down the country and took a brighter, more optimistic look at the many success and survival stories that abound!
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All aspects of political, social and business life are presented in the worst possible manner with the news presenters almost salivating at the prospect of yet another death, business failure or political flare up.
Times are indeed tougher than they have been but moral would be vastly improved if these media "smugs" stopped talking down the country and took a brighter, more optimistic look at the many success and survival stories that abound!
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ds!There are some 'half empty' stories that have yet to recevie the attention they deserve.
For obvious reasons (like the BBC are 'part' of the problem and fed news by the cause of it) the gradual " sovietisation" of large parts of the country and the crippling cost of the public sector don't receive anything like attention the scale of the problem warrants.
For obvious reasons (like the BBC are 'part' of the problem and fed news by the cause of it) the gradual " sovietisation" of large parts of the country and the crippling cost of the public sector don't receive anything like attention the scale of the problem warrants.
While the media love a disaster for sales reasons, the truth is that the media have been complicit with NuLabia since the 1990s to the point that much of the population still thinks Gordon was a competent Chancellor and that our current problems are all down to 'those nasty bankers'.
So, no, disagree.
So, no, disagree.
Bad news has always been good news to the media, but it's highlighted by them even more these days. One of my fares is a business editor for one of the media sectors and openly admits this, however, after listening to Theo Paphitis on the radio voicing his concerns about wether this government knows what it is doing, and how dire the situation is, it's left me confused not knowing what to expect. Undecided.
Callan.T89 said:
As an engineer all I can think about is why the glass has been designed twice as big as it needs to be...
I was eductaed as an engineer too but I don't come to the same conclusion as you. I find that it is more a trading standards issue that the glass hasn't been filled to its capacity. 
Murray993 said:
Robert Peston. Say no more.
Isn’t he the one who is Gordon Brown’s biographer, and probable close friend? Also, I’m sure I read that one of the BBC’s flagship political programmes, the Andrew Marr Show, the host is married to a Guardian journalist, who also has very close links with labour.With this in mind, I would guess that things are a lot worse than our ‘Bastion of impartiality and truth’ publicly funded BBC would have us believe.
And remember, they want us all to use the ‘more comfy bus’, rather than the lesser ‘comfy car’… And they also tell us that Saint Gordon will be 'creating' 10,000 public sector jobs! Doing what, exactly - tractor factories, or more idiots employed in complete non jobs on silly saleries whose 'Raison d'etre is to make private sector tax payers lives even more of a misery with even more punative fines or silly taxation based on left wing idealogical reasons.
Yes, I can just see the 'rescue' plan for the ex-Wedgewood factory and workers being announced as the new "state crockery factory".
(An engineering consultant who worked with us a few years ago also did a lot of work for Ikea in Russia. They had these huge old factories where the 'state standard dinner services' were made. Huge factories churning out thousands of tonnes of crockery - very few different products - which, redundant since teh end of teh soviet era, were ripe for use by the bland Swedish chain.)
(An engineering consultant who worked with us a few years ago also did a lot of work for Ikea in Russia. They had these huge old factories where the 'state standard dinner services' were made. Huge factories churning out thousands of tonnes of crockery - very few different products - which, redundant since teh end of teh soviet era, were ripe for use by the bland Swedish chain.)
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