Hypocrisy and Irony all rolled into one

It’s was painful to hear Presiding Officer Rosemary Butler talk about another ‘conference’ on finding solutions to the lack of coverage of welsh politics particularly in the London based papers and TV stations over the weekend.

So instead of just calling her a hypocrite for still only seeing the London based papers are the answer and not fully grasping the perilous state of the welsh media and that some radical needs to be taken in Wales to solve a Welsh problem, here’s some free advice for the Presiding Officer, the UK papers will never fully cover welsh politics and current affairs  unless there’s a juicy scandal, they can laugh at Wales, undermine the Welsh Assembly or if there’s some money to be made.

And if that didn't depress you enough the irony is you can bet that the Welsh media will report the conference in full and BBC Wales and ITV Wales will send quite a few journalist to cover it, something it and the rest of the media fail to do with Welsh Government announcements, Ministerial statement, plenary sessions and the work of the Assembly Committees while blaming politicians for not be nearly as interesting as they should be.

Well guess what welsh politics is often dull, but no more than the Scottish, UK and European Parliament’s and yet what happens in Cardiff Bay has a direct impact on lives and voters need to know what's happening even if they disagree.

And there are alternative options for media companies and it would be good to think something other than state intervention will be the answer from the conference, but given the blinkered political outlook of so many of our political class combined with the inability to think creatively and take in board tired and tested alternative ideas it will be another wasted opportunity and more hot air I  fear. 

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