TV Priest take on news media and our ‘post-truth’ world on new song ‘Press Gang’
nme.comTV Priest have released a new single, ‘Press Gang’, lifted from their forthcoming debut album, ‘Uppers’.The London band turn a critical eye to the news cycle and mass media on ‘Press Gang’.
On the second verse, vocalist Charlie Drinkwater intones, “Thrust a paper in your hand / Went for a walk through an ink-stained land / You’re better off uninformed / High, high praise indeed!”According to a press release, the song was inspired by Drinkwater’s grandfather, who worked as a photojournalist and war correspondent on Fleet Street from the 1950s to 1980s.‘Press Gang’ is about the media’s changing role in disseminating information and ideas, and also “how the prevailing narrative that the ‘Death of Print Media’ has contributed to a ‘post-truth’.
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