They Insult our Intelligence

from The Occidental Observer, May 24, 2009

One would think that an award-winning journalist writing for a national “quality” newspaper and with access to some of the most eminent personages of the age would be capable of penning an intelligent article about an unconventional politician, providing novel insights and depth of analysis where his lesser peers would have been content with a facile regurgitation of clichés. Unfortunately, we live in an age when, not originality of approach or sophistication of insight, but blind subjection to Freudo-Marxist dogma and crass fealty to the state-sponsored party line are the key to achieving recognition in a journalistic career.

Nigel Farndale’s recent piece for the Daily Telegraph on the launch of the British National Party’s European election manifesto offers yet more evidence — if any was needed — of the vulgar extent to which the mainstream media routinely insult the intelligence of educated readers and seek to manufacture opinion in an effort to perpetuate the existing establishment, of which they are a part and the main organ of communication. . . . More