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An Example Of Media Manipulation Of News


We invite visitors to this site to read the following piece from the foreign-owned and Establishment-friendly Wiltshire Gazette and Herald – a publication purporting to be a newspaper.

It refers to a recent election to Corsham Town Council in North Wiltshire where Army veteran, Mike Howson - a man of many years distinguished service to this country (unlike certain press hacks) - stood as the BNP candidate.

Having read the article, which we reproduce in full, we invite readers to speculate on why no list of candidates and their votes has been provided – as is the accepted journalistic norm when reporting on elections.

For those of you who haven’t “twigged” the answer is provided at the foot of this page.

Should we expect anything better from a foreign owned rag? Perhaps not!

Quote: CORSHAM voters turned out in force to keep British National Party candidate Michael Howson out of the town council.Unquote.

Liberal Democrat candidate Isabel Langsford, 51, won Thursday’s by-election, called after the resignation of Coun Jasvir Singh.

Town council chairman Allan Bosley was delighted with the 43 per cent turnout.

He said: “People have turned out because they realise it is their duty to take part in the electoral process and the effort that the candidates put into canvassing also helped.”

Mr Bosley said the turnout was the result of the wake up call given to voters last year when BNP representative Michael Simpkins won a town council seat as the only candidate standing for the Rudloe ward.

He added: “I think there were so many people turning out this year because they wanted to see their favourite candidate in the Corsham seat. There were eight candidates this year, which made more people vote.”

Mr Howson was voted into fifth place with 119 votes.

Mrs Langsford, 51, who works part-time at a dental practice in the town, said she was amazed to find that she had won the seat.

She said: “I was so tired when I found out the results but I was really pleased. I still can’t believe it, it’s like a dream.” The mother-of-three was campaigning with her team of ten Liberal Democrats supporters at 6am on the morning of the elections. They posted leaflets to all 3,864 electors in the Corsham ward.

Mrs Langsford, who lives in Winsley, near Bradford on Avon, said she is passionate about Corsham because of its wealth of small business. Supporting the town’s traders will be one of her priorities.

She said: “I think the town is fantastic because it is one of few places that has still got local stores like the butchers and fruit and vegetable shops that bring people into the town.”

She also vowed to campaign against The Porch Surgery’s plan to move to Rudloe.

She has a busy year ahead with her council work, a third grandchild due next month and a degree course in archaeology due to start in October. She said: “I am looking forward to just taking on board all of the things I need to know as a councillor.
“Working part-time and starting my degree in October gives me a chance to get on board with the council.”

The Answer:

Have a look at what the Gazette & Herald withheld from their report.

Lib-Dem – 676 (40.6%)
Con – 399 (24.0%)
Ind – 172 (10.3%)
Ind – 147 (8.8%)
BNP - 119 (7.3%)
Lab - 92 (5.5%)
Grn - 42 (2.5%)
Ind - 16 (1%)

Yes folks – the unpalatable truth – the BNP’s Mike Howson beat both Labour and the Greens!

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23 comments for “An Example Of Media Manipulation Of News”

  1. What platform were the indies standing on? Did they split the nationalist vote at all?

    Posted by 2i269 | July 11, 2008, 9:25 pm
  2. In response to 2i269 - no the “inds” were genuine independents (well known locals). EUKIP were unable to find a candidate I understand.

    Posted by troubleatmill | July 11, 2008, 9:57 pm
  3. Disgraceful journalism, but what do you expect from some foreign-owned rag. I wouldn’t even use this as toilet paper.

    Posted by Young Derbyshire | July 11, 2008, 10:00 pm
  4. Contradictory MSM messages confuse voters. On the one hand the Mail and Express and Sun are continually, apparently, hammering away at the Islamic danger; but on the other hand their “star” columnists are forever decrying the only Party which has the policies to save the nation. The likes of Littlejohn and Hitchens remind one of the Beatles’ song “Daytripper”….”she’s a big teaser”. They just moan, they have no suggestions as to how we are supposed to get out of this appalling mess. The Trinity Mirror stable of rubbishy rags, national and local, make no pretence of objectivity and treat their readers as though they were 7 years old; the contempt just shines through.

    Consequently the voters are bemused. They are starting to realise that there is an economic and social train wreck coming; but they stare into the approaching lights flip flopping between lib-lab-con factions. It’s a natural thing to go into denial mode and reach for the comfort blanket as peril comes near - but the lib-lab-con version is as much use as a threadbare charity shop blanket at the South Pole. All this will become very, very apparent.

