Coming from someone who appears to think "Q" is real?

You are having a laugh!

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It tends to.

However, how far it's known to the masses can be controlled.

The media control the megaphone just as they shape the attitudes of their demographics.

The idea of a 'free press' was always a bit of a myth...because he who pays the piper calls the tune....Still there use to be more independent journalists around in the past....that is definite.

I look to alternative media myself, though I recognise that it also has its issues.

Edited by Stirlingsays (19 May 2021 10.48am)

'Who are you and how did you get in here? I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.' (Leslie Nielsen)

You'll be telling me Santa's not real next.

Red and Blue Army!

Newspapers always like a good story that helps circulation irrespective of where it comes from. I have a friend, now retired, who was a senior journalist for the Mail and previous to that at the Express. I am sure you would agree neither could be described as left wing papers.

We have been friends for a very long time and when, in 1968, Powell made his "Rivers of Blood" speech the first conspiracy theory I can recall began to circulate. No social media back then, so this was all bar-room chatter. The story was that Powell was involved with some Army Generals and was planning to march to Westminster supported by tanks and take over Parliament. It seems this was widely believed.

I lived near a military base at the time and the pub I used was frequented by personnel from the base. I picked up on some gossip from them which seemed to support the theory and passed it on to my friend. He was all over it in an instant, trying to find something they could publish. No suggestion at all that it would be suppressed in any way.

So I do think that anything really genuine will find a way onto the public square and if it doesn't, it is almost certainly just a fanciful theory being promulgated either as mischief or for more sinister reasons.

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Of course it is!

It's all just a Witch hunt, isn't it?

The problem being when the target is so obviously a witch you don't have to hunt too hard.

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I posted a couple of jokes in a row. If you can't plaster on a smile and need to launch back after a yellow with the usual crap attitude, I'll remind you that mods previously had to remove multiple 'Philippines' themed type posts of yours about Wisbech. Posts that were ludicrous lies only posted due to hatred of an elderly cancer sufferer. So talk of misinformation falls closer to home I believe.

Edited by BlueJay (19 May 2021 12.23pm)