The following is a letter to insidetime, from issue July 2010
Gutter press carrion crows
With David Cameron and Nick Clegg between them now holding the reins of power at Westminster, wouldn’t it be justice if a law could be passed preventing the semi-pornographic media moguls being allowed to call their rags ‘newspapers’?
In the May issue of Inside Time you headed my contribution: ‘Prisoners, the golden nuggets’. In said letter, I drew attention to the exploitative nature of the prison industry and how the taxpayer is being ripped off. As a result of this submission, I drew unwanted attention from the degenerate Scottish edition of the News of the World (16th May). Enough to say the small piece they carried was the usual verbal bile. It is a Godsend that Inside Time exists as a non-judgemental, non-profit making concern to give prisoners a voice in an open forum.
I differentiate between the brave investigative journalists who travel to such places as war zones, often paying with their lives in their chosen vocation. I salute these journalists and hold them in extremely high esteem; this contrasts diametrically with the carrion crows of the popular tabloids that are beneath contempt; permeating their heavy toxic miasma throughout society; germinating a plague of self-induced idiocy with a perpetual diet of celebrity tittle tattle and other inane rubbish.
In a prison pecking order, setting these muckrakers would find themselves pariahs at the bottom of the hierarchal ladder where they belong.
Prisons are the equaliser of all men where a man is judged not by the baubles he accumulated on the outside. What carries status in prison is ‘courage’ and ‘loyalty’; virtues absent in the hack’s genetic make-up.
Comments about this letter
12/7/2010 Annonymous
But that's their job Brian, to entertain. Were it to provide a healthy diet of unbiased reporting they would most probably go bankrupt.People buy the 'rags' because they demand to be entertained. Now you're finding out how much the public care.
The thing to do if you don't want attention is to keep your head down. Would you have wrote the same article if their response had been favourable?
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