We are at a crossroads and Brexit has very little to do with it

We are at a crossroads and Brexit has very little to do with it

When we went from analogue to digital connections and digital broadcasting, the options in terms of numbers of channels of communication grew exponentially. The old monopolies were no longer as relevant as they used to be become the coming of digital technology. New generations hardly watch the old television channels or listen to radio broadcasting. They have quite a few newer alternatives to choose from targetting them according to their own personal interests.

We talk about Facebook, Twitter and a few more channels. Well, they might be important in terms of numbers but there are quite a few more choices that can be even better choices in terms of reaching people we want to reach. If you don't like certain media or those running certain media don't like you because of what you think or say or write, then you have a myriad of other choices.

The emphasis put by politicians on certain specific media is not about what people say or write. It is the fear of losing control of what is being said or written. The old censorship tools no longer work and this makes the political classes extremely concerned. So they gather in Parliament or outside Parliament and make speeches about protecting the public when in fact they are only trying to protect themselves. They are struggling and they know it. Morevoer, the old channels that they control are no longer credible. Do you believe everything you hear on the BBC? No. Do you believe everything you hear on SKY News or Channel 4 or ITV? No. You learn to take everything with a pinch of salt knowing that there is a political agenda behind every news programme. Distortion, falsification and misrepresentation are the tools used to brainwash the masses. Demonizing is the strategy to try and stop people from listening to those the mass media don't like.

Forecasts based on old certainties are no longer valid when the said forescasts are issued by people who live in their own bubbles. This is why the political classes and the mass media failed to predict the outcome of the 2016 Referendum on EU Membership. They come up with the most laughable explaination of why they didn't get the result that they expected. They say that is was 'overspending in the campaign'\. They say that it was due to something written on the sides of a bus. They say whatever to try an explain their failure. Well, during the Referendum campaign practically all messages allowed by mass media were about Remain because the BBC, SKY News and others - so called mainstream media - campaigned for Remain. The scaremongering campaign went on and on and on. In spite of all that, Leave won the day.   

Quite a few Members of Parliament couldn't care less about the people who elected them and this is why we ended up with a country that voted Leave and a Parliament that is trying to avoid Brexit.