There is a group called The Platters whose hit "The Great Pretender" is an apt description of what I often see in the editorial pages of the Business Daily, especially on matters economic policy where the newspaper unashamedly pretends to take a stance based on knowledge, logic and intellect - and not whim.
It the hit, The Platters croon:
"Oh-oh, yes I'm the great pretender
Pretending that I'm doing well
My need is such I pretend too much
I'm lonely but no one can tell"
It its editorial page today, the Business Daily is evidently miffed (and deservedly so) by the Government's crackdown on media. Its core argument is that the heavy hand on the media is not good for investment.
That is all fine until you read the last three sentences where it asserts:
"Ironically, this is just one of the cases where hasty State action has threatened jobs and enterprises.
From interest caps to anti-gaming war, people with no access to power are sleeping hungry. The government must decide whether ruining the private sector is one of its mandates".
What caught my interest in these sentences is the mention of interest [rate] caps as one of the hasty State actions that threatens jobs and enterprise. Really? Is this a Business Daily editorial?
I had to ask myself these questions because the same newspaper, on the same pages has been playing games that are not so funny.
On June 6, 2017, this is what it had to say: "State should not cave in to pressure to undo rates cap law". I found editorial pretensions and argued as much in a blog post then.
So where is the wisdom suddenly coming from? I would like to proffer an answer. There is a hypothesis that ones level of honesty an level of drunkenness have a positive correlation. The same can be said with the Business Daily and honesty and political siege of its sister or cousin.
And that often makes its editorial pages a platform for intellectual pretence. And The Platters' "The Greatest Pretender" then easily passes for the official mantra for these pages.
What caught my interest in these sentences is the mention of interest [rate] caps as one of the hasty State actions that threatens jobs and enterprise. Really? Is this a Business Daily editorial?
I had to ask myself these questions because the same newspaper, on the same pages has been playing games that are not so funny.
On June 6, 2017, this is what it had to say: "State should not cave in to pressure to undo rates cap law". I found editorial pretensions and argued as much in a blog post then.
So where is the wisdom suddenly coming from? I would like to proffer an answer. There is a hypothesis that ones level of honesty an level of drunkenness have a positive correlation. The same can be said with the Business Daily and honesty and political siege of its sister or cousin.
And that often makes its editorial pages a platform for intellectual pretence. And The Platters' "The Greatest Pretender" then easily passes for the official mantra for these pages.
