Sunday, May 03, 2009
News International, Inciting Murder and Paedophile Attacks Again
I'm not well-inclined towards Gary Glitter, his behaviour since his fall from grace would suggest he's fairly unrepentant about being a paedophile but when he's got News International following him around what likelihood is there of him changing? He's fled the country once after all. This article, like a lot of the drivel put out by the spawn of Murdoch, is difficult to justify journalistically.
Parents should study our pictures well. For the child abuser - who is on the sex offenders register - is still a constant danger and threat to innocent kids.
Yes, parents who live in Brighton, Birmingham, Cardiff or Newcastle need to be informed about this London-based paedophile. And what evil, paedophilic things has he been doing?
* LEERING at pretty young waitresses.
* EXPLOITING his hearing problem to get them leaning in close.
* ATTEMPTING to pick up young women on the street.
* STAGGERING home drunk and trying to lure young people up to his flat.
So, behaving like most blokes you see out on the street then. Of course, the NotW has no proof that Glitter has been after any children, the best they can manage is
He left the shop alongside two young Asian girls - one in white socks and school uniform the other clutching a cuddly toy.
But they are clearly nothing to do with him, on such evidence almost everyone in the world is a paedophile. Their insistence that evil Glitter has disguised himself as Rolf Harris, complete with a photo of Rolf so you can compare and contrast, is the only amusing part of the story.
But this is all unjustifiable plop of the worst kind. Paedophiles are to NotW what the MMR vaccine is to the Daily Mail, an excuse for the worst kind of non-stories ignoring all the research that children are most often abused by family members. Best case reading? News International want a reader who happens to live where Glitter lives now to kill him. Worse case, Glitter goes underground with no reason not to start attacking children. The NotW openly appeals for murder. Is this how our media should really work?
Parents should study our pictures well. For the child abuser - who is on the sex offenders register - is still a constant danger and threat to innocent kids.
Yes, parents who live in Brighton, Birmingham, Cardiff or Newcastle need to be informed about this London-based paedophile. And what evil, paedophilic things has he been doing?
* LEERING at pretty young waitresses.
* EXPLOITING his hearing problem to get them leaning in close.
* ATTEMPTING to pick up young women on the street.
* STAGGERING home drunk and trying to lure young people up to his flat.
So, behaving like most blokes you see out on the street then. Of course, the NotW has no proof that Glitter has been after any children, the best they can manage is
He left the shop alongside two young Asian girls - one in white socks and school uniform the other clutching a cuddly toy.
But they are clearly nothing to do with him, on such evidence almost everyone in the world is a paedophile. Their insistence that evil Glitter has disguised himself as Rolf Harris, complete with a photo of Rolf so you can compare and contrast, is the only amusing part of the story.
But this is all unjustifiable plop of the worst kind. Paedophiles are to NotW what the MMR vaccine is to the Daily Mail, an excuse for the worst kind of non-stories ignoring all the research that children are most often abused by family members. Best case reading? News International want a reader who happens to live where Glitter lives now to kill him. Worse case, Glitter goes underground with no reason not to start attacking children. The NotW openly appeals for murder. Is this how our media should really work?
Labels: media scares, News International, paedophiles, Rupert Murdoch, The Sun
Monday, October 27, 2008
Spot the difference.
Yesterday.
Today.
I'm curious as to whether this happens often and I just don't normally notice.
Today.
I'm curious as to whether this happens often and I just don't normally notice.
Labels: Daily Mail, News International, newspapers, The Sun
Monday, February 25, 2008
The Sun calls for the return of the death penalty. Or at least they claim that nearly 95 000 readers think it would be a good idea. So they write a nice, emotive article full of pictures and interviews with people who have lost someone to violent crime and found, surprisingly, that they would quite like revenge really. So, is this going to be the next big Sun campaign, for a return to capital punishment?
Labels: Capital Punishment, News International, newspapers, The Sun
Friday, August 03, 2007
Argh! I want to pinch Nick Francis' bum, with a vice. What? It's just harmless 'fun'.
This, on the other hand, is just vile.
This, on the other hand, is just vile.
