citizenJA wrote:frightful_oik wrote:citizenJA wrote:
What is Owen Jones thinking? What is the man about?
Jones, you write like a Tory troll.
Where have all the voters told you they simply don't believe promises?
More specifically, Jones, where have all the voters told you they don't believe the policies Miliband & the Labour party proposes will be enacted?
Where, Jones?
Finally, what does this even mean????
I still can't see what's wrong with it. This article is basically the chapter - from his book on the establishment- that refers to politicians much abridged. I don't think he's particularly knocking Miliband.
He's merely stating that there's a 'they're all the same' mood abroad in the country. I've certainly seen it. It's much more an attack on our useless media that doesn't allow a sensible debate. We've all said that on here.
(my bold)
Perfectly articulated, exactly. The parts I've put in bold.
You're absolutely right. It's more or less okay toward Miliband; it's not really about Miliband.
Jones' insipid handling of one of the most important issues of the 21st century - peoples' political & social relationship with a heavily remastered media stream coming at us from all directions.
What has Jones' article done to improve the conversation at all?
Where has he even asked readers to think beyond what media produces?
At the risk of pointing out the bleedin' obvious, he's part of the media....what shall we call it? How about 'blob'... which thrives on exactly the sort of cynicism that he's excoriating. There's no way that anyone in the mainstream media will ask people to lift the rocks and look under them; simply to read what Owen Jones has written on the rock and nod sagely.
And that will work very well, even if it is massively hypocritical. The media is there, not to throw light on issues, but to stir up rage in clickbait. Consider your own local paper: what's the proportion of bad news to good? Of detailed analysis to soundbites?
I learned my lesson many years ago: I was in a band and we played in the first outdoor concert of its kind in my then home town, hoping it'd be the first of many such events. Got a reasonable, if slightly small, crowd. So the next day I toddle down to the local rag to file a verbal report, and I'm collared by a hack from said organ. I report the event, pretty much as above, and add that everyone appeared to enjoy themselves. The headline that Thursday? "MAIN EVENT IN JEOPARDY AFTER POOR TURNOUT".
Never trust a fucking hack.