Our fellow-travelling national press

I have just spent some time reading some comments on The Guardian website by one of their established writers.  It is interesting.

This man - I do not care to name him - openly despises the British National Party, the National Front, the English Defence League, and the now-defunct British Freedom Party.  However he does not appear to despise the Labour Party, even after its links to the Paedophile Information Exchange have been widely publicised in the national press.  Here are some examples of his point of view.

Reporting on a demonstration by the BNP, he condemns the police for arresting members of a communist counter-protest after they dared to move out of an area allocated to them by the police.  However this condemnation appears to derive not from any sense of fairness, but rather from a belief that communists should be allowed free rein.  I have known of instances of BNP supporters - and National Front supporters - being harrassed by the police, and yet I do not see the national newspapers offering them any sympathy.

Reporting on the austerity crisis in Greece, he condemns the fact that the political party Golden Dawn organises food banks for Greeks only.  However he does not condemn the mainstream political parties for creating the situation in which people are forced to rely on food banks.

I am British.  If I lived in Greece I would be a foreigner.  I would not object to Golden Dawn or anyone else giving priority to the native population when it comes to helping ordinary people to cope with the evil effects of misrule by evil politicians.

This journalist also praises the communist organisation Hope Not Hate, but does not comment on the inanity of its name.  I am not the first person to point out that hope is the opposite not of hate but of despair.  For me, the name suggests that we should not hate the evil politicians who have ruined the lives of so many ordinary people, but rather we should hope against hope that things will improve if we keep on voting for communist trash.

I never buy a copy of any national newspaper, and neither will I pay to read any of them online.  I hope that every single one of our national newspapers will either start to talk sense or else go out of business.  Maybe one day the people who write for our national newspapers will find themselves relying on food banks.  But whose fault would that be?

This previous post is on a similar theme:
Police and muslims: get real