Labels: abortion, angry, journalists, sexual assault, The Sun
Thursday, May 31, 2007
The Sun claim Doctor Who will finish next year. I won't break out the cyanide capsules just yet, seeing as it's News International and the BBC we're talking about here I refuse to believe that The Sun's source is as good as the one that tells them everything the Prime Minister is thinking in Number 10. I wouldn't be surprised if Russell T. Davies wants to move on, he's worked crazy busy for the last few years getting Doctor Who and Torchwood off the ground, so if he leaves soon that's to be expected. But the Beeb hold the rights to Who, and I can't believe they'd be willing to throw in the towel, even if market share being what it is the new show doesn't get the viewing figures of the mid seventies heyday...
Labels: Doctor Who, The Sun
Tuesday, May 22, 2007
Kids supposedly worried about being kidnapped like Madeleine McCann says The Sun. The best thing is the picture that accompanies the story, of a 'concerned child'.
Labels: hysterias, News International, newspapers, The Sun
Wednesday, February 14, 2007
Terror! Terror! Terrified yet?
The news media are finally reporting on a BNP man who stockpiled explosives in his house and fantasised about killing Tony Blair and John Prescott. Hey, we can relate... However, this has been 'news' for several months, as this man was arrested last autumn but, other than a regional newspaper's report which then got distributed liberally amongst British bloggers, there has been something of a self-imposed media blackout over this story. When the BBC were asked why they weren't reporting on what was a bona case of British men who were apparently prepared to take part in acts of terrorism they replied they didn't want to prejudice any future court case.
I'm sure Mohammed Abdulkahar and Abul Koyair could relate. They were, after all, two Muslim men arrested in a highly publicised raid by the police on a house in Forest Gate that they thought was the nerve centre of possible terrorist activity. The media devoted considerable time to this over the next few days, until the police quietly admitted that it was all a mistake and let the two men go. By this time their names and photos had been liberally printed and shown on screen, while Robert Cottage and David Jackson, the BNP men, were ignored.
Anyway, the two men complained to the Independent Police Complaints Commission, the people that decided the police were justified in shooting Jean Charles de Menezes in the head. Luckily the IPCC had stocked up on whitewash in preparation and announced that the police were fully justified in doing whatever they want because they're the police. They threw the two men two small bones, upholding piddling complaints about their food and pain killers (due to the fact the police shot one of them in the arm) and suggesting the police should consider apologising. Apparently the police training manual doesn't cover being magnanimous in victory, as according to the Daily Mail, the police are refusing to apologise to the two men. The police are claiming they've apologised three times already but none of their apologies are to the two men for arresting them as terrorism suspects and allowing their pictures to be circulated to the media.
Robert who? David what?
The Sun are reporting on the BNP plotters story but notably describes neither of these men as terrorists or would-be terrorists. Unlike some of their other news stories they aren't offering readers the chance to discuss the story either. The t-word does get used, though only once, in their report on the IPCC story, which shows how half-hearted their momentary concern about racism actually was.
The news media are finally reporting on a BNP man who stockpiled explosives in his house and fantasised about killing Tony Blair and John Prescott. Hey, we can relate... However, this has been 'news' for several months, as this man was arrested last autumn but, other than a regional newspaper's report which then got distributed liberally amongst British bloggers, there has been something of a self-imposed media blackout over this story. When the BBC were asked why they weren't reporting on what was a bona case of British men who were apparently prepared to take part in acts of terrorism they replied they didn't want to prejudice any future court case.
I'm sure Mohammed Abdulkahar and Abul Koyair could relate. They were, after all, two Muslim men arrested in a highly publicised raid by the police on a house in Forest Gate that they thought was the nerve centre of possible terrorist activity. The media devoted considerable time to this over the next few days, until the police quietly admitted that it was all a mistake and let the two men go. By this time their names and photos had been liberally printed and shown on screen, while Robert Cottage and David Jackson, the BNP men, were ignored.
