On home affairs, every day, all the time, they should be asking politicians why they apply ‘austerity’, saying there is no money, when they want to take things away from people (the winter fuel allowance, for example) and then proudly announce vast sums to be spent on private, profiteering projects such as carbon capture (which is neither the cheapest nor the most efficient way of dealing with carbon).
On world affairs, every day, all the time, they should be asking politicians both where the money is coming from for all the expenditure on weaponry and why they aren’t exerting themselves to prevent wars, which is what most people desperately want them to do, and what international law requires them to do.
And as human beings…
Inside and outside of their most immediate and obvious professional tasks, they should do as the rest of us do, and stand with their colleagues. Journalists are being killed, maimed, harassed and detained in war zones all over the world, particularly in Palestine just now.
The UK is allowing ‘anti-terrorism’ police to abuse UK journalists, and the USA has been manipulating law and practice to repress reporting that doesn’t echo the US narrative. We are hearing next to nothing about this from most UK or US so-called journalists. What is the matter with them?
The very least
No journalist, channel, publication or platform that isn’t doing this should be getting the time of day from any of us. The vast majority of them are watching their colleagues around the world die whilst saying ‘I’m alright, jack,’ and failing in their professional duty.
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Kay Green 