topqualitybanter

For a slightly different take on things.... http://www.medialens.org/alerts/07/070613_...ez_and_rctv.php

I'm currently renting 'between the commons' and very nice it is too. The prices round here are bonkers. Just a couple for 3 bed terraces, £850,000 http://www.kfh.co.uk/flash/base.html?fromE...t&sType=All £1,250,000 - but it's got a gym so that's okay http://www.kfh.co.uk/flash/base.html?fromE...t&sType=All

Anyone willing to trade their freedom for temporary security deserves neither, and will lose both. Benjamin Franklin

For those who would like a more balanced and informed view of current and past events in latin america I can recommend the latest alert from media lens. (I've no connection). http://www.medialens.org

I'm currently reading an excellent book called "The Guardians Of Power", http://www.medialens.org/bookshop/guardians_of_power.php It's written by the guys at Media Lens, http://www.medialens.org/ It's primarily concerned with foreign policy and the media's, including the so called impartial BBCs, reporting. I think a lot of the arguments could equally be applied to their reporting on the housing market. The thrust of the book covers your point right_freds_dead - "i certainly dont feel its as independent as it should be". The book contains correspondence between the authors and key mainstream journalists. They argue that there doesn't need to be a national media conspiracy.,.... "What Andrew Marr, like others, 'doesn't get' is that dissident arguments do not depend on conspiratorial self-censorship, but on a filter system maintained by free market forces - bottom-line pressures, owner influence, parent company goals and sensitivities, advertiser needs, business friendly government influence and corporate PR 'flak' - which introduce bias by marginalising alternatives, providing incentives to conform and costs for failure to conform" Chomsky - "I don't say you're self censoring. I'm sure you believe everything you're saying. But what I'm saying is, if yo believed something different you wouldn't be sitting where you're sitting" Although these comments are written in relation to foreign policy I'm sure many of these arguments hold across each section of the paper, including property. It's the VI stuff we see. Sorry if I've gone off on one here but reading the book has made by tube journeys fly by and it helps me interpret what would otherwise be frustrating stories "

I'm currently renting in wandsworth and I chucked one of the foxton's "executive looking for a home" letters in the bin only last week. Muppets.