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Mick Wyatt's avatar

Most people I know still believe that the media give us genuine facts and information, opposing views and different sides of stories (‘why would they lie?’). They are living in a different reality.

As you have proved many times, if someone is given lots of media coverage it is always by design.

I was watching an old episode of Minder yesterday from about 1983. There was a scene where a newspaper journalist and his editor were discussing how to portray Arthur Daley in their article (Arthur had faked his own death to avoid a tax bill). The reporter said they shouldn’t make him out to be a hero for the people, the editor replied ‘we can make him whatever we want’.

Thanks for all your great work 👍🏻

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I think Miri is almost certainly right about Richard D Hall - what she says completely stacks up. (I do wish that someone would encourage UKC not to promote him and his case, which they do from time to time, as they did with Assange, etc. Their news is the only news I watch and I normally find them reliable but they seem to get odd things wrong. But perhaps this is normal? - after all, they are only human!! I hope they are not still 'off' Miri, which was, in my view, a bad sign on their part.) Actually, had it not been for UKC and Miri I wouldn't have even heard of Richard D Hall as I don't read the papers or watch the telly.

As for Madeleine McCann, again I think Miri may well be right - time alone will tell and it will be interesting to see. Again, I hadn't given her a thought all these years until Miri mentioned her.

'If you know their name, they're in the game' seems a pretty good working hypothesis to me. One has to work from something and so far it appears to hold good.

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