Mental Health Warnings
Apr. 29th, 2015 11:33 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
poliphiloI'm all for freedom of the press, but maybe newspapers ought to come with warnings (printed across the front page in banner headlines) like those that are now mandatory for cigarette packets.
For example:
This paper is owned by tax exiles and contains Conservative party propaganda
or
This paper is written by and for left-wing people living in Islington
or
This paper is howlingly right-wing and once supported Hitler and Oswald Mosley.
or
This paper is owned by Rupert Murdoch (nuff said)
Most of us buy our newspaper for things other than its political bias; we buy it for the footie or the women's page or the arts coverage or the pictures of celebs- but the bias comes attached- like a virus- and- unless we're extremely self-aware- it'll infect us. I think we should be alerted to the risks we run.
For example:
This paper is owned by tax exiles and contains Conservative party propaganda
or
This paper is written by and for left-wing people living in Islington
or
This paper is howlingly right-wing and once supported Hitler and Oswald Mosley.
or
This paper is owned by Rupert Murdoch (nuff said)
Most of us buy our newspaper for things other than its political bias; we buy it for the footie or the women's page or the arts coverage or the pictures of celebs- but the bias comes attached- like a virus- and- unless we're extremely self-aware- it'll infect us. I think we should be alerted to the risks we run.
