Forgot!

How foolish of me, I posted a long and detailed post about the program 'V' the other day and forgot to mention the reson why I was writing it in the first place. The real reason for bringing up the program was to mention something they use in the program, 'The fifth column'. This is a phrase I haven't heard for some time, the last time I heard it was in a school history lesson when discussing the Spanish civil war. The original use for the term was to decribe a hidden or clandestine force, in the program this is the human and 'V' resistence movement.
Upon doing some research I discovered that the phrase was later adapted to mean any kind of resistence movement against the established or ruling government. More recently the 'fifth column' was described by an American author has used it to describe the 'fourth estate' or the press.
This is interesting given the general consenus here in the uk that there is no longer a free press. So is the press really on our side, some would yes, some no. The yes bridgade would argue that the press freely reports on any scandal without restraint and fill their reletive mediums with irelevent news until the next scandal presents itself. Their arguement would be bolstered by the recent expenses scandal broken by The Guardian newspaper. The no crowd would have a much more convincing and stronger arguement, the main one being the fact the news mediums here only report on one side of an arguement. The BBC, as much as I dislike them, are supposed to be the impartial, non-influenced medium of the people, but they constantly come under attack for this stance. We need only cast our mind to the furore caused by them allowing Nick Griffin on question time, I can understand the opposistion to this but by the token people should understand that this freedom has to been maintained no matter what. The moment these freedoms start to become restricted is the moment we start to shift towards fascism.