OI people fucking give it a rest bloody media types....

The last few days I've found myself getting frustrated as someone i care about is being treat like shite in the media for having an opinion.Woe betide you actually have a thought in your head and then dare to extract and articulate it......

Russell Brand wrote a book a very good book. Which i hae actually read from cover to cover. From the reviews i think i may be of the 1% to comment on something that has been read properly....

The other day the #dailyfail on Sunday published a hatchet review which suggested that they read only the acknowledgements properly then skim read the rest for key words they could twist into vitriol. They aren't the only ones though the guardian have been having a 'debate' which has been an excuse for there writers to revert to childish playground insults. Some like the brilliant and engaging Owen Jones have spoke in Russ's defence http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/oct/23/russell-brand-revolution-book-panel-verdict . Then John Crace tried to belittle it by condensing it in simplistic terms focusing on the trivial things in it.... http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/oct/26/revolution-russell-brand-digested

Then there are the people like Tim Stanley of the telegraph he's more like Flat Stanley who attempted humour that sadly he does not possess....  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/11184105/How-Russell-Brand-would-review-Russell-Brands-book.html His imagining of what Russ would say about his own book is contrived and sad trying to emulate a style of someone with a larger intellect is always going to be shite!

People who don't get the book won't ever get it. Within them entrenched is the establishment. They are part of it or at least aspire to be a part. Anyone who rises above there so-called station has to get brought down I've noticed this with quite a few media outlets.

The media can be good, social media is better i listened to Izabella Kaminska from the FT tonight at the Putney debate i didn't totally agree with her. Yes people use social media to promote goods and services and try to brainwash you but it does good to.

What Russ is doing with the #Trews and his book is getting people involved, that is thanks to social media. I've had messages off people who couldn't hae gave a fuck about social/economical problems or politics before Russ brought it to them in a non-patronising and accessible way.

Thank god for writers like Russell Brand, Owen Jones and Naomi Klein ,the occupiers,the triers the people that just want change. Without the people who don't just accept things and question we'd never move forward....