Express Nonsense

The Daily Express, the news updates of which seem to pour into my inbox several times each day, is persuading me to become a non-subscriber. Not only did it support Parliament’s appalling euthanasia legislation, and take some of the credit for the campaign, but it sent me an email at 20.07 last night entitled:

Britons urged to stockpile amid nuclear fears

The article to which it linked was just a potted history of the public information films and government advice during the Cold War regarding keeping two weeks’ worth of tinned food in the house. Yet its panicky header suggested that we need to do this right now. Big business and the giant supermarkets will benefit from this rush to buy, of course, especially seeing as last month's retail sales were lower than expected, something which the Express again transformed into an alarmist tale of economic meltdown.

I thank God that I no longer have a television licence and no longer read such scare-mongering trash, printed or emailed. Behind every story, there is an agenda; behind every reporter, a bias; behind nearly every news organ, a company board with shareholders to please. Rumours of war are nearly as bad as the news of war. 

Let God be true but every man a liar.

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