Reply #7: I left Canada out, because I've never been there, and don't [View All]

[Matilda]

have much access to the media, and New Zealand because they've moved
at least to centre left, and seem to have a bit more genuine debate
than we do.

I certainly agree that the politicians for the most part only think
as far ahead as the next election, and therefore think only in the
short term, and all too often in terms of their own glory, and those
lucrative seats on company boards when they retire and get their
payback. My fear is that once Murdoch and co. have got a strangle-
hold on the media, we will never break it. No need for armies and
secret police to stifle dissent, it will just drift away while people
watch TV with their brains asleep.