Thinking

While I was having the fags and coffee earlier, I looked at the balcony and started thinking about something completely different from what I saw. Current affairs. Not so very long ago we were saturated with reports of atrocities committed by a religious group in the Middle East. Now we see hardly any such reports. What can that mean? Does it mean that the group no longer carries out atrocities, or does it mean that the State broadcaster no longer reports them? One supposes the latter. The broadcaster chooses, for whatever reason, not to tell us. What it does report, however, are such stories as the engagement of an in-law of a member of the royal family, a sob story about a vicious dog that is to be put down, and the usual rubbish about football. Is this really good journalism? Is it fair and unbiased, or towing the Government line, or censoring the news on its own initiative. I suppose we will never know. It does leave one feeling very concerned.