    Posted by Stringbag | July 11, 2008, 10:04 pm
  5. The media - manipulate the news? In Britain? Surely not? That sort of thing only happens in places like Russia, China and Zimbabwe, doesn’t it?

    Posted by Mister J | July 11, 2008, 10:27 pm
  6. I personally think the voters turned out in force to keep labour out.

    Posted by MC SE9 | July 11, 2008, 10:45 pm
  7. For anyone interested in how their TV license jizya is funding anti-British, multi-culti, Islamo-Marxist taqiyya and propaganda, the ‘BIASED BBC’ website at

    http://www.biased-bbc.blogspot.com/

    is well worth a regular visit. There’s some good recent stuff on ethnic packing of ‘Question Time’ audiences, Christ-kickers, Non-Islamic, non-terrorism, and BBC metrosexual hatred of the armed forces.

    Posted by Artorius | July 11, 2008, 10:57 pm
  8. ”Supporting the town’s traders will be one of her priorities”
    I take that to mean fast food restaurant and corner shop owners. Also, I imagine another of her priorities is to enrich the area and make sure it’s nice and multicultural, and crime ridden, and politically correct and…etc.

    Posted by Southron patriot | July 11, 2008, 11:05 pm
  9. So, the turnout was gratifyingly high solely to keep the BNP out of office, says Mr Bosley. Well, in that case, should the low turnout in Wigan and Kirklees be taken by the BNP as a victory of sorts?

    Posted by SheriffofNottingham | July 11, 2008, 11:31 pm
  10. Actually, ALL ‘provincial’ newspapers like this one are having a hard time these days. Readership and sales are dropping year on year as people look elsewhere for their info. Advertising revenue is drying up too. In order to cut costs, cheaper & coarser paper material is now used which means the type-face and photos are blurred and indistinct. There is also a tendency to employ cheaper, female staff, with low educational qualifications.
    So I wouldn’t get too emotional about this reporting. The general decline is country-wide.

    Posted by bernard | July 11, 2008, 11:39 pm
  11. The Labour party have today changed their emblem from a rose to a condom as it more accurately reflects their political stance.
    A condom allows for inflation, halts production, destroys the next generation, protects a bunch of p****s, and gives you a sense of security while you are actually being *****d!
    Can you print this ed?

    -
    With a couple of adjustments, yes-Ed

    Posted by enufalready | July 11, 2008, 11:48 pm
  12. We must all look forward to the day when there is NO foreign ownership of ANY of this country’s institutions and assets. The sheeple will wake up all right, when there is no electricity to run their tellies to feed their TV-soap addiction, and enough of them are homeless, cold and desperately hungry during the coming winter.

    Posted by Noel | July 12, 2008, 12:34 am
  13. The question that has to be asked is why have the media turned their collected backs on freedom, honesty, liberty and truthfulness, why have they become so corrupt and devoid of all integrity? The obvious and clear answer is that they have become part of that corruption, are complicit in it, are at one with it, joined at the wallet with it, and are to all intents and purposes an integral part of the Westminster-Brussels establishment.

    The BBC has given up all pretence at being impartial, openly supporting the Lib/Lab/Con trick’s attempts to undermine the sovereignty of the UK, and actively participates in Westminster’s ongoing destruction of the British as independent and sovereign people. Chapman Pincher wrote in 1981 of a semi-official arrangement between government and the press, whereby certain matters remained suppressed, an arrangement that obviously continues to the present day. With all the accumulated and abundant evidence available to the media, evidence of serious corruption and skulduggery, much of which embraces British MEP’s and MP’s, our supine media looks the other way and refuses to even acknowledge there is a problem. That is exactly what Chapman Pincher described in 1981 the suppression of the truth by the media itself. Thus today we have collusion between government and media to censor the truth, to cover up establishment corruption. There can be no doubt the aim of the global corporate media is the upkeep of the political status-quo, hence the unwarranted lies and distortions constantly thrown at the BNP. Media barons and their boardrooms know them to be lies. Journalists know they are lying when they write or utter those statements. However, media hacks never let the truth get in the way of blatant lies and distortions.

