The Dividing Line
If the broadcast and printed media were your only sources of material for current affairs and news, you might be forgiven in thinking that the upheaval at News Corp was the most important issue of the day.
Yet, while the liberal media and Westminster village continue to absorb themselves with the fantastically important matter of News Corporation’s aborted takeover of BSkyB and supposed phone hacking, those of us still residing in the real world have to contend with the prospect of an Italian debt crisis, as the credit agencies again downgraded the country’s credit status.
Meanwhile, our wise, hardworking MPs have rushed like brain-dead sheep to condemn Murdoch’s various organisations, presumably in the vain hope that it would divert attention away from their own scandals, the most recent of which took place on Tuesday night when the House of Commons kindly donated £9bn of our money (or at the least money borrowed at our expense) to the International Monetary Fund, who, in turn, will pass that money to Greece which will soon default on its debts. Excellent work gentlemen. Well done.
Thus, the divide between the political class and electorate widens ever further, and yet more of our money is poured down the drain. In all probability, once the liberal media has given up flogging the Murdoch horse, they will return to the ‘nasty cuts’ agenda, blissfully unaware that their world is collapsing around them.
