Originally Posted by Chrysalis

nothing to do with paranoia martyh, its just blatantly obvious instead.

The bbc themselves have told me certian stories dont get published as they not in the public interest in their own words, of course the bbc dont have to worry about paper sales so for them its nothing to do with if it sells papers or not.

The facts are senior ministers will have direct lines to journalists and probably editors, there is probably arrangements between the 2, and on top of this papers will have their own political agendas as well eg. some will be pro left wing and others pro right wing.

Its probably a #1 rule when in government to have papers and tv news on side otherwise if they go against you then the people will be against you as well as the public are suckers for believing what they told. This is an obvious downside of democracy in that you have to worry what the people think of you and in turn you have to worry what the media think of you as the media controls the public. So the naivety is on your side if you think there is no relationship between media and government with them both fully independent of each other.

Its not just papers as well, its documentaries and soaps like eastenders which are also used for propoganda.