    The aforementioned phonies are owned and controlled by the same mainstream media companies that have been culturally and politically subverting our people for years. And once you understand the major media are owned by a few trans-national companies who, along with our government, fight for a borderless Britain, low wages, mainstream homosexuality, higher taxes, and push consumption like it was a new religion, you’ll see that whether they are from the left or the right, their programming (they don’t call it programming for nothing) all have the same goals.

    Regards, ED Cheshire.

    Posted by ED | July 12, 2008, 6:07 am
  14. The reason the media manipulate & withhold things is that they fear change! People are starting to see the BNP for what they really are. Take the BNP homepage for example: “Meet the real BNP” it says, & there is a picture of normal, everyday people whom you might see on your way to work, or maybe whilst you’re shopping…..not a knuckle-dragging skinhead in sight! The BNP is now like time–it cant be stopped!

    LONG LIVE THE REVOLUTION, THIS WILL GO DOWN IN HISTORY!

    Posted by SimonGB | July 12, 2008, 8:00 am
  15. There is one very big positive aspect to the censorship and manipulation of the news: the BNP website seems to have a greater number of visits and the number of comments seem to grow. See how easy it is to circumvent the experts? The censorship and manipulation experts live in the past.

    ED! Can you tell us how many contributers there are to POST A COMMENT. It must be rather substantial!

    __________
    Not easily. And since all of us are volunteers, the thought of a manual count is a bit daunting. Suffice it to say that it is substantial indeed!–ED.

    Posted by ianpenrhyndd | July 12, 2008, 8:07 am
  16. Noel is right, it will take what IS coming to wake up this nation. People still give Labour their vote after everything that has and is going on, and they still subscribe to the main trades unions which support Labour, I just cant understand them.

    -
    We need tell your friends and colleagues that they need to join SOLIDARITY. No PC, no Labour Party donations–a Trade Union for the British people -Ed

    Posted by JIM GREEN | July 12, 2008, 9:02 am
  17. @ ianpenrhyndd: Call me strange, but I’ve actually been compiling a list of the all the names of contributors over the past few weeks, partly because I was struck by the number of new unrecognised ones, and partly because I liked the names themselves–some of them are very funny, some poetic, some patriotic and some downright honest. At the last count I’ve gathered 315 names, from AgentIron to Young Derbyshire. Hope this answers your query, even at the cost of some self-questioning!!

    Posted by SheriffofNottingham | July 12, 2008, 11:21 am
  18. I know that this is off thread, but what were the results of the three council elections held last Thursday, 10 July? This is the only forum us overseas types can get the results on.

    __________
    Go here:

    http://www.bnp.org.uk/2008/07/bnp-contesting-three-by-elections-today/

    and scroll to the bottom.–Ed.

    Posted by league13 | July 12, 2008, 11:38 am
  19. I love my country and I love this party so, so, so much. It gives me a direction, a hope and a purpose. Yes we are up against the establishment, the media and the uneducated - but we are making clear and steady progress, so stay strong and be resolute - our time is coming. Use all this negativity towards us to make us even more determined. LOVE LIVE ENGLAND - LONG LIVE BRITAIN.

    Ben, London

    PS Ed - respond to me as you NEVER do which is hugely upsetting :)

    …….
    Here ya go. -Ed ;~)

    Hi, Ben. We read everything and take note of peoples concerns.
    Thankyou for your comments. Please continue to post. - Site Ed

    Posted by ben_sw18 | July 12, 2008, 12:06 pm
  20. Artorius, great link to the biased beeb. Love this forum. Very eye opening.

    Posted by Vic | July 12, 2008, 1:50 pm
  21. On the subject of media reporting, may I suggest that news from Norwich of the newly convicted serial child-rapist and Tory Councillor, Stephen Mullins be given pride of place on the front page of the BNP site, rather than hidden away in `regional news`.

    We wouldn’t want to deny the `Party of Family Values` the oxygen of publicity now would we?
    -
    What a hideous brute - Ed

    Posted by CllrLeppert | July 12, 2008, 3:39 pm
  22. This is one of the major challenges the BNP faces in its struggle to win over the British people - finding a media outlet that actually reports, not merely comments, on an item of news. Even the headlines are skewed to instill hysteria in their readership. But as we all know only too well, BNP supporters, the first casualty of any war is TRUTH and make no mistake, a war it is - against the corruption, immorality, greed and disrepect that have grown like Topsy under the New Labour crowd.

    Posted by Ex-pat loyalist | July 13, 2008, 5:34 am
  23. Posted by Dylan | July 13, 2008, 2:55 pm

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