Lack of balance in the media: where is the outrage?

Johnson will shut down parliament, with the deliberate intention of ensuring opposition to a no-Deal Brexit falters (Yet another sign that an election is not too far away, 29/08/19). Where is the outrage? An unelected prime minister single-handedly by-passing all the constitutional conventions built up over centuries of democratic progress, should be criticised on all sides of the media. Katy Balls actually quotes a Westminster source, describing Johnson`s action as "strategically, an astonishingly good move" ("Astonishingly good move" will divide the Tory rebels, 29/08/19).

   Imagine what the press would have written, and the amount of criticism there would have been on the news programmes, if Jeremy Corbyn as PM, unsure of his majority, had prevented any debate on his proposals, say, to raise income tax on the rich. Even worse if at the same time, McDowell was churning out spending proposals to rescue the NHS and schools after years of Tory neglect without detailing figures and mentioning the huge amount of borrowing needed! The media would have apoplexy!

     Yet Johnson does what is quite obviously much worse, and gets away with it, almost without a word of protest from the media giants. No doubt they will even be supportive of his ridiculous election claim to be on the side of the people, caring for their health and the education of their children!

It is indeed, as the former member of Ofqual, Barnaby Lenon, says "terrible for honest students" when they hear about other examination entrants having previous knowledge of the questions (Tighter school security vital for preventing exam paper leaks, 28/08/19). Imagine then how bad it must be when state school A-level students not only hear about cheating in private schools involving teachers, but when the exams involved are different from the ones they take. 

      Disappointingly, your article did not mention the huge cheating scandal two years ago when teachers at Eton and Winchester were forced to leave their posts after giving students prior information about Pre-U exam papers, the exams favoured by many private schools keen to avoid the newly-reformed A-Levels. Wouldn`t it be much easier to prevent "leaks" if the only qualifications accepted by UK universities were the highly regulated A-level and BTech examinations?