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.
