Yeah how dare someone in a silly wig try to stop the papers from printing something that is no one’s business, other than those directly involved.
After all it’s not like parliament has ever tried to stop the papers printing sutuff about their expensive is it….
The way this story is being pursued you could be forgiven for thinking there’s some major public interest at stake, but I fail to see how knowing which celebrity has been doing some illicit bonking helps me come to a more informed opinion about issues that affect me, as a citizen of the UK. I can however see how it would improve newspaper profits, which is what all this is really about.
Compare and contrast the way the tabloids are treating this story with that of the phone hacking one. Apart from actual phone hacking it also includes, 20% of the Met being on Murdochs payroll, the Met not investigating criminal behaviour and, in some cases actually covering it up, tabloid editors paying criminals and prostitutes for information, journalists breaking into peoples houses and stealing shit from their bins. It’s almost as if they have a rather obvious agenda.
“M’LUD”? What have they done to our wonderful English language? Is this how the “youth” speak nowadays? A disgrace I believe, for which I blame one or more of New Labour, the EU, Health & Safety, the PC Brigade and Muslims.
Nothing can be more irritating and expensive than a ‘great’ family day out. There’s money to be spent on transport, food, entrance fees, drink and souvenirs; there’s also the annoyance of travelling for miles to a disappointing destination such as a theme park. Include me out.
Today’s Mail offer reminds me of the time I visited the White Cliffs of Dover Experience with my ‘rents, friend and bro. Even if we had one of the Mail’s special tickets we’d all feel thoroughly cheesed off. We spent the day feeling ripped off thanks to my bro being sucked in by a TV advert; I’m still fuming about it more than 15 years later. Am I turning into a Mailite?
If the weather is good, you’re better off in your own back garden letting the kids let off steam as you sip a nice claret.
JohnD: as “Sealife Centres, Thorpe Park, Legoland and many more” are all owned by Merlin Entertainments I suspect this is a promotion, not a generous offer to readers. The Mail doesn’t give a proverbial if anyone actually enjoys their day out as long as it gets people to buy the paper. Merlin, of course, would rather like you to spend a lot of money.
So,the Daily Mail ranks itