I ask as this year I have steered clear of the TV if at all possible. I happened to bump into a 30 second clip of Strictly Come Dancing. It took me that long to realise what it was, grab the controller and blip away to the TV Channels timetable. There was nothing on. It was a Saturday night filled with trite! Awful selection of programmes and so I went over to Prime and now suffering adverts despite paying for the service (OK I know they have to subsidise it somehow) watched a few more episodes of a post WW2 documentary about Sea Power and the various ships, U-Boats etc. Entertaining in a strange way - the use of dramatic music and that clipped 1940s American information film accent made it almost unwatchable.
I think that it was the way that the information was delivered that did it for me and so after two episodes I had to do something else. So I did some work for the business.
So dire has terrestrial TV become that it is all but unwatchable and it does not inform, entertain or anything else. I'll cite two other things that should tell me / us all about the problem.
I don't think I saw a single channel that presented President Trump in anything other than a bad light, showed that he was going to lose big time and so on. Then yesterday we were treated on the news (I normally don't watch it but was to lazy to get off my arse and wander away in to the cold Snug area) to a Climate Change piece in Pakistan where glacier melt burst and washed away a village.
I watch alternative media and I could have told you that Trump was ahead in the polls in all the swing states by 4% or more at least a few months before the election. It was pretty much assured after Joe Rogan's three hour marathon with Donald Trump. I saw bits of it and it was like the old TV back again. I understand that too many conditions were sought for the opposition to go on there. The vast majority of people know that the TV and sadly radio are left leaning and give you the news as they see it, not as it is.
So my old bang the drum on climate change. Here's the thing, I watched a lot of key parts of COP29 and once again, there was nothing in it. It's an ineffective talking shop. I said 50,000 people went, I now find out that is closer to 75,000 and they were handed their arsses to them on a plate by the President of Azerbaijan who rightly explained what natural resources are about.
So the BBC are in Pakistan and the first thing was that global climate change was warming the glaciers of which there were thousands but incredibly only in this area so it wasn't global it was local and there was no mention of what the word inter-glacial means. People build close to rivers and when they flood there are consequences. Where these houses were washed away was almost precipitous building on what looked like shale it didn't look solid rock at all.
So at COP29 (they've had 29 years to do something haven't they) what plans did they have to stop this sort of thing? Well nothing for if they stopped it they'd have to stop these junkets for 75,000 people. They were putting forward the insane view that the western world should bankrupt itself for the planet and at the same time redistribute their wealth to the third world. Ideally, let the third world use their resources to build their own economies not withhold their ability to do so and call it progress.
There's so much stuff that they now provide that is not balanced reporting, that you can find more reliable data for. Just dig a little deeper behind the lipstick and makeup and you'll find it but not in radio and TV anymore. Documentaries are all but unwatchable as are many "fact based" programmes as they go whirling off about local weather and call it climate change. Just look at what they are saying. COP29 stating devastating fires in Australia. Remember when that was? Five years ago, so it is an occurrence but there's the lead chairman making this statement which the Aussie, all blinking at each other said, No, that hasn't happened this year. Floods in Spain, Climate Change not mismanagement of river courses and - floods happen and they've happened before and guess what, if you pay a few more dollars on top of the trillions (yes trillions so far) you'll stop it - of course you wont, we live on a planet that's spinning around a huge gravity contained nuclear explosion and the hubris of man to believe they can control the climate is laughable.
TV and radio has made people not think for themselves, not rationalise the arguments, not get to the the data they need to analyse to make a decision based on fact and logic. Instead of giving me the tools to make up my own mind, I am treated as too stupid to do that, they fire their soundbites of information at you to convince you that these things are happening.
There are lots of things that aren't "quite right" going on at the moment. I don't know if things are covered up or deliberately obfuscated but people know that this is happening and what's interesting is that the room isn't being read by the establishment, not at all. Those who have started to make the escape from the Matrix can see it and are asking questions. We are being lied to constantly, fed some "truth" which can now be seen to be completely different. The Trump victor was met with meltdowns of TV commentators and "the public" are starting to wake up to the fact that for months and months we were told that Kamala Harris would comfortably win the election and everyone is surprised she didn't. Our government have been caught lying to us on a number of key issues and slowly, for it takes a while, anger is building. There are other things which are subject to so sort of - I'll call it a cover up for now.
If your national institutions are becoming untrustworthy and they weren't really. Perhaps for a brief period in the 80s and 70s but now, they cover stuff up, look the other way and don't "do their job" and that's because we, as Plebs, aren't allowed to know. It's interesting that this disconnect between the establishment and the general public is happening right under our noses. At what point does the hypocrisy and the lies come out. When they do, what will the public actually do? They are programmed to do nothing as long as the TV and Radio tells them that that is the right thing to do.
As an aside, I wouldn't like to be the person who has made recent decisions to bury pertinent information from the public. When the truth comes out which it eventually will (although quite how long that may take is part of the plan) we will know that those who knew lied and they then purposely kept the truth from us. I wouldn't like to be in their shoes.