snowychap Posted July 24, 2020 Author Share Posted July 24, 2020 2 hours ago, tonyh29 said: I mean I'm white thrash 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted July 24, 2020 Moderator Share Posted July 24, 2020 3 minutes ago, snowychap said: Nah 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonyh29 Posted July 24, 2020 Share Posted July 24, 2020 58 minutes ago, snowychap said: , With my fat fingers , imagine if I happened to be the creator of Sesame street , we'd have Oscar the crouch who loved thrash Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted July 24, 2020 Share Posted July 24, 2020 A few things make more sense now. Always wondered why Tony PM’d me asking for pictures of my clock. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seat68 Posted July 24, 2020 Share Posted July 24, 2020 A friend of a friend worked at The Sun, he left them to work at The Daily Mail. Really unsure where his next move will be. He is and was a fairly middle of the road fella. Not right wing. I guess to him its just a job. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted July 24, 2020 Share Posted July 24, 2020 That was my attitude when I was asked to do the readers digest abridged version of Mein Kampf. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HanoiVillan Posted July 29, 2020 Share Posted July 29, 2020 He's still at it Petition to install a mirror in Tom Newton Dunn's office. Also notice that Big Teach is 'incapable of self-regulating', yet I guess we are to assume that News International isn't? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post tonyh29 Posted July 29, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted July 29, 2020 1 hour ago, HanoiVillan said: Also notice that Big Teach is 'incapable of self-regulating', 3 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HanoiVillan Posted July 29, 2020 Share Posted July 29, 2020 oops! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted August 13, 2020 Share Posted August 13, 2020 3 died yesterday, in a train accident in Scotland. today’s Sun headline for Scotland? DEATH EXPRESS nice chaps, just misunderstood, kept afloat by their lovely readership Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HanoiVillan Posted December 7, 2020 Share Posted December 7, 2020 On 01/03/2020 at 23:32, HanoiVillan said: During the election campaign, Tom Newton Dunn - the Sun's political editor - put out a bizarre, conspiracy-theory style 'network analysis' of people connected to the Labour leadership, which subsequently turned out to have been largely sourced from neo-Nazi websites, and he has faced no apparent professional consequences whatsoever for that. Happy Tom Newton Dunn Day! As shown in a previous post on this topic (see last page, as it is for me), he has in fact responded to Dawn Foster on this topic, accusing her of 'untrue slurs', but it's extremely hard to see what is untrue. He literally did publish a network-style conspiracy theory, and it literally did turn out to be largely sourced from a neo-Nazi website, and the Sun quietly deleted it later without explanation. As I have said repeatedly, he has not faced any professional sanction for doing this, and continues on his merry way with the vast majority of the British media happy to work with him. Turns out he's a complete Representative for Wellingborough as well: (from: https://twitter.com/jrc1921/status/1335628130409705474) (the article is from Private Eye) 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maqroll Posted February 16, 2021 Share Posted February 16, 2021 Quote LONDON — Beset by declining ratings, upheaval in its on-air ranks and a multibillion-dollar defamation suit related to its election coverage, Fox News is staggering out of the Trump era — blamed by many for seeding the poisonous political culture that brought a violent mob into the halls of the United States Capitol. Yet in Britain, where television news is regulated to avoid political bias, Rupert Murdoch and a competing group of investors are seizing this moment to create two upstart news services that will challenge the BBC and other broadcasters by borrowing heavily from Mr. Murdoch’s Fox playbook. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/16/world/europe/murdoch-uk-news-channel.html 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lichfield Dean Posted June 3, 2021 VT Supporter Share Posted June 3, 2021 This is truly shocking stuff... The Murdoch press implicated in all sorts of crimes in this piece, which I guess is just a prelude to the Daniel Morgan report due out soon Jacqui Hames: My Line of Duty Rarely is your whole life experience captured in a moment. Such a moment arrived for me on 28 February 2012 as I walked up the imposing steps of the Royal Courts of Justice to give evidence to the Leveson Inquiry. As a police officer, I had given evidence in many courtrooms so the prospect of another session in the witness box shouldn’t really have worried me. But this was different, I was about to challenge the combined might of the country’s biggest police force, and the national tabloid press. https://hackinginquiry.org/jacqui-hames-my-line-of-duty/ 1 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HanoiVillan Posted June 3, 2021 Share Posted June 3, 2021 2 hours ago, Lichfield Dean said: a prelude to the Daniel Morgan report due out soon I think you have to expect it's either not going to be released, or substantially redacted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lichfield Dean Posted June 3, 2021 VT Supporter Share Posted June 3, 2021 Just now, HanoiVillan said: I think you have to expect it's either not going to be released, or substantially redacted. In all likelihood yes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
