Monday 19 August 2013

Broadcast Propaganda

This is not Lord Haw-Haw. But it's just sheer self interest. Watch almost any programme on TV about British wildlife -and there's lots to choose from - and at some point you will find a fellow pops up telling us that managed woodland (or heathland or whatever) is just so much better than anything nature can do. A recent BBC TV  programme exemplifies. BBC One is of course directed at those who don't usually think for themselves anyway but have to be led by the managerial clique to accept some pre decided version of reality - always in someone's interests. "Britain's Big Wildlife Revival - Woodland". A man called Rob Penn pops up telling us that our woodlands have "got used to be being managed by us". He tells us that there's something unattractive about unmanaged woodland saying there's "very little light" there and "very little insect life and bird life". So you can't leave it to itself.
The mind truly boggles at this. What did all this nature do before man and specifically managers came along? Think about it.

Would you ever hear this kind of stuff from anyone who did not have a special personal interest in managing? The answer, sadly, is yes you might. A lot of people swallow wholesale anything they hear on the box.

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