Which is fine, as we don’t care much for him either. Let’s see, here’s a man who’s lies to the country have resulted in an escalation of violence and death in the middle east, telling us about standards of communication. Hmmm. Sanctimonious city or what? Ok, we believe you Tony. Thousands wouldn’t. Millions don’t. Pots, kettles, lights, camera, action.
The article titled “Blair backs new online journalism regulator” ran in the Daily Telegraph. Go HERE to read it direct. Not that you have to as we’ve placed the whole thing, along with Free Press interjections and commentary below.
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Blair backs new online journalism regulator - By George Jones, Political Editor - 13/06/2007
Tony Blair hinted today at new restrictions on internet journalism, saying online news coverage had become “more pernicious and less balanced” than traditional political reporting.
Tony Blair: British media are like ‘a feral beast’
Tony Blair: ‘New forms of media can be even more pernicious’
FREEPRESS: The war of course is on your consciousness and the alternative internet press is gaining momentum against the pathocracy that Blair is a part of. Interestingly it can be easily noted that Mr Blair is “more pernicious and less balanced” and “a feral beast”.
In a farewell lecture on public life, he said that much of the British media behaved like a “feral beast, just tearing people and reputations to bits”.
But he had particularly harsh words for non-traditional media outlets, particularly the internet.
“It used to be thought - and I include myself in this - that help was on the horizon,” he said.
“New forms of communication would provide new outlets to by-pass the increasingly shrill tenor of the traditional media.
“In fact, the new forms can be even more pernicious, less balanced, more intent on the latest conspiracy theory multiplied by five.”
FREEPRESS: Ahh, that old chestnut, the “conspiracy theory”. They’re trotting this one out with ever increasing frequency. Mr Blair I assume is therefore a “coincidental theorist”; of the school that asserts that wars and economic control of populations are just large scale, unforeseen accidents of history.
The emergence of internet-based news and 24-hour television news channels meant reports were “driven by impact”. He said that there was a need for the distinction between news and comment to be reasserted.
FREEPRESS: No, stop it Tony already, you’re too much. You mean that what the BBC puts out is News? But I thought it was simply a platform for introducing the new wolrd order agenda through the hegellian dialectic. I mean, it does stand for the Better Brainwashing Corporation right?
With newspapers increasingly moving online, he said the regulatory systems for papers and TV needed to be revised. Currently they are monitored by separate watchdogs.
“As the technology blurs the distinction between papers and television, it becomes increasingly irrational to have different systems of accountability based on technology that no longer can be differentiated in the old way,” Mr Blair said.
The outgoing Prime Minister said senior figures in public life had now become “totally demoralised” by the completely unbalanced nature of reporting.
FREEPRESS: The demoralisation of senior figures in public life is a good thing. It will enable these figures to more strongly empathise with the people of this country who are also “totally demoralised” by the complete absence of wisdom in Tony Blair.
He conceded that relations had always been fraught, but said the situation now threatened politicians’ “capacity to take the right decisions for the country”.
FREEPRESS: No, stop it Tony. You’re doing it again. Talking shite. But you are funny. Politicians have never had the “capacity to take the right decisions for the country”. It’s not what they do. You don’t. You never have. You’ve set the example and they’ve followed.
The Prime Minister acknowledged that he had “contributed” to the deteriorating situation with the media by “spinning” too much in the early days of New Labour.
”We paid inordinate attention in the early days of New Labour to courting, assuaging, and persuading the media,” Mr Blair said in a speech to Reuters.
”In our own defence, after 18 years of opposition and the, at times, ferocious hostility of parts of the media, it was hard to see any alternative.
”But such an attitude ran the risk of fuelling the trends in communications that I am about to question.”
FREEPRESS: A tremendous example of how psychopaths are unable to keep their condition hidden from view indefinitely. In the end, they are found out. Old Tony seeks to take the pragmatic and high ground all at the same time. He had to use the media that way, but now nobody else should because, gasp, they may undermine Tony and his deluded chums. Good logic there Tony. When do you leave again?
While insisting that he was not complaining about the coverage he gets as Premier, Mr Blair claimed there was less balance in journalism now than 10 years ago.
Mr Blair insisted that there was still a genuine desire for impartial news coverage among the public.
“At present, we are all being dragged down by the way media and public life interact,” Mr Blair said. “I do believe this relationship between public life and media is now damaged in a manner that requires repair.
“The damage saps the country’s confidence and self-belief; it undermines its assessment of itself, its institutions; and above all, it reduces our capacity to take the right decisions, in the right spirit for our future.”
FREEPRESS: He’s at it again. Lying that is. We are not all being dragged down by the media, Tony is. And he don’t like it more no sirreee. The confidence of the country is sapped and eroded by being led by people who lack honesty, transparency and courage in the way they operate. Traits that are all familiar to Mr Blair. It is a truism that the qualities needed to get to the top of a political party are absolutely the last ones needed once you get into power ie, backstabbing, duplicitousness, doing deals with hidden backers, arranging special privelidges for special groups, lack of transparency, egotism, etc etc. Mr Blair, better than any other UK PM, exemplifies this dynamic better than any other predecessor. And for that we should all thank him. His great service to the country has been to use the media in such a way that it has made plain exactly what disservice the PM and his acolytes provide.
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