Anyway, the two men complained to the Independent Police Complaints Commission, the people that decided the police were justified in shooting Jean Charles de Menezes in the head. Luckily the IPCC had stocked up on whitewash in preparation and announced that the police were fully justified in doing whatever they want because they're the police. They threw the two men two small bones, upholding piddling complaints about their food and pain killers (due to the fact the police shot one of them in the arm) and suggesting the police should consider apologising. Apparently the police training manual doesn't cover being magnanimous in victory, as according to the Daily Mail, the police are refusing to apologise to the two men. The police are claiming they've apologised three times already but none of their apologies are to the two men for arresting them as terrorism suspects and allowing their pictures to be circulated to the media.
Robert who? David what?
The Sun are reporting on the BNP plotters story but notably describes neither of these men as terrorists or would-be terrorists. Unlike some of their other news stories they aren't offering readers the chance to discuss the story either. The t-word does get used, though only once, in their report on the IPCC story, which shows how half-hearted their momentary concern about racism actually was.
Labels: BNP, British National Party, Independent Police Complaints Commission, IPCC, media, news, News International, newspapers, police, racism, terrorism, The Sun
Wednesday, January 31, 2007
People more awake than me also noticed The Sun's front cover yesterday and have provided more context. [via Bloggerheads]
Labels: News International, newspapers, racism, The Sun
Tuesday, January 30, 2007
The World Turned Upside Down
It's not often that I find anything positive or admirable coming out of the intellectual slum of News International. A bunch of morally bankrupt toads determined to drag down intellectual discussion to the gutter and influence Government policy not to even the betterment of conservatism but to that of the Extremely Rich Conservative Right.
But today, taking a break from accusing the Home Secretary of letting paedophiles out of prison and pointing them towards the nearest school, The Sun decides to present an article about how racism is bad.
What do we all have in common?
THEY are some of the most offensive and ugly words in the English language. Words like nigger, spic and raghead. But today The Sun makes no apology for printing them — or the pictures showing children who are the innocent victims of such repugnant insults. The youngsters, whether Muslim, Jewish, Sikh or Christian, have two things in common. Like Celebrity Big Brother winner Shilpa Shetty, they have encountered racism in this country. But they are also all BRITISH.
To be fair The Sun is more openly xenophobic rather than racist, on an average day the paper will complain more about white Europeans than British Asians. But the paper takes almost pride in being the paper of the racist element of the working class and certainly since 2001 when non-white faces have appeared outside the sports pages they have overwhelmingly been in articles about terrorism. The Sun has demanded that terrorist subjects be sent back to their countries of ethnic origin, even when they are British citizens, and has run it's campaign against immigration on the grounds that terrorists could come into the country unmonitored, even though the only terrorists to attack this country in the last decade were born and bred British, and the only terrorist suspect to be killed by someone other than themselves was an innocent Brazilian killed by incompetent policing.
But it's still significant that The Sun have produced a positive story about multiculturalism. I suspect that the mention of Big Brother is key. Though The Sun were pretty quick to jump on the racist behaviour of Jade Goody and the other women in the House this sort of behaviour is not natural to them and they may judge that there's a surge in awareness of racism amongst their core constituency. Hopefully this is a strand they will continue as long as their campaign to have paedophiles addresses available to local mobs for tarring and feathering purposes.
But today, taking a break from accusing the Home Secretary of letting paedophiles out of prison and pointing them towards the nearest school, The Sun decides to present an article about how racism is bad.
What do we all have in common?
THEY are some of the most offensive and ugly words in the English language. Words like nigger, spic and raghead. But today The Sun makes no apology for printing them — or the pictures showing children who are the innocent victims of such repugnant insults. The youngsters, whether Muslim, Jewish, Sikh or Christian, have two things in common. Like Celebrity Big Brother winner Shilpa Shetty, they have encountered racism in this country. But they are also all BRITISH.
To be fair The Sun is more openly xenophobic rather than racist, on an average day the paper will complain more about white Europeans than British Asians. But the paper takes almost pride in being the paper of the racist element of the working class and certainly since 2001 when non-white faces have appeared outside the sports pages they have overwhelmingly been in articles about terrorism. The Sun has demanded that terrorist subjects be sent back to their countries of ethnic origin, even when they are British citizens, and has run it's campaign against immigration on the grounds that terrorists could come into the country unmonitored, even though the only terrorists to attack this country in the last decade were born and bred British, and the only terrorist suspect to be killed by someone other than themselves was an innocent Brazilian killed by incompetent policing.
