Sky news - a perfect example of propaganda in action

[mr-dead]

So with the world markets currently crashing and Sky News reporting £74bn FTSE slump for some strange unkown reason they felt the need to drop another story below this huge headline taking the time to point out how terrible gold is as an investment.

 

 

"This summer gold has been the worst performing precious metal, with its price dropping nearly 40% lower since its 2011 peak.

What else is there to know about the world's most revered special metal?"

 

link to story -

 

http://news.sky.com/story/1540866/five-nuggets-you-need-to-know-about-gold

 

Get the feeling the house of cards is about to fall and the powers above are shitting themselves

 

 

[KDave]

They are still discussing the metal openly on the TV news channel as a good investment in times such as these though. They have been doing interviews with gold 'experts' throughout the day too. I am not sure what to make of it to be honest.

[KDave]

Also did anyone else see the adverts for the 'how to buy gold coins' booklet today? Its all a bit odd. The stock markets collapse all around the world and almost straight away the public are having gold shown to them as an alternative investment on the TV of all places. Does anyone else find this odd or should I take the tin foil hat off.

[DRooster]

What telly are you watching that has "buy gold" adverts on it?

[Stu]

I have seen adverts for Bullion by Post on the RT channel, they are not exactly mainstream though.

[KDave]

It might have been an advert on sky news channel. It was on the TV at work in the crew room, no one way paying it much attention though. Either Sky news, Channel 4 or Dave. The guys watch a lot of Dave  

[silversword]

What telly are you watching that has "buy gold" adverts on it?

 

Saw an advert for a free "Rosland book of gold" (http://www.rosland.co.uk) on the TV in our work lobby - not sure what channel it was on at the time, though its usually left on Sky News during the day. The ad irritated me because they seemed to suggest that ordinary folk can pick up a handul of 1oz'ers whenever they like. Also their website doesn't carry prices, so they are likely to be a bunch of hawks, trying to offload "semi numismatics" for outrageous premiums to people who know no better.

[KDave]

Saw an advert for a free "Rosland book of gold" (http://www.rosland.co.uk) on the TV in our work lobby - not sure what channel it was on at the time, though its usually left on Sky News during the day. The ad irritated me because they seemed to suggest that ordinary folk can pick up a handul of 1oz'ers whenever they like. Also their website doesn't carry prices, so they are likely to be a bunch of hawks, trying to offload "semi numismatics" for outrageous premiums to people who know no better.

That's the one! I was beginning to think I had been a victim of a momentary time slip back to 2011 or something. Everyone I spoke to at work about it hasn't a clue what I am talking about. Must have been a sh*t advert. 

[MikeOxlong]

I have seen that Rosland advert loads (I watch a lot of sky documentaries lol)