Bloody Nasty People

Oct 20, 2009 11:48

I try to avoid the populist media when ever I can because whenever I do happen to look at it I am confronted by the thoroughly revolting likes of Jordon, or Lilly Allen or Mika banging on about how they’re really misunderstood and that if I only buy their book/record/scent/used brain cell and took the time to appreciate them I’d realise that ( Read more... )

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bluesman October 20 2009, 12:38:35 UTC
Wow...

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bluesman October 20 2009, 12:48:37 UTC
A self-styled intellectual with whom I used to share a house maintained that if someone has extremist views, the media, instead of sensibly ignoring them, give them air time. I think he meant it in the sense that the media think that if you let these feckweasels (to use a pithy Wren-ism) out into the open, they are not a menace any more, they're just another ignorable part of the culture, just another bunch of nitwits ranting to a disinterested society. I disagree: letting them out enables other pillocks to be influenced by them, thereby increasing the number of feckwits in society.

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fencingsculptor October 20 2009, 13:21:55 UTC
It all depends really on whether the unwashed masses are likely to be suckered in buy the BNP's shallow and vile arguements or whether instead the vast majority of the population is mentally well-adjusted, rational and pragmat.....

....Oh Bollocks

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