Wandering onto the Grauniad's website to read reviews of SARABAND - latest in the Bergman pantheon I am trawling through. I note their kind offer to submit a review of CONTROL on their "filmblog" page. Half the time the self-appointed mainstream media is having a go at Blogs for doing down investigative journalism et al. The other half of the time they are busy co-opting the new format to prove they are down with the kids. It's symptomatic of the self-regarding cant that suffuses the entirety of the press. They should spend less time bleating about right-wing ranters in the Texas putting them out of business and do some proper investigative journalism instead. The war in Iraq proved how far the fourth estate had become co-opted by the executive and its PR flunkies. If I'm going to get biased rants in the broadsheet press I may as well get it free on-line at blogger. Of course, that's not a solution either. I want thinking journalism. But my government's decided that I don't want to pay for it and the BBC is cutting jobs in factual programming. Eheu, o me miserum.
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