Starmer-Troops Urging OfCom – ‘Stomp UK Media Diversity?’
My personal eating habits have changed since the onset of the Chinese Virus, simply because it’s faster and easier to use cucumbers, cheese and tomatoes to make salads – which I find I like – than to prepare anything else.
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Still, I relapse now and then.
I bestirred myself and boiled up a couple of packets of instant noodles with potatoes the other day and it was yummy!
But my regular Indonesian visitor, on hearing of my detour from the straight and narrow dietary path, scolded me cheerfully –
‘Karbo terus!’
Non-Stop Carbohydrates!
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So I was thinking of writing about Bojo’s latest Nanny-State venture, his ban on ‘junk-food’ ads….
..Johnson had previously criticised the sugar tax, labelling it a “sin stealth tax”, but is understood to have changed his mind after he was hospitalised with Covid-19 in April. The prime minister is said to blame his own weight issues for contributing to his illness…
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…which says more about Bojo’s infantile inability to control his personal gluttonous urges than anything else, and his evident assumption all other Brits need to be told what to eat, like 5-year-olds.
But I prefer to alert readers to something much of the British media will perhaps have gloated over.
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Read this, then use the link!
We have this leaked letter, arguably proof that Sir Keir Starmer wishes to curb the free press and most notably attack an independent, so-called, media regulator,” said Ashraf Rattansi, host of RT’s Going Underground, referring to the Labour leader.
https://www.rt.com/uk/495679-labour-letter-rt-license-rattansi/
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I often take a look at RT and never know if it will make me smile, or nod approvingly, or explode!
RT’s Sophie Gushes At Foul-Mouthed Un-American!
But unlike Theresa the Bubbler…
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May BANS Media From Media Freedom Conference – Seriously! .
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…I have always defended RT’s right to publish what it pleases!
Hands Off RT! Somebody Should Start A Petition!
..because, as I have noted previously –
– it has done what a BBC report claims it has been ‘attempting’ to do. – ‘position itself as an alternative to mainstream media outlets’ –
RT OK – Some Reasons Why May’s Jackboot Is Misplaced!
It has its own biases, though nothing as all-pervasive as the BBC’s, which for years and years…
…but this year with almost manic escalation…
…has poisoned the air-waves with its partisan prejudice.
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But if you carefully peruse the linked RT report, you will see for yourselves what Labour is up to, eager to collaborate with an un-elected outfit, OfCom, which should have no place in a free society, as a jackboot on the throat of free expression, or at all!
We now have the words of… Starmer’s Shadow Department of Culture, Media, and Sports Secretary in a private letter sent to this independent regulator saying, almost telling her urgently, ‘I need to see you.’
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To do what?
To interfere with an independent regulator?
Devastating.
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If OfCom is holding secret conclaves with censorious Labour busy-bodies like Starmer’s sneaky side-kick, Jo Stevens, it’s no ‘independent regulator!’
Noreen Paterson are discussing. 
Noreen Paterson 9:23 pm on July 24, 2020 Permalink |
Tell me, Ross, how you choose what news to discuss.
This was very interesting to read, but got me wondering.
You jump from your eating tastes to Boris Johnson’s, then completely break with all that and go on to RT.
You ignore important countries for weeks but write about places some of us have barely even heard of.
Is there any pattern to it that I can’t figure out?
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ross1948 12:20 pm on July 25, 2020 Permalink |
Good afternoon, Noreen. Your comments are always welcome, especially as you are articulate and don’t make me overhaul your grammar as others often do.
My apologies for not replying sooner but time-zones matter.
The answer?
Purely random,is how I work.
Sometimes somebody sends me something, or I read something – I read constantly – and it gets me started. Sometimes what I write lies dormant in the pending box for weeks. Then breaking news reminds me to dust it off and use it.
At the moment I am obviously engaged in the war of civilisation V barbarism, BLM being the latter and it being a real threat to all civilised countries.
I’m writing much more about America, because unlike Britain, the USA has a leader who is fighting back.
The larger countries get plenty of attention but the smallest news item in the smallest country will catch my eye if it seems interesting or useful to make a point.
And sometimes, on a sunny day like today, I get fanciful and let my mind roam, thinking of fun ideas that will infuriate undesirables!
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