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Post by Cartman on May 30, 2018 18:07:36 GMT
We understand Arthur, wife’s done a runner, some bird in the paper wiv no top on.....
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Post by Villain on May 30, 2018 19:40:36 GMT
It's pretty obvious that many forms of media have some kind of bias due to the political / business leanings of their wealthy backers, whether they're left, right or centrist in origin. It's a rabbit hole they'll never dig themselves out of sadly and real journalism has long been worse off for it. My biggest gripe comes when their 'right on' utter hypocricy shows through the veil of so called objectivity, for example a few years ago the left leaning Guardian was up in arms (to put it mildly) over so called tax dodgers and tax avoiders (but only the Tory ones), sinking their money into offshore tax and pension schemes, yet strangely enough the very same pillar of honest to goodness people's journalism went deathly quiet when it was pointed out that the paper and all of its employees pensions are propped up by, wait for it.... you've guessed it.... an off sore tax evasion scheme, some of who's recipients were (still are) Labour front back benchers and peers! Villain
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Post by D.C. Burtonshaw on May 31, 2018 19:11:25 GMT
I also remember that time when a tabloid paper (I forget which) reported a sighting of the late poor old Lewis Collins seen in America walking down the road to the shop in his baggy jogging bottoms and baseball cap and glasses and making out he had gone to pudding/seed and look overweight and not his best, when comparing him with the great shape Martin Shaw (his old Pros co-star) was in nowadays (showing a photo of him in his evening best on a night out - hardly a fair comparison!).
Agreeably Shaw is in good shape I suppose for a 73 year old (I think he is) and good to see him still working as an actor, but what the tabloid rag didn't realise was Lew was fighting cancer at the time so wouldn't have looked his best and that was rotten and unfair to make out he had let himself go!! Some time later of course (December 2013) Lew was no longer with us - I hope that paper had a long hard look at itself! But I doubt it..........
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Post by Cartman on May 31, 2018 22:04:42 GMT
Sounds to me like the kind of thing the Daily Heil would have done, they have previous form for this kind of malice.
A couple of of years ago they got caught out big time. They were engaged in one of their usual character assassination/smear campaigns against the then Labour leader, Ed Milliband, and decided that his father, Ralph, who was no longer alive by then, was some kind of traitor. They ran a story headed The Man Who Hated Britain.
Almost immediately afterwards, I think it was the Mirror, revealed that Milliband senior was in the Royal Navy and served on a destroyer at the D Day landings. This was on the same page as a photo of the Mail’s proprietor at the time, Rothermere, standing next to his favourite European leader, just before the outbreak of the war. He had been sending telegrams addressed to “my dearest Fuhrer” right up to September 1939......
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Post by Cartman on Jun 1, 2018 8:59:34 GMT
Lets just get the whole lot of em safely into Room 101 and have done with it!
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Post by Del Boy on Jun 1, 2018 10:09:04 GMT
Great idea. News of the World jumped the shark and some more of these will follow I'm sure.
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