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[poliphilo]

What's the point of newspapers if they don't give you the news? Increasingly I find I'm turning to the Internet to learn what's really going on- as opposed to what the mouthpieces of the rich and powerful would like us to believe is going on. 

Take the Savile affair. There's a mass of information out there that the papers won't publish. The name of the top Tory child abuser is only a click away. 

Comments

[steepholm.livejournal.com]

I know I'm being very dim, but I haven't been able to find that click! I've googled a few relevant words (or so it seemed to me), only to get a lot of pages telling me that Newsnight refused to reveal it. To begin with I was only mildly curious ina work-displacement kind of way, but now I'm frustrated!

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

As one of my friends pointed out yesterday there's a very jolly Irish folk song about navvies called McAlpine's Fusiliers.

[steepholm.livejournal.com]

Why, and so there is! Thank you, I'm humming it now.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Catchy, innit!

[michaleen.livejournal.com]

Thank you, sir. We're seeing the same thing.

Oh, how I want to see this one go boom! So many scores to settle on so many levels and the Servant is a good place to start.

Too bad you can't display their heads on Tower Bridge, anymore.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I don't see how they can keep the lid on this time. The pressure is too great. Maybe they'll throw someone to the wolves and hope that slows down the pursuers.

[michaleen.livejournal.com]

That, I fear, might only make things worse. Blood in the water, that sort of thing. Any act of desperation is an admission of weakness.

Is it wrong to mix metaphors with the post to which one replies, I wonder?

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

The more the merrier.