Lots and lots of good news....

22 October 2012

... so what went wrong last week....

Unemployment down, employment up, strengthening indications of economic recovery, election pledge fulfilled (McKinnon - rightly or wrongly...), improved (in fact best ever) NHS waiting list times and even crime down......

...And yet - nothing but poor headlines for the government. Why?

It can only be the media focus on trivia rather than on what really matters.

Mitchell may well be an obnoxious git, he may or may not have said what he said to the police, but so what? It is hardly earth shattering news that affects our lives. Besides the job of Chief Whip needs a nasty little man to get done properly so he was a round peg in a round hole. Now he is gone and Cameron now has a 'safe pair of hands' in the Chief Whip's role.

Then, of course, there is something dysfunctional about the government's news handling.... but again so what? They botch some announcement and it needs clarification.... That is not going to make worse or improve the real problems this nation faces.

Finally we are seeing some real positive results from government policy coming through and, hopefully, this should be reinforced this week when growth numbers are announced. Sad that we have to be side tracked into trivia. But then good news is no news and when there is lots of good news around that is when the media prefer trivia. But, in a way, this all outlines the usual problem Conservative governments always have, media and news presentation. They do need to get a grip on this or their achievements will not be properly acknowledged.

Guest 710 wrote:
Mitchell certainly said what he said, " he may or may not have said what he said", attention to detail never goes amiss.
Dave, you allude, is a man of his word...then again words are only words?
" the usual problem Conservative governments always have, media and news presentation"
Ever blaming the messenger, do you mean Barry?
" But then good news is no news and when there is lots of good news around that is when the media prefer trivia"
I have been pondering the issue of 'motes and beams' lately only to be stopped in my tracks on seeing the following sage comment of some antiquity, (from a fairy conservative source)

''The wicked man easily suspects the virtue of others; as those who have vertigo believe that everything is turning around them.''

~St. Ignatius of Loyola
Guest 725 wrote:
A.M.D.G. Tom.
Guest 710 wrote:
...inque hominum salutem, Philip.

[ salvation of man]
Guest 725 wrote:
Indeed Tom but at school we were only required to write A.M.D.G in the top left of the page at the beginning of every esaay, mathematics question in fact every piece of work we had to write up.
Don't get me started on the ferula though. A particularly painful punishment which always left bruises on both hands.