Media

[Bigjeeze]

Do you think that the media - Radio , Press & Television news should be controlled?

 

I don't mean removing the freedom of speech but a better editorial control. I notice that some news stories that don't appear to interest anyone may be kept running or restarted until the rest of the media pick it up for no obvious reason.

 

Also the way some news is reported exacerbates some situations when a more sensistive storyline might avoid one. I notice that the press have a habit of telling us all how to do things from making bombs to avoiding arrest - all in the name of news reporting. I now know what drugs to buy where to get them and what I shoud pay.

 

We see lots of negative news but never any positive news - Take the NHS for example - if you believe the press it's falling down around our ears - but thats not my experience at all.

 

What do you think?

[adrianf.]

On the subjct of the NHS you are spot on.

2 yaers ago my dad was rushed to hospital with a suspected heart attack but turned out to be an Aorta disection.

So we are told 93% of people die from this but luck and a top class surgeon at the Bristol Royal Infirmary save him after 8 hours on the operating table.

Yes the NHS has its problems like everything in life but thanks to them dad is still here and i cant praise then enough

Like you say you only get to hear the bad things on the TV and in the press.

Edited May 18, 2007 by adrianf

[big_kev]

I can assure you that the NHS is struggling and is only kept afloat by the committment of its staff.

[tiny]

There are arguments for both sides on wether to curb the freedom of the press.

 

I on one hand would love to see the press stopped from printing stories (& Pictures) of stories such as the Fake iraqi getting p155ed on in the back of an army truck a couple of years ago. You know, the story that lead to the resignation of Piers Morgan.

 

And then the recent Iranian hostage situation, all our boys (& Girl) were heroes until they came back home and were villified for selling their stories by those sections of the press that were unable to secure exclusive stories with the more prominent members of the group.

 

I mean, why the F()(K should they not have been allowed to sell their stories? The whole sordid event was in the public domain because of the freedom of our press, this was possibly these individuals only chance to lay down some secure foundations for thier future -