magnkarl Posted August 27, 2021 Share Posted August 27, 2021 The times, they are a changin'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HanoiVillan Posted November 18, 2021 Share Posted November 18, 2021 (edited) Grimly amusing: It's a complete embarrassment for them that their above-the-fold article on page 1 is completely false and made up - they can't even get the gender of the minister right! Or it should be an embarrassment anyway, but as usual they will blithely ignore it and continue pumping garbage into the media ecosystem. When people talk about 'fake news' they usually mean something to do with low-follower bot accounts on Twitter, but this is every bit as fake and many times more pernicious. 'Who to believe' indeed? Edited November 18, 2021 by HanoiVillan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HanoiVillan Posted November 25, 2021 Share Posted November 25, 2021 Always the most galling thing about News International is the sheer shamelessness. Here is one of their employees, burnishing his humanist credentials on the morning after dozens died attempting to cross the Channel: Hmmm, why on Earth could anyone 'in mainstream politics' feel afraid to challenge said failed strategy? Coincidentally, this cartoon appeared in David's paper a couple of years ago: Why does this fear of the topic exist? Hmm, truly a three-pipe problem eh David. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blandy Posted November 25, 2021 Moderator Share Posted November 25, 2021 10 minutes ago, HanoiVillan said: Always the most galling thing about News International is the sheer shamelessness. Here is one of their employees, burnishing his humanist credentials on the morning after dozens died attempting to cross the Channel: Hmmm, why on Earth could anyone 'in mainstream politics' feel afraid to challenge said failed strategy? Coincidentally, this cartoon appeared in David's paper a couple of years ago: Why does this fear of the topic exist? Hmm, truly a three-pipe problem eh David. I’m unsure what your point is? It seems to me that his tweet is correct. It seems equally clear that the reason politicians don’t address different approaches is the double standards not just of the politicians, but of the population. “We” both want to control/limit migration, especially of brown people, because of fears around terrorism, cultural change and straight up racism, but “we” also are appalled at desperate souls being people trafficked to their watery deaths in the channel. ”We” are also of the view that controls around identity (cards), employment and such like which would alter the current impression of the uk as a soft touch would be an unacceptable imposition on our rights. “We” are also of the view that making the seeking of refuge safer and easier “would only encourage more people to try it on” ”We” are only too aware of the Bataclan, Charlie Hebdo, Manchester,Liverpool, Tower Bridge and many other attacks and demand control. So I think the vast majority of Brits would be and are individually sympathetic and kindly disposed to individual cases and people, but as a collective issue, we are the opposite of that. And so it is too with politicians. Could we be better? Yes, definitely, but the reason for the problem is that the different imperatives are pulling in completely different directions, as is kind of illustrated by the tweet and the cartoon. Yes we want to be kind and stop people drowning and being exploited, and no we don’t want to encourage more people to “game the system”. The problem will not go away. It can’t go away, nothing can be done that will fix it, it will only get worse. Migrants will grow in number due to climate change, poverty, war, oppression, religious fundamentalism. Be more kind and the population will get angry about “swamping” as more migrants take up the opportunity . Be nasty and people drown. So it is a 3 pipe problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HanoiVillan Posted November 25, 2021 Share Posted November 25, 2021 54 minutes ago, blandy said: I’m unsure what your point is? My point is that it's absolutely galling for this man to constantly cash his Murdoch cheques on the one hand, while doing a so-sad-isn't-it-terrible face on the other. I don't have to like the ****, and I don't. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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