Why did I write my #PPE thread?

Because I found myself screaming at the tv everytime some smug journalist came on it, pontificating & criticising about a subject, not just that they clearly had no idea about, but that they didn’t show any interest in finding out about either.

Isn’t that what journalism is? To research & find out about a subject so that they can then ask searching questions from a position of knowledge & inform their audience?

Instead all we get is banal & vacuous questioning designed not to inform but to secure a scoop, or gotcha.

But these are the self same journalists who, had this or any government, stockpiled 30,000 ventilators at £20k a pop and a couple of billion quids worth of PPE that had then sat idle for years doing nothing screeched “outrageous waste” “scandal” “resign minister”.

Or, in much the same way, if a government had invested in U.K. PPE manufacturing, spending significantly more than the cheaper Far Eastern imports, they would have been outraged that this scandalous waste was at the expense of frontline treatments & that people died as a result.

The only disgrace here are the journalists themselves & this crisis has shone a light on how low standards in the profession have fallen by.

Obsessed with the trivial they worship the cult of celebrity & are so hopelessly out of touch with the public they claim to speak for.