Let's have a balanced argument

IT SEEMS there really is corruption in high places, with high profile newspapers publishing unfounded rubbish from the notorious Countryside Alliance.

According to them, hunting is more popular than ever. But how can it be, when hunts are having to be so secretive about their meets?

Of the handful of times I've managed to find the hunt in my area (doing what looks suspiciously like fox hunting) support for it was minimal.

We are supposed to live in a democracy. But when newspaper editors who are supposed to inform the public on the truth instead use their powerful positions to spout propaganda (on behalf of their friends in the CA), then the whole industry stinks.

It will be interesting to see how they report the findings of the latest poll conducted on behalf of IFAW, the RSPCA and LACS, which found that seven out of 10 people in Britain thought hunting with dogs was cruel, and that the ban should stay.

So if we don't see this reported in every so-called intelligent newspaper, we can at least content ourselves with the fact that they are afraid to use it because it damages the Alliance's cause, and because they know we're winning the fight against wildlife cruelty.

By ignoring the findings of this all-important poll, they will have caused a great deal of harm to the newspaper industry in general.

Although there's always been corruption in high places, particularly politics, people are sick of it! They don't want to see it happening in the media.

So let’s have some of those old fashioned values back that my dad used to tell me about.
When the papers reported the truth and stood for decency.

There is nothing decent about the Countryside Alliance. This self-styled organisation has tried every dirty trick in the book in a bid to get their killing foxes for fun back.

Unfortunately we seem to be in a new, even darker age, where cruelty and corruption rule the day.

The public needs the press to be truthful and let’s be honest, truth is worth defending because it helps people and animals.