The Guardian Plays "The Only Game in Town"
The Guardian seems to be trumpeting its business-friendly, modern and mainstream Blairite agenda in an increasing number of its articles. This writer displays mild alarm at a psychologist working with an investment bank suggesting that material goods provide only short-term satisfaction.
The City editor takes delight in wondering if there is any point limiting supermarket Tesco’s market share and punishing a successful business, if the only result may be that another supermarket’s market share is likely to increase a little.
Jonathan Porritt, former Friends of the Earth director tells John Vidal that capitalism is the agent of change and “the only game in town.”
And finally, Irwin Steltzer, a writer more at home in the business section of The Sunday Times than The Guardian, graced its pages recently. Known as Rupert Murdoch’s “representative on Earth”, and to have an open door to Number Ten whenever he needs to whisper in the Prime Ministerial ear, Steltzer says we should ask if what Blair is doing “is right for Britain?”
It is particularly patronising when he implies we should be eternally grateful that Blair is “attempting to engineer a massive shift of power from trade unions to consumers, to restore to individuals greater power to control large portions of their own lives.”
If we are all condemned to participate in “the only game in town,” it would seem that The Guardian is increasingly putting the case for the winners.
The City editor takes delight in wondering if there is any point limiting supermarket Tesco’s market share and punishing a successful business, if the only result may be that another supermarket’s market share is likely to increase a little.
Jonathan Porritt, former Friends of the Earth director tells John Vidal that capitalism is the agent of change and “the only game in town.”
And finally, Irwin Steltzer, a writer more at home in the business section of The Sunday Times than The Guardian, graced its pages recently. Known as Rupert Murdoch’s “representative on Earth”, and to have an open door to Number Ten whenever he needs to whisper in the Prime Ministerial ear, Steltzer says we should ask if what Blair is doing “is right for Britain?”
It is particularly patronising when he implies we should be eternally grateful that Blair is “attempting to engineer a massive shift of power from trade unions to consumers, to restore to individuals greater power to control large portions of their own lives.”
If we are all condemned to participate in “the only game in town,” it would seem that The Guardian is increasingly putting the case for the winners.
'It's all about bucks kid, and the rest is just conversation.' - Gordon Gekko in Oliver Stone's film, Wall Street.
posted by John Reynolds at 9:10 a.m.
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