Media Black Out

The media establishment is being very smug in their condemnation of veteran Channel 4 News reader Jon Snow’s comments about the news media black out on Prince Harry going to war. Snow is cousin to famous Swingometer man Peter and part of the comfortable media elite, but thank goodness he has the guts to speak out.

Snow wrote:

"I never thought I’d find myself saying thank God for Drudge (the website that leaked the news of Harry being in Afghanistan).

Editors have been sworn to secrecy over Prince Harry being sent to fight in Afghanistan three months ago.

‘Drudge has blown their cover. One wonders whether viewers will ever want to trust media bosses again. Or perhaps this was a courageous editorial decision to protect this fine young man.

Establishment figure Colonel Jorge Medonca asked what planet Snow was living on, explaining that "the deal with the media has been a pragmatic success."

Well there you have it from the horse’s mouth, it was the establishment manipulating their establishment cronies in the media. An at what cost and for what point. Danger man Prince Harry had an elite SAS squad escorting him in and out of Helmland while he played soldiers. As if our unwarranted presence in Afghanistan wasn’t bad enough in the first place, this stupid stunt has made Britain even more of a terrorist target. But then New Labour and their rich backers need the terrorist threat to replace the fears of communism that used to keep us on our toes, and to justify watching us all the time.

We now hear that Harry's non ginger brother William, having been busy playing soldier and RAF pilot at the tax payer’s expense, is to be commissioned into the Royal Navy and is to sail into a war zone. Royal lovers don’t fret, he won’t be in any danger. He is just playing at enormous expense at a time when the 11,000 British men and women serving in Afghanistan and Iraq are deprived of the necessary equipment that they need for basic safety.

We are sick of hearing about our forces being the Queen’s, they are ours, we pay for them. The Royal like the rest of the upper classes, are stinking rich and they love to play. Royals just wanna have fun, in our view. Meanwhile our youth have, in general, never had less hope of a decent and stable life. The lesson of the Harry fiasco is that it was ill judged and our rulers think it is OK to organise news blackouts. That’s why the establishment doesn’t like the Internet and watches it more closely than it does real criminals.