How to demolish what you can't answer

You belittle it.

The main media took the best part of 48 hours to comment on that speech, by Dan Hannan in Brussels. By which time people around the world in their hundreds of thousands had seen it. Hannan and others are right to say that the Internet is a real challenge to state media like the BBC who want to broadcast what the government of the day wishes to make known and conceal everything else.

Even if the BBC had been quick off the mark, they would have found it difficult to counteract what spread like a virus. In the end they and channel four had decided that belittlement and disparagement was the tactic to employ. This was the speech of an unknown and therefore not worthy of consideration, on the Politics Show. As Hannan himself pointed out he has been writing articles for the Daily Telegraph for 14 years! Channel 4 news later had a non-meeting of minds between Derek Draper (- can't Labour find anyone better?) and Dan Hannan. The latter seemed to be ready to discuss what had happened, but Draper tried to dismiss it as schoolboy, and full of errors which he did not list or illustrate.

Sneering and smearing seem to be a fault of the left, in which I include the BBC, and I had hoped that Channel 4 was different.

Hannan comes out of this with much credit, and Fox News in the US is clearly impressed. while the BBC and Draper reveal how difficult it is for the left establishment to control the Internet.

Several people have said recently that the Internet is a real challenge to establishments, who control broadcasting and even a so-called free press with various carrots and sticks, but while they are unable to control what is published on the Internet their attempts at propaganda, spin, and concealment will fail. Democracy has acquired a new influence, an unbiased source of information, or at least an alternative source.

Even Dr. Goebels would have struggled to peddle his lies if he had confronted the Internet!