NEGATIVELY WIRED

IT may seem strange that as someone who writes for a newspaper, I really try not to follow the news. I gave up on Main Stream Media (MSM) a long time ago. I am old enough to remember a time when whatever the BBC said was gospel. OK, so maybe I was misled even then, but I took things at face value in those days.

The whole coverage of the recent ‘pandemic’ finished me off with the MSM. We now know that at all levels they were being persuaded or coerced into a monotonous, pre ­ written and handed down script which ultimately bore little or no resemblance to the truth. Some of us tin hatters were convinced of this from the beginning, but we were tin hatters, after all.

What has happened to me is a rapidly accelerating mistrust in anything I read, watch, or listen to from a wide variety of media sources. I would add into this local news sources paid for from the public purse where lies, intentions, and half truths are presented as facts, done deeds, or reality, when usually, it is more often than not just politicians passing wind.

Have you noticed how politicians can milk an announcement twice a year for four years and at the end of the day their great proposal never sees the light of day? Incompetence or deliberate manipulation? I’ll leave it up to you to decide.

What I really struggle with, though, is the endless amount of ‘bad news’ that is out there. Why is so much bad news reported? Because we are addicted it. Be it earthquakes with associated gruesome pictures, war zones likewise, people killed