Hard Times

Is the media talking us all into a doom loop ?
Clearly times are hard, and the economic woes bestting the world are indeed severe and unprecedented… however the media seems completely determined to make it even worse. I listened to a radio 4 interview recently, where the presenter was interviewing the MD of a retail business that had just published positive results for the third quarter. The interviewer asked ” these results only represent the first three quarters, the 4th quarter is likely to be bad isn’t it ?” Why couldn’t they ask a more positive question, such as, “what have you done differently to produce such positive results against a difficult climate?”
Its well know that the media decide on the story, (usually the most sensational take on any given facts) and then select and position the facts to fit their chosen line.
Normally it could be argued that that this is not ideal, perhaps not enormously ethical, perhaps not great for informed public debate. In the current climate, its much more than that,its acutely dangerous. The fragile world economic system is based on the intangible confidence factor so doom-moungering can and does become a self fulfilling prophesy.
lets have some more positive “spin” please !

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