Media outlets aren’t always noted for their self awareness. But this article in today’s Daily Mail has really surpassed itself.
“Do you ever feel as if The Authorities are doing their damnedest to scare us all to death?” opens the article, provocatively.
The Mail itself is routinely lampooned for its scaremongering tactics. With all this immigration and disease and wheelie bins and Christmas robins and everything, no one and nothing can ever be safe.
(And don’t forget: most things both cause and prevent cancer – so make sure you always avoid and indulge in them.)
Unfortunately, most of the commenters have missed the sublime irony of the piece. If we have nothing to fear but fear itself, then the Mail gives this a subtle twist. We have everything to fear including fear itself – and being fearful is the scariest prospect of them all.
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