Why don't those in business get held up to the same scrutiny as Russell Brand?

lol Big business is criticised all the time in the media. Do you even watch the news or read newspapers?

I swear none of you lot do, you just assume the media doesn't report anything you want because you've already decided the media is evil due to illuminati or some other potatoeness.

It's like this moron on my Facebook who slammed the media for not reporting the stuff going on in Syria. Or this tit I know who was trying to convince me that the British media only talk about Ballotelli and never the ills of guys like John Terry. He admitted he hadn't read a British newspaper in over a decade.

There is a vague criticism for business, when there is it is rarely specific and never damaging. Russell Brand got a lot more criticism for that Paxman interview than anyone ever received for tanking the nations economy and not one person served a day in jail for it.

The comparison hardly stacks as equal does it? One was an opinion, the other threw the world into chaos and many into poverty. The point has been made that he shouldn't get so much attention, he's just a narcissistic actor. I would agree with that if the media and politicians (and therefore so many of their voters and readers) actually dealt with the real issues of our time. The fact it took an actor to say those things says more about the gulf they have left than the morals and motivations of such weak opposition.

Apart from the criticism of Google, Starbucks, Amazon etc then some tosser like Brand gets lionised for his vague ramblings which are no more informative than the sort of soap-box level **** Sun reading drunkards come out with

Sun readin drunkards are your best example of anti-establishment? And are you seriously comparing corporations who pay next to no tax to someone's opinion on an interview? You think they have had the appropriate amount of criticism for their "Crimes"?

Again, how much of a problem has this caused the faceless people at the top of those corporations? what has changed in banking culture since they brought down our economy? Tokenism and a huge bail out, poor things.

Obviously you're an expert on the internal workings of major world banks

I mean everyone knows the nameless faceless CEO's of these companies are a massive secret than only the illuminati lizardmen (and people do can use Wikipedia/watch the news) get to know

anyway

Ron Paul/Russell Brand 2016

Heard it first here

Agreed. Too many on here have their little conspiracy therories. Big business is criticised all the time. However, if you only read the back of cereal packets or something you won't realise, nor will you do so if you have a desire to overstate the corruption of the media.

Sometimes this is the case-certain things go unreported. But people overstate it IMO.

But you get people who claim that the media are in the pocket of elite businessmen/politicians etc.

Is that why every newspaper in the country repeatedly printed Stephen Hester's pay packet? Is it why every newspaper in the country printed countless MPs' expense claims?

To claim these people do not get held accountable compared to idiot celebrities on a self-righteousness binge is a joke.

Well I didn't say there was no criticisms but these are tactical depending on which party that newspaper is currently supporting. It is a joke that they are compared but the fact you find self-righteousness as the bigger evil of the two is astounding.