Muhammad Haque, commenting on the latest reference [Friday 15 April 2011] by the London EVENING STANDARD to the Tower Hamlets Council's propaganda

QUOTING Muhammad Haque, commenting on the latest reference [Friday 15 April 2011] by the London EVENING STANDARD to the Tower Hamlets Council's propaganda title "East End Lies” in the context of CONDEM Communities Secretary Eric Pickles expressing alleged irritation at Tower Hamlets Council [and some other similarly propaganda-reliant Council bureaucracies] persisting in s spending public cash in the production and distribution of their relevant little pravda!


I have said this many times before. On the evidence of the contents during the past 40 years of the 'independent local newspaper' the 'East London Advertiser' that I have studied, the 'commercial interests' cannot be used as a careeristic argument to protect the title. Or to do the same to any comparable other ones in another London or similar borough. The fact is that the 'independent' 'East London Advertiser' has got to make itself JOURNALISTICALLY indispensable to the public in Tower Hamlets by introducing as a matter of urgency genuine and lasting investigative reporting about and for the people in and of the East London area. Despite its favourable treatment by your title and by a number of Fleet Street titles, as typified in the contributions on the subject as published so far by the Guardian's media writer Roy GREENSLADE, the journalism of the "East London Advertiser" is not appealing to the people in Tower Hamlets in the way that would cross that critical point beyond which the controlling clique on Tower Hamlets Council will be unable to peddle its many excuses for continuing to abuse the public funds for the manufacture and the allegedly free distribution any longer of the antidemocratic and the poverty-creating agenda-serving "East End Lies". The “East London Advertiser” continues to behave as a tame title unsure of the distinction between a needed [but non-existent] democratic environment on the Council and around the other “elected” postholders in the name of the people in the borough of Tower Hamlets and the presence of the borough and its people at the top of the league of deprivation, underachievement and failures! This is why the controlling clique on Tower Hamlets Council can continue to utter banalities such as the ones that it has issued most recently without showing that it recognises the priority for an accountable and truthful Council to be established by the journals that are published in the name of the people here.
Muhammad Haque, London, 16/04/2011 10:29