Hive Mentality Strangles Diversity of reporting

A similarity in background and education of those employed in the mainstream or legacy media has caused an inevitable and unchallenged slant in the sector’s output and this progressive partisan emphasis is most evident in public broadcasting.

Ironically for a vocational category stridently identifying as professional this quest often manifests itself in below-stairs attitudes.

This includes the Fleet Street concealing the cause of Boris Johnson’s demonstrable state of distraction while prime minister confronting his own Churchillian appointment with destiny.

Johnson in No 10 was distracted leaving his wife and entering into a new and modern marriage and now coping in his later middle age with disturbed nights caused by the couple immediately embarking upon parenthood.

All this is pruriently brushed underneath the nursery carpet along with the associated conversion of the roast beef of Olde England barrel chested Johnson to a COP-clutching, diet conscience Guardianesque caricature of his former self.

Across the Atlantic there was a similar hive mind response to the role played during the Biden presidency by Dr Jill Biden. Even though there is the precedent of presidential spouse Edith Woodrow Wilson assuming a dominant role in the governance of the United States while their husband was incapacitated

There is the legacy media spiteful refusal to refer to Donald Trump as half British through his Scots mother.

Politically correct press pack politesse reticence is the tip of an iceberg of a shared long form industrial scale collaboration.

The anti-coal common cause spearheads the legacy’s determination to ingratiate itself with the great and the good throughout the entire Anglosphere regardless of the consequences to everyday people such as its readers and viewers.

Coal we suddenly learn is so precious that the British government intends to revive World War 11 convoys in order to protect inward shipments required to save Britain’s last and strategically vital steelmaker at Scunthorpe

The sole steelmaker is itself a casualty of the world’s highest electricity prices traceable to an institutionalised dismissal of coal, a campaign in which the press actively collaborates.

With most of the media operatives basking in the abstract value of arts qualifications they remain collectively unaware of coal’s contribution to the economy much beyond energy and perhaps cement and steel.

Coal for example is integral to numerous products in their bathrooms in the form of their lotions and cosmetics and toothpaste, and also in things like the outfits they wear such as nylon.

Former Australian prime minister Scott Morrison (pictured) in a jut-jawed brandishing of a chunk of coal during a full Canberra session dared anyone inside or outside parliament to reveal that they were frightened by even the sight of the piece of carbon.

Morrison was elected federal prime minister as the champion of exactly this kind of defiance.

In office Morrison progressively prevaricated and hesitated over coal the abandonment of which sent soaring the precise federal-wide electricity costs he was specifically elected to subdue.

Instead he became visibly enmeshed in the legacy’s own ritual preoccupation over the climate and victim-oppressor catalogue.

The homogeneity of attitude that now threads its way through the press is the inevitable result of the shared drive to recruit staff from a narrow middle class background.

Overlooked too is the way in which the press pack self-defeating perfect harmony on minerals such as coal chimes with the same activist progressive emphasis by its competition which is social media so rapidly eroding the legacy’s own dwindling status.

In refusing to employ those from trade or craft backgrounds or indeed anything manual at all the legacy consciously demonstrates a unified determination not to report the facts but to classify itself as a profession and one that ranks alongside the traditional version such as doctors and lawyers.

Chauvin Personifies Instability from protected collective superior hysteria

Derek Chauvin was a member of the Minneapolis Police Department and in his career he received two medals of valour and two commendation medals.

Derek Chauvin introduces a new emphasis on chauvinism because he became and remains a living example of how the modern influence class especially in its politico media form unquestioningly unites and in a single voice will install as a scapegoat even someone who was doing the duty society expected of him

The mainstream conservative and progressive media on this occasion both join hands by always presaging Chauvin’s name with the title of murderer.

Such is their compulsion to be seen as conforming to the approved theme that the journalistic sphere in its desire to be accepted fails to see that in their unquestioning attitudinal harmony they reprise Napoleon’s fanatical booster Nicolas Chauvin.

Their shrill modern chauvinistic horror is of breaking polite society ranks and expressing an independent opinion.

In the new Minneapolis version of a Chauvin case the entire spectrum of western institutional media in lockstep choruses the approved song book on the victim-oppressor theme ignoring anything centred on public safety.

An old style front-line cop who insisted on engaging with criminals Derek Chauvin (pictured) not a big man in fact quite small for a front line policeman apprehended and restrained the violent career criminal George Floyd

No single element of this quite new opinion moulding class declares or even hints that officer Chauvin’s actions were made in the course of seeking to protect this very class and the working public that sustain this privileged class.

In the communal insistence on always describing Chauvin as a murderer instead of someone who was trying to the job that the community had employed him to do we find the fulfilment of René Girard's Mimetic theory.

This holds that scapegoats are individuals who are instinctively chosen by a community to bear the blame for social crises and conflicts.

In Gerard’s theory this community in arbitrarily implementing the scapegoat mechanism seeks a cause for all the conflict it can pin on the scapegoat.

It now collectively projects its desire for vengeance onto the chosen victim, who is then blamed for causing all the trouble and who is expelled from society such as the permanently incarcerated modern Chauvin, the Minneapolis law enforcer.

This concert of confected outrage aimed at the contemporary Chauvin suddenly became supercharged.

Elected representatives from the White House downward in pledging to uphold public safety now joined in a chorus about the need to disable the police force through “defunding” it.

An exonerating luxury belief system, a superior hysteria, can also threaten external security. NATO for example quite simply stood by passively as its members reinforced the enemy the pact was organised to defend itself against.

A legacy media supposed to expose exactly this kind of mass wishful thinking was itself hopelessly captivated by the dominant polite society suite of ethical beliefs.

It fawned over someone they now described as the “Mother” of Europe and the way in which Angela Merkel for so long and for political expediency compromised in order to stay in office the security of this same Europe and thus NATO by indulging fringe aesthetic luxury beliefs.

Ukraine even exceeds Pearl Harbour in the false security stakes.

There had been the prelude to disaster only years before in which Russia had successfully annexed Crimea knowing that Allied wishful thinking would allow Russia to get away with it.

The way in which superior hysteria cancels out unpleasant facts unbelievably is still dominant in NATO now.

Britain’s government refuses for instance to acknowledge the vulnerability of its undersea power lines to the new generation Russian pipeline and cable cutters.

Under the influence of its dogmatic yet avant-garde government along with its captive media Britain doggedly adheres to eliminating its traditional but non-U power sources and thus knowingly places Britain’s national security firmly in the hands of its sworn enemy.