It really was a test of how inane and daft our modern media culture has become – with the liberal media (notably the BBC) taking the lead – when the key media actors failed to address, cover and talk about the real issues on the Treaty of Lisbon parliamentary debates.
Yesterday, members of Her Majesty’s Official Opposition attempted to put up another fight inside Parliament with some serious amendments to the Treaty. Was there any visual/written coverage of an acceptable standard on this event that you can find? Don’t bother looking – take it from me, they were not covered.
Sad as it may sound, a handful of opinion-writing semi-sceptical staff from the Telegraph does not count towards any real opposition to the Treaty? The battle was in Parliament. The idle coverage of either Heathrow protesters or the flag-waving referendum campaigners across the news did not bother me in the slightest; the absence of coverage by the national media on the real issues and the real debate did. It is then no surprise that people have not been motivated to act on the issue.
Both the avoidance tactics and the coverage were delusional. If Brown and Labour’s crime has been that they have failed to realise an overwhelming political opposition to the Treaty, then surely most of the British national liberal media must live with their failures to have not actively published one sensible iota which in any way explained to the British people the real and precise problems presented by the Treaty of Lisbon. It was their duty to have armed the British people with this knowledge – and for other organisations, there is even a Charter by which they must abide in order to honour that obligation.
And they say it is this Government that is treating people like fools?