© Muhammad Haque 2005
1150 Hrs GMT
London Sunday 25 December 2005
This week is being used by the state-approved and in effect the state-licensed media commentators to renew the plugs for loyalty to the agencies of profit big business and their ideological tributaries. Following the line taken by the ‘freedom’ and ‘democracy’-loving ‘newspapers’ of the past 200 years since mass circulation newspapers first became a significant and collective vehicle for organised indoctrination and brainwashing in the way that we find them now, the newspapers and their ‘digital age’ versions including the TV news and factual programmes are carrying on the business of lying and suppression of the truth.
The last week of December and the first three weeks of January each year are devoted to immoral and untruthful p[promotion of profiteering ideology. One sure target hit by the profiteering media assault is the concept of equality which has always been vulnerable to the whims and designs the profit-centric business controllers That vulnerability has become greater in the past decade and is likely to get eve worse as we enter a new calendar year.

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What ‘respectable’ news organisation
suppressed the truth over this season
of goodwill and let any number of kids
shiver in the cold forgotten under bids
for ever more profit conniving to lie
smoothing the ground for newer tie
with an ‘emerging’ set of ‘giant’ ‘nation’
capitalising on daily hunger, low ration
caused by former deals in selfish trade
sealed as the deprived were betrayed
in each unglamorised neighbourhood
grabbed by the globalisers as good
plots for the trade in profit and ferocity
replacing fair play with greed, inegality..”