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 Tuesday September 30, 2008 15:07 by Tony Gosling
 Their personal opinions about what is newsworthy and what is not shape the public consciousness right across the land. Announcing a national mainstream media event which is coming to Bristol later this year. Rumour is Daily Mail Editor Paul Dacre will be delivering Sunday's opening speech on the SS Great Britain.
“Bristol is delighted to have been chosen to host this year's Society of Editors' annual conference. Bristol is one of the UK's leading centres for the creative industries, with particular strengths in the print and broadcast media. The sector is worth around £360 million to the local economy, employing 3.7% of our total workforce. We are home to two of the country's leading regional daily newspapers, several lifestyle and specialist trade magazines, the regional news operations of the BBC and ITV and a number of thriving commercial radio stations." |
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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7"you fail to see that you are displaying exactly the attitude that you are criticising. The fact is all you so-called 'independent' journalists are nothing of the sort. You are just bitter old socialists who like nothing better than claiming the moral high ground with all the usual 'Tories are Nazis' etc cliches."
And you fail you see you have out your foot in your face and done exactly the same thing.
And no, you don't have somekind of self-appointed opt out from hypocrisy either.
The point I am making is this ... when the lefties percieve a newspaper as being pro-capitalism, they say it is shoddy journalism etc. But a newspaper being anti-capitalism, by the same reasoning, would also be shoddy journalism. However the lefties never say this and of course, what they want is the EP etc to attack the dreaded businesses. It is not unreasonable for local media to support local business ... and anyway, when the child was hit by the glass at Harvey Nichols, the EP didn't hide it under the carpet. I don't mind anyone's views but I hate it when the left take the stance that unless you support their view it makes you some kind of Nazi, as seen in the lamentable Bristol Blogger.
It is not unreasonable for local media to support local business
Indeed, but Cabot Circus is not what I would call a local business. The owners are London and Birmingham based investment houses who have global investors. The shops are chain stores based/owned by various non-Bristol and non-UK corporations. It is this simplistic approach to news by the mainstream media that fails us all.
.... but these Birmingham people are creating jobs in Bristol. And for that, I see no reason why they shouldn't get some reward for the risk they are taking. What I can't get is that everyone who talks about CAbot Circus/Evening Post/mainstream media, all that stuff, are very clear what we all shouldn't be doing but in fact have no 'real world' answers themselves, ie solutions that would actually work.
@Colin Wood wrote: What I can't get is that everyone who talks about CAbot Circus/Evening Post/mainstream media, all that stuff, are very clear what we all shouldn't be doing but in fact have no 'real world' answers themselves, ie solutions that would actually work.
Irony of ironies, you use IndyMedia to post this comment. The whole point of Bristol IndyMedia is that it is a practical response to a mainstream media which is dominated by corporate interest. Bristol IndyMedia is one of those 'real world' answers that you're talking about!
You see, there are alternative ways of organising ourselves, if we only try. We could just leave the media to the corporations, but we choose not to. So local people take time to hunt out news stories, and post them on this site. People like The Bristol Blogger, or The Evening Post Watch, provide Bristol with an alternative view of what's going on in this city. You might not like what they say, but that's kind of the point - you don't have to! By their presence, they are helping to change the media dynamic of this city. Without them we'd be stuck with a media fixated on a single, corporate message; with them, we have a plethora of opinion with which people can engage.
And that's just the media. There are plenty of other projects, in other areas of life, in which people are organising in new and fairer ways. Look around you!
But you never come up with anything practical or sensible ... it's all about what the corporate world/mainstream media shouldn't be doing. Why not give some new ideas that might actually work? The thing is, all this 'independent' media thing is all claptrap because you all have your own agendas as well. In fact, if anything, I thing the so-called independent media is actually MORE political than the mainstream.
The thing is, all this 'independent' media thing is all claptrap because you all have your own agendas as well. In fact, if anything, I thing the so-called independent media is actually MORE political than the mainstream.
I am not sure of how people get more or less political. How do we measure this? Of course people have agendas - everyone does, Does it make you more or less political if the agenda is hidden for overt? You seem to be suggesting that the mainstream view is less political - but is it? Given that it has since been exposed that the Labour party (who locally pushed though the Cabot Circus development) gets donations from one of the the board of one of the developers and that the Evening Post's Business columnist is a client of Cabot Circus. Is that not more political for being not mentioned? I would say agendas are as much about what you choose to say as what you choose to not say. How much advertising does Cabot Cirucs offer the Post and how might that influence their coverage? There is a political question.