Re: BSNews correspondence with BBC’s Kirsty Wark on Assange by Alison Banville Archived Message Posted by dovetailjoint on April 14, 2019, 9:34 pm, in reply to "BSNews correspondence with BBC’s Kirsty Wark on Assange by Alison Banville" My contention is that people employed by the BBC and the media in general are similar to cogs in a giant machine. They have to 'fit' otherwise they wouldn't be chosen in the first place. This process requires them, if they want a successful career in the media machine to accept the 'cog' role designated them... without question, because 'cogs' are paid to think too much, but simply to turn properly and not disrupt the movement. What this means is that the 'cogs' have to display a certain level of competence and intelligence, training, in order to function properly; but not too much, because then they might begin to examine and analyse their role and that wouldn't do. Chomsky, for example, or somebody like him, would never in a million years fit, cog-like, into the BBC space alloted to him, not in a million years. One of the great tricks of bourgeois education and society in general has been the way the 'slaves' have been convinced that they aren't slaves at all, but are actually 'Free.' 'Of course I'm free, nobody tell me what to think!' That's because you never move further than the length of the chain and you don't have thoughts that question the limits placed on them. Unfortunately, given the structure of the education and career system, mentioning the existance of these subtle and invisible chains, is tantamount to treason or heresy, and also insults the intelligence of the golden cogs in our bright and whirling media machine. Message Thread: BSNews correspondence with BBC’s Kirsty Wark on Assange by Alison Banville - mike April 14, 2019, 8:08 pm Re: BSNews correspondence with BBC’s Kirsty Wark on Assange by Alison Banville - dovetailjoint April 14, 2019, 9:34 pm 'They have to fit'.. - Shyaku April 15, 2019, 1:41 am Kirsty Wark - scrabb April 15, 2019, 10:26 pm   Searching