Clicks, hits, views… all for their advertisers. Clickbait headlines to compete with their rivals. Who can make up the biggest lie and get away with it? is the modern challenge.
Across politics and society the corporate media control the narrative and many become victims by believing it.
We have seen in the EU referendum, elections, gossip… in fact across their whole coverage there is little that can be entirely trusted.
Why fuel though?
Because many people love and/or depend upon their vehicles and they are almost all dependent upon fossil fuels delivered by huge corporations. These same corporations work closely with the corporate media and for financial reasons share many of the same values.
As this perceptive commentator states:
‘The media have caused this …’Let’s get real for a minute. Yes the media will basically publish anything for clicks, but the Daily Mail and The Mirror aren’t holding you hostage at gunpoint and forcing you to drive your 90%-full Micra down to the Shell garage, are they?
Herd mentality drove all of us to this, and so herd mentality will snap us all out of it – therein lies the problem. Relying on the British people to ‘do the right and logical thing’ is like choreographing a pack of domestic cats for a full performance of Disney On Ice. It’s simply not going to happen. As a nation a majority of us were easily led on Brexit. As a nation a majority of us are more than happy to give away enough personal details for someone else to apply for a mortgage and an iPhone 13 Pro on contract in our name whenever we do a Facebook quiz called ‘What flavour of crisp are you?’ As a nation a majority of us will happily share a photo of a lost cat in Buenos Aires even though little Pablo was last seen in 2009 and we live in Basildon. It’s time to face the inevitable. We’re beyond help.’
And another:
Be kind. Stop judging people. Stop insulting people’s intelligence. Look deeper…. How many people will complain about people queuing for petrol today, while they themselves are queuing for petrol?
How many will call everyone else queuing for petrol, because they also need it, “sheep” or “idiots”?
Does being ‘awake’ mean it’s ok to judge and spit vitriol at other humans?
We had to go to 4 stations to find 1 serving unleaded fuel, from 1 pump only, that was last Saturday.
There is an issue, not a shortage as such, but an issue with supply, creating a shortage.
Petrol stations are putting their prices up (they’ve been doing this over the last 2 weeks), they foresaw the problem, as did the government who yet again demonstrate their complete incompetence and ability to provide a smoke screen through the media by projecting away from their failings, blaming everyone else and scaremongering the public.
‘Divide and conquer’! The people shouting at other people for not being ‘awake’, for being selfish/idiots/sheep/brainwashed, etc are unwittingly doing exactly what the government want… so who’s the sheep now?
We are no longer part of the EU and can’t expect the same tariffs or flow of resources as before. UK is now a separate island and if we want the same as before we need to pay a premium which the conservatives don’t want to do. It’s no wonder the US is not prioritising us for trade deals. We used to be the gateway to Europe but now we have nothing to offer and europe don’t want to play ball because we left.
The result:
Lack of energy
Lack of fuel
Lack of food.
But hey, people voted Tory, and for Tory Brexit.
Stop being angry with other people, the anger is seriously misplaced. (Jules Dub)
The headlines to affect our behaviour:
In Dorset:
Across the country:
I wonder if Richard Madeley will make a big a noise as he did when picking on environmentalists? Rhetorical question.
And many more examples are out there from across the county and country revealing people responding not to reality but to a corporate media constructed crisis.
No such problems elsewhere though:
Not sure if the BBC did this on purpose to get a story or they just don’t get irony:
‘The BBC sent a reporter called “Phil McCann” to report on fuel shortages. Epic!’
The final point from Neil Howard:
‘So, after seeing the news last night about fuel shortages, I popped in to Tesco at 0530 when I should have been sleeping! I spoke to a very nice tanker driver who was rather informative and told me that the boats carrying fuel are arriving daily at Plymouth, the two depots in Plymouth are extremely well stocked and there is no shortage of drivers. His only concern was news articles misleading the public. He finished by explaining that it is only BP who have issues. Back to bed….’
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