But it's still significant that The Sun have produced a positive story about multiculturalism. I suspect that the mention of Big Brother is key. Though The Sun were pretty quick to jump on the racist behaviour of Jade Goody and the other women in the House this sort of behaviour is not natural to them and they may judge that there's a surge in awareness of racism amongst their core constituency. Hopefully this is a strand they will continue as long as their campaign to have paedophiles addresses available to local mobs for tarring and feathering purposes.
Labels: News International, newspapers, racism, The Sun
Saturday, January 06, 2007
Nazi royal pic sparks outrage.
The Sun has an article on how a Danish artist has drawn a portrait of Prince Harry as a Nazi. I'm not clear how this is 'outrageous' when, as The Sun admits itself, Harry has dressed up as a Nazi in the past. I suppose it's one of those 'how dare those foreigners insult OUR monarchy? That's our job!' kind of things.
The Sun has an article on how a Danish artist has drawn a portrait of Prince Harry as a Nazi. I'm not clear how this is 'outrageous' when, as The Sun admits itself, Harry has dressed up as a Nazi in the past. I suppose it's one of those 'how dare those foreigners insult OUR monarchy? That's our job!' kind of things.
Labels: British Royal Family, News International, newspapers, The Sun
Sunday, December 31, 2006
The Sun report that Saddam Hussein is dead with the gloating 'Iraq butcher sent to hell'. It wouldn't surprise me if NewsCorp actually have a foreign correspondent down there filing an exclusive report... In other 'unpleasant dictator' news, Fidel is looking rather peeky too.
The Independent and the Daily Mail both report on the New Years Honours, the day after Hussein was hung we find out that John Scarlett, who wrote the tissue of lies or 'dodgy dosier' with which Tony Blair made his fallacious case for invading Iraq, has been knighted. So who says crime doesn't pay?
There's an article in The Observer on diaries and those who keep them. I've kept a journal since September 1994, when I went to university, it's part of the reason I don't treat either this blog or my LJ as straight diaries either. This article does at least reassure me as to the mundanity of my recollections, as Samuel Pepys and Bart Simpson know, what seems normal today will baffle and amaze the people of the future, so presuming the Quiverfulls don't kill everyone first we may all have some fame after our deaths.
I received Michael Palin's first set of diaries for Christmas and am about halfway through. As he observes himself, there is next to nothing about Monty Python's early years in there, it only starts cropping up with any regularity when they've reached the third series, started to make the Monty Python films, touring the stage show, making the album and bickering about making the TV show until they aren't any more. It goes to show that we will never know what may be important down the line, I did realise the 11th of September 2001 was going to cause trouble for someone somewhere, although at the time I don't think I realised the scale of the ambitions of Bush and Blair for global change. A quick flick through the diary for 2005 doesn't reveal much of the depression that I remember as being the key thing about last year, someone who read it not knowing me might have been a bit surprised when I wrote in January this year that I was seeing a counsellor about it. Still, when I came round to compiling a list of things I'd done or experienced in 2006 that made me happy I came up with twenty things but it took me all day to remember them, and that was without looking at my diary, so who knows what's happened that never makes it in to the pages.
The Independent and the Daily Mail both report on the New Years Honours, the day after Hussein was hung we find out that John Scarlett, who wrote the tissue of lies or 'dodgy dosier' with which Tony Blair made his fallacious case for invading Iraq, has been knighted. So who says crime doesn't pay?
There's an article in The Observer on diaries and those who keep them. I've kept a journal since September 1994, when I went to university, it's part of the reason I don't treat either this blog or my LJ as straight diaries either. This article does at least reassure me as to the mundanity of my recollections, as Samuel Pepys and Bart Simpson know, what seems normal today will baffle and amaze the people of the future, so presuming the Quiverfulls don't kill everyone first we may all have some fame after our deaths.
