Censoring the news

[Costello]

What is far more of a concern to me is the way our mainstream news is continually censored.

Or the fact that large sections of our media are owned by a small group of powerful people who use their position to push a narrative, or on occasions tell porkies or intrude in peoples lives for no good reason.

Quite so.
An example is 'lead-free petrol' - which was introduced in 1984/5? Long before the internet was switched on - so the research in those days was published in specific journals, or as text books as you're probably aware.
It was claimed that lead additives in fuel were detrimental to 'the environment - causing pollution, death of habitats etc. Research was carried out and, to cut quite a long story short, the lead replacements that were put into the 'lead-free' petrol - namely toluene, o/m/p xylene and other hydrocarbons were potentially worse pollutants. Original catalytic converters could not deal effectively with these.

 

[Squarebear]

Examples would help.

Not doubting you. Just interested.

Just google it - plenty of examples. It sort of ties in with Major R's reply

I've googled. There were none.

If you find any then feel free to add links

 

[Costello]

Just google it - plenty of examples. It sort of ties in with Major R's reply

I've googled. There were none.

If you find any then feel free to add links

There are plenty - as you're well aware

 

[Squarebear]

If I was aware of them then I would have no need to ask, would I?

As things stand you've made an unsubstantiated claim. I've twice invited you to evidence it. Both times you've declined to do so, suggesting I look for it myself or I already know it.

Is that seriously the standard of debate we've reached on here?

 

[Costello]

If I was aware of them then I would have no need to ask, would I?

As things stand you've made an unsubstantiated claim. I've twice invited you to evidence it. Both times you've declined to do so, suggesting I look for it myself or I already know it.

Is that seriously the standard of debate we've reached on here?

That was a quick escalation from a 'wink' emoticon. Keep your wig on Doris :lol:

I'm not on trial here. If you are interested in news items that are not covered by the UK media because they may potentially contradict the British Government's narrative on certain topics then, again, I politely suggest you 'Google' this yourself.

Of course there may be valid reasons why you can't do this
1. You can't type the sentence 'news not covered by mainstream British media' into a search engine because you are too lazy
2. You're idea of a 'debate' is to only do your own research into the part of the argument you're interested in

There could be lots of other reasons. Whatever reason you have pal, I don't really care. I'm too busy to post links - as much as you're too busy to do your own internet search. Hope this helps

 

[Squarebear]

No escalation from me. I was disappointed that you couldn't or wouldn't explain the reasons for your supposition, but life's too short for falling out with strangers on the interweb.

Returning to your original post. To make a statement like

What is far more of a concern to me is the way our mainstream news is continually censored

you must (surely?) have experienced something that's led you to draw this conclusion of continual censorship. I was interested in hearing more. even if it's "I believe BBC Wales give Wrexham FC a disproportionate amount of coverage for reasons x, y, z".

But I absolutely forbid you to post any links

 

[Dr. Winston]

I get what you're saying with drug use (and JB's example is a very good one), but can't see it personally when it comes to drink spiking. Maybe it will encourage other nutters to try it, but the increased awareness of the practice should help scupper their plans. I see it's spurring some venues to put lots of new practices in place to try and deter it.

It's a bit of a double edged sword. I suspect it has both effects. Raising awareness of it happening offers people the chance to protect themselves from it, but no doubt there's a lot of feckwits out there who fancy giving it a go now as a result of the coverage.

 

[K23]

The problem with all issues like these in the media as a whole, is that people range from the most sensible & intelligent you can possibly imagine down to complete and utter fucking idiots and downright evil sickos with everything in between all these people will react in different ways to the same news story and there will never be one unified reaction to anything. Those that react in the worst possible way may be a very small minority but they can still do untold damage to society and individuals. In the USA, some of these reactions may result the all too frequent mass shootings because the means is always there but there are many other possible bad reactions that don't become as newsworthy. I'm sure a news item on drink spiking would prompt many a low life to think it would be worth a shot but as others have said, hopefully it would also make people more aware of the possibility in certain situations and to be more alert.

 

[Longlostjack]

The worst thing ever invented was 24/7 Breaking News.