Political Thoughts - the magazine

This guide is intended to present the key skills to those who want a career in the BBC as a journalist, news reader or current affairs host**. As a post-modern journalist remember that the story is king.  Draw out the differences and conflicts between people because these are the substance of story telling.  Do not get immersed in "the facts".  Remember, the audience does not know these "facts" and will be bored to death by them anyway.  Remember that there is always a "moral high ground", think carefully about which viewpoint is most easy to portray as "saintly" and then either take that position yourself or, in a current affairs program, draw one side towards the saintly and suggest the other side is evil. If you want one side to appear stupid recruit a fool to represent it. This approach can be applied to any reporting and discussion from sport to missing cats and it saves BBC journalists hours of anxious research and structuring of artic...

"... It is through this apparently endless process of racial conflict and compromise that a society can be changed..". Postmodern dream: moral highground found again Postmodernism is the dominant political and media philosophy in the world today. Postmodernism has replaced Marxism and conservatism.  It is the platform from which most journalists write and most political analysts in the media analyse.  Type "postmodern" into Google and you will get millions of results. In the rest of this article I will show that postmodernism leads to an ever changing "consensus morality" in which every year the media tells us how much more moral we have become than the people in the past, how postmodernism is used by amoral corporations and the media and how it has become a political movement at the core of socialism called "postmarxism".  I argue that to anyone with a fixed moral code postmodernism is evil.   Postmodernism was developed by extreme le...