Reference :- Holy Smokes ! What is going on in the world ?

 Reference :-  How are we supposed to access the news these days ?  

After months shivering in the cold with Seasonal Affective Disorder , the Sky Reply Team emerged eager to start work , only to face disappointment .   We carefully perused weeks of Sky News reporting , looking for something worthy of comment or further analysis , and found NOTHING !     The other mainstream news channels were little better . What is happening ? 

Ken junior is the team member we turn to regarding computers , that  inter-web thing  , and the various incarnations of what is popularly known as the  " social media "  .  He spends a great deal of time looking at his computer , so it is no surprise that he is an expert . 

Anyway , he tells us that these days many folk don't bother watching the news on the tele , or reading  the daily tabloids . He says young folk don't trust the mainstream media .  Ken junior reckons that young folk source their news from "social media " these days .

" Young folk source their news from " social media " these days . "  Ken junior said . 

 " Do they ? " , I said . 

Now, it occurs to me that perhaps a lot of misinformation is spread on these so called "social media" platforms .  I mean , at least we can rely on the honesty and integrity of the mainstream media . The moguls that own the mainstream media and the award winning gazettes didn't get rich by being unprofessional and deliberately spreading propaganda . They take their service to the community seriously .   I gently offered this suggestion to Ken junior . 

" The moguls that own  the mainstream media and the award winning gazettes didn't get rich by being unprofessional and deliberately spreading propaganda . They take their service to the community seriously , you idiot .  " I said . 

Ken junior sighed , clicked away at his lap top computer and then showed me this quote , which read as follows ....... 

" The idea that owners of media organizations regard the practice of journalism as a public service is as outdated as the idea that businesses operate in the interests of a better world . " 

" Who said that ? " , I said 

" The head of News Corp , Lachlan K Murdoch . "  Ken junior said . 

" Never heard of him . " ,  I said 

 Anyway , thinking about it , I might get a computer myself . After all I am pretty handy on a QWERTY keyboard having almost worn the letters off the keys on my trusty Remington typewriter .  

That way I can show Ken junior  ( who is disappointingly naive for his age ) that those independent news reporters on social media are untrustworthy , and only doing it for the money . 

Your comrade ,

 Ken