Is Trevor McDonut a lying git?

I took media studies around 14 years ago (before all these student dossers took it to get a quick A grade) and it defiantly changed the way I watch the news! When I was a kid sitting up the table having tea with Mum, Dad and my brother, as soon as the news came on about doom, gloom and the government, my parents would always discuss it but never in the cynical way that I and many others do today!

Media studies told me (when I was sober enough) to look at the news from other angles. No just to hear what is being said and accept it, but to look at the language being used and to take a closer look at the clips and or graphics used. Why might certain phrases be said, is the story being dumbed down? Is the story really a story or is it something politically motivated or is it even a distraction to another story that's trying to be buried?

Sometimes you listen to a story and at the end of it wonder what the hell it was about, was it actually saying anything? I’ve watched the news a few times and they’ve told me something that seems just like a statement and has no facts or anything to it!

Is the news programme your watching (which is of course unbiased) adding there own particular slant to a story, is it because of who they are siding with, does their boss have a political affiliation or are they owned by a big corporation who have their fingers in any other pies (i.e. Mr. Rupert Murdoch).

If there’s a photo telling one story, lie someone crying about there love life, see if there’s some more pictures showing an alternative, they might be surrounded but paparazzi and that’s upset them instead!

If you want some real ‘media’ fun watch the BBC news then flick over to ITV to see their version! Sometimes they’ll have the same lead story, but is the information the same?

Sometimes in the event of deaths, nobody knows how many people have died so they guess or cover over this factor and it spooky to watch the differences. Or is the information your hearing exactly the same. If it’s about a subject that you know about is it utter bollocks and you know they don’t have a clue what they’re talking about. This has happen recently when they slated Resistance fall of man for massacring people in a church, they just made shit up! And they always seem to get things very wrong when talking about films and computer games but to an outsider who doesn’t know it might seem very shocking or sensationalist as the media grabs for the better and better headlines.

You only have to look at the Madeleine story of recent and how it was reported in the papers to see how odd the media is! I won’t rant too much but the papers contradicted each other constantly and did everything to beat their rivals to information! One paper say’s she’s alive the other she’s dead. At first they support the McCann’s then they trash them! It was a great big farce and now they’ve turned on the Portuguese police!