I received Michael Palin's first set of diaries for Christmas and am about halfway through. As he observes himself, there is next to nothing about Monty Python's early years in there, it only starts cropping up with any regularity when they've reached the third series, started to make the Monty Python films, touring the stage show, making the album and bickering about making the TV show until they aren't any more. It goes to show that we will never know what may be important down the line, I did realise the 11th of September 2001 was going to cause trouble for someone somewhere, although at the time I don't think I realised the scale of the ambitions of Bush and Blair for global change. A quick flick through the diary for 2005 doesn't reveal much of the depression that I remember as being the key thing about last year, someone who read it not knowing me might have been a bit surprised when I wrote in January this year that I was seeing a counsellor about it. Still, when I came round to compiling a list of things I'd done or experienced in 2006 that made me happy I came up with twenty things but it took me all day to remember them, and that was without looking at my diary, so who knows what's happened that never makes it in to the pages.
Labels: comedians, diaries, News International, personal history, The Sun, The War Against Terror
Thursday, December 21, 2006
Blairwatch point out that when unsourced allegations appear in the press it's normally collusion between the Government and Murdoch's rag. So claiming that an immigrant who wasn't chucked out of the country because his nation of birth is a mess escaped justice by leaving the country wearing a niqab and was unchallenged at the airport, really covers all The Sun's favourite bases but as yet has no basis in provable fact. Not that that concerns The Sun at all, they're now campaigning against the veil on the usual 'if you've done nothing wrong you've got nothing to hide' grounds.
Labels: News International, The Sun
Sunday, December 10, 2006
Is anyone surprised that the Daily Telegraph misrepresent the Civil Partnerships Act as a 'gay marriage' bill so they can use scarequotes throughout this article on how evangelical Anglican churches around the UK are barring liberal priests from entering them in the row over gay clergy who are apparently all 'marrying' their boyfriends?
They also have an article on what BBC bosses of the time thought about Monty Python's Flying Circus. Mind you, these people didn't see anything wrong with The Black and White Minstrel Show.
It seems Scientology is a charity in the UK, not a religion.
The Sun find it newsworthy to report that there may one day be a Muslim Prime Minister. This has the predictable effect on the paper's constituency, lots of references to Churchill rolling in his grave and 'Enoch was right', 'hopeless1974' says This country is already being run by those not from it. The current government as always only gives a dam about themselves. So why not throw the country to the non-English and the muslims, let's hope that when they take over they give hopeless some spelling and grammar tips. More ignorance is on display at The Sun's message boards. I'm confused by these people that claim that Britain is already a Muslim state, but then I suspect that they are the ones that also think the country is run by a female-Jewish-homosexual cabal whenever someone is foolish enough to ask them for their ill thought out opinion.
They also have an article on what BBC bosses of the time thought about Monty Python's Flying Circus. Mind you, these people didn't see anything wrong with The Black and White Minstrel Show.
It seems Scientology is a charity in the UK, not a religion.
The Sun find it newsworthy to report that there may one day be a Muslim Prime Minister. This has the predictable effect on the paper's constituency, lots of references to Churchill rolling in his grave and 'Enoch was right', 'hopeless1974' says This country is already being run by those not from it. The current government as always only gives a dam about themselves. So why not throw the country to the non-English and the muslims, let's hope that when they take over they give hopeless some spelling and grammar tips. More ignorance is on display at The Sun's message boards. I'm confused by these people that claim that Britain is already a Muslim state, but then I suspect that they are the ones that also think the country is run by a female-Jewish-homosexual cabal whenever someone is foolish enough to ask them for their ill thought out opinion.
Labels: Christianity, Civil Partnership/Gay Marriage, gay, lesbian, multiculturalism, News International, Scientology, The Sun
Monday, September 11, 2006
So, I've heard that today's some kind of anniversary yeah? Wait, don't tell me, let me guess... It's your birthday right? Hey, looking good, not a day over... not a birthday? Wedding anniversary? Between Tony Blair's face and George Bush's arse? Hmmm, five years, I believe that's wood... Not a wedding anniversary? But I'm getting close right?
