Mersey football battle
When recently re-reading Antony Beevor's gripping and
horrifying account of the Red Army's assault on Berlin in 1945,
it reminded me that there is nothing like conflict to exacerbate
the need to communicate.
Thankfully, because of these battles using tanks, aeroplanes and
bombs, we still have a media which acts as the sphere for these
communications to take place.
Although not perfect, our esteemed 4th estate is a vital
part of our civic society and can be a genuine force for good.
My local paper,
The South Manchester Reporter, recently ran an article
covering a new pressure group's attempts to stop a sports
development on publicly accessible land adjacent to the River
Mersey at Chorlton
Meadows.
Conspiracy theorists would have you believe that the media will
always side with business interests and power in any circumstance.
While the paper is not exactly campaigning with the pressure group,
by providing them with the platform to explain their position, they
do themselves a great deal of credit.
And I for one applaud them.
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