Mental Health Warnings

[poliphilo]

I'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.

Comments

[redatt.livejournal.com]

I could support that.

Often when I read an article or watch the news I'm reminded of these Philosophical Warning labels: http://bertc.com/subfour/truth/warninglabels.htm

Cartesian Evil Genius Alert:

The reader is advised that he or she may be subject to an illusion generates by an evil genius, and that his or her "sensory fibers" may be falsely manipulated at any time with neither advance warning nor any possible legal remedy.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

That's good.

[davesmusictank.livejournal.com]

Ooh i like that!