So, yeah, September the 11th 2001, or 'niynellevun' as the USians would have it. Grief's a weird thing, I didn't feel anything when my Nan died, my sister was almost hysterical at the end of the service and a few years ago refused to hear any conversation that included the inevitability of our parent's eventual demise. I suspect it's part and parcel of being a moody bugger, I don't tend to go much lower when something genuinely bad happens.
Of course, there's other reasons to distrust public mournathons. The wailing and gnashing of teeth following the death of Princess Di wrongfooted me as much as it did the royal family, I didn't understand how anyone could devote so much of their time to following someone else so intently, 'were they crazy?' I thought, 'I wouldn't do something like that'. The fact that many many times the number of people who died in the Twin Towers on that September day in 2001 have died in the rest of the world since, both those against the American imperialists, those for, and those unfortunate to have been caught in between. The Independent's figures make grim reading.
When passion drives policy it's a bad thing. Thomas Sutcliffe wrote an insightful article in the Independent in March 2000 asking why the parents of Leah Betts or Stephen Lawrence should be allowed to influence policy. When a situation exists where you think the passion is manufactured to drive policy it's worse. The Sun fakes passion as a matter of course. The overwhelming feeling I felt on the 11th of September 2001 was a sinking one that Bush and the neocons around him were going to use these poor dead people as an excuse to kill a hell of a lot more, I couldn't believe they genuinely felt sorrow, but knew that they couldn't show their smiles publicly.
So, sure, let's remember those who died on this anniversary. But let's remember all of those who died, Americans, British, Israelis, Palestinians, Lebanese, Iraqis, Afghans. Those that died in the Al Qaida attacks on this country, Spain, India and other parts of the world. Let us remember those who no longer walk upon this earth and those who do: Osama Bin Ladin; Ayman al-Zawahiri; Mullah Omar; Tony Blair; George W. Bush; Richard Cheney; Donald Rumsfeld.
So, yeah, September the 11th 2001, or 'niynellevun' as the USians would have it. Grief's a weird thing, I didn't feel anything when my Nan died, my sister was almost hysterical at the end of the service and a few years ago refused to hear any conversation that included the inevitability of our parent's eventual demise. I suspect it's part and parcel of being a moody bugger, I don't tend to go much lower when something genuinely bad happens.
Of course, there's other reasons to distrust public mournathons. The wailing and gnashing of teeth following the death of Princess Di wrongfooted me as much as it did the royal family, I didn't understand how anyone could devote so much of their time to following someone else so intently, 'were they crazy?' I thought, 'I wouldn't do something like that'. The fact that many many times the number of people who died in the Twin Towers on that September day in 2001 have died in the rest of the world since, both those against the American imperialists, those for, and those unfortunate to have been caught in between. The Independent's figures make grim reading.
When passion drives policy it's a bad thing. Thomas Sutcliffe wrote an insightful article in the Independent in March 2000 asking why the parents of Leah Betts or Stephen Lawrence should be allowed to influence policy. When a situation exists where you think the passion is manufactured to drive policy it's worse. The Sun fakes passion as a matter of course. The overwhelming feeling I felt on the 11th of September 2001 was a sinking one that Bush and the neocons around him were going to use these poor dead people as an excuse to kill a hell of a lot more, I couldn't believe they genuinely felt sorrow, but knew that they couldn't show their smiles publicly.
So, sure, let's remember those who died on this anniversary. But let's remember all of those who died, Americans, British, Israelis, Palestinians, Lebanese, Iraqis, Afghans. Those that died in the Al Qaida attacks on this country, Spain, India and other parts of the world. Let us remember those who no longer walk upon this earth and those who do: Osama Bin Ladin; Ayman al-Zawahiri; Mullah Omar; Tony Blair; George W. Bush; Richard Cheney; Donald Rumsfeld.
Labels: 11/09/01, Afghanistan, Fox, freedom, George 'Shrubya' Bush, Iraq, News International, personal history, The Sun, The War Against Terror, Tony Blair, United States, Weapons of Mass Destruction
