Having recently returned from South America and spent many months exploring the effect that multi billionaire corporations are having on the local indigenous populations and the hypocrisy and subterfuge that the western media espouse when commenting or covering up anti human and anti sustainability policies it is homely to know that it is still happening on my doorstep. Rumours have abound for years that the Dorset Echo, both in south Dorset and in the Bournemouth area, has become an apparatchik for both the Tory party and also billionaire corporations in which profit is the ultimate consideration. Their coverage although mostly inane with the daily dish of catastrophe or criminal activity filling their front pages does occasionally step out and confuse not to mention please even their harshest critics. It would do the locality a social good if the power brokers put their collective minds to it but the insatiable appetite to appease and hype up the local large landowners and the Tory brigands pours a venomous concoction in to what could be a palatable drinking source.
Everyone who has read my column will know that I do not trust Tories or even the vast majority of MP’s as far as I could kick them. They are synonymous with hypocrisy and greed and most of all self preservation. Their promises are to be choked on and their lack of understanding for the poor sods that they victimise at will is beyond question. With the level of apathy in party politics we are not far away (a few generations perhaps) from jettisoning those who seek to line their own pockets and egos. However we could dispel them to history, and probably would have done so already, if it was not for the mainstream media and its role in preserving this farce. The Dorset Echo is but one attempt to dumb down the analysis of reality to a level that de humanises humans and renders many readers as an ignorant sub species. They are then ripe for the aggregated garbage and distractions from real issues that they are fed.
For those who celebrate the connivance of the local and national media you should try to think back to your childhood. I suspect that that the lack of maternal and paternal tactility is the major cause of this glee. Being unloved can have the outcome of wanting hate in everyone else’s lives to compensate for the void in your own. To then give power to these people (it could be you) is irrational at best especially if you were a child that was clutched to the bosom with a parental passion to protect and nurture. Competition, lust for power and status, profit incentives, derivatives of derivatives… are all abstractions to what humanity truly desires. To be wanted and protected; to be fed and watered; to be able to share ideas and to cooperate in their design and application; to enjoy healthy competition that is not to the detriment of others in a malicious or insensitive fashion… all are the cornerstones of human preservation. But to glorify road accidents or pillory young people who have not had it so good; or to celebrate work that is onerous and low paid with many latent consequences for its so called suitors… surely can provide no long term satisfaction.
The latest trick of yesterday’s bog roll is to stalk people on facebook and then use crusty old has beens to turn it in to a story. Apparently the local mayor used the ‘F’ word on HER Home page and this constitutes a front page headline. However, f*****g up people’s minds and seeking out tired old Tories is a crime against the local community and warrants much more publicity than a naughty word on facebook. Apparently their economic status is not the best and advertising is now much less attractive given the transition to online. This is no way an excuse though and does not warrant their disregard for credibility.
The Dorset Echo must reinvent itself for the whole locality and aim to raise their knowledge and esteem and be a credit to its readers and beyond. Or it will disappear (gradually) and so it should. To be overtaken by media that seeks to empower and truly cares that all voices are heard without prejudice is the future.
So Dorset Echo abandon your politician ‘friends’ and stalking social media for a story before we abandon you.
Flora the Implorer
