Well, after years of gathering the willpower to start a blog i’ve finally done it!
So, for my first post I shall have a little rant about the media and how they seem to make every single situation 100 times worse than it has to be.
Take the current economic climate. Would people have been whipped up into such an anti spending lack-of-trust-of-banks frenzy if it wasn’t for the gentle guiding hand of the media? Would everyone have instantly wanted to pull their money out of Northern Rock if the media had not reported its ‘issues’?
I think not.
After all, it was only a few months ago it seems that we were all about to die of bird flu and the world was about to end… now we are being sunk into a bottomless pit of economic dispair because the media will do almost anything to get a good story. Sure there are issues afoot (primarily greedy bankers doing some rather silly lending) but in my humble opinion they have been made substancially worse by the media banging on about it.
Personally, I think it should be banned - stiring the public into a frenzy for no reason whatsoever bar getting a few extra coins in their coffers.