Farcical ‘press conferences’ are set up by the Government, with supine journalists uninterested in questioning any of the underlying assumptions behind Government policy. Questioning of the delivery of policy, rather than of the policy itself, is the favourite practice of these so-called journalists; a practice that produces a façade suggesting they hold the Government to account, when in reality they are doing nothing of the sort.
Our broadcasting media seems largely uninterested in scientific views that run contrary to the mainstream notion that COVID is plague-like. Whilst the disease is serious and proportionate measures are needed, the panic around it ever since Spring is unjustified.
