May Day

[Generally Contrary]

I'd like to say that I agree with what longmanshort has to say about local papers.

Several different versions of the same story can all be 'fair and accurate'.  Which is written depends on your point of view and, unfasionable though it may sound, your ideology.  Though we try to divest ourselves of bias, this is extremely difficult, if not impossible.  But so is truely democratizing the media.  I was bandying about obstacles to a truely democratic society, which again is perhaps impossible.  But that doesn't mean, like the objectivity of reporters or the medical paradigm of saving lives, that we shouldn't try.

As a reporter, what do you feel about John Pilger style reporting, or the American model that puts so little contaxt into its stories for fear of being seen as subjective?

[Proudhuff]

Hey, you've got to do what you can, if that is walking up and down with a banner thats more that just shrugging and saying oh well.

History, the real thing , not the crap about queens and kings , who after all were only the mafia of their time, is made up of movements of people and how the rulers have bought them off to protect their (the rulers) vested interest.

Yea, we did dumped the polltax and through that Thatcher, yes the Cal Hab protested worked cause we build the opposition that the Comrades doon south built on, even by the time the Polltax was introduced in Engerland there was a mass nonpayment campaign in Scotland that was making it unworkable. Labour were sh*ting it.
Every mass is made up of individuals, different reasons, and yes DXB every movement attracts some f**K heads, but you can only do what you can do (and live with either now or in the future)having been close to people who have lived under Pinochet and their families hunted by his people we must do everything to stop this happening again and you have to do what you can to stop it again anywhere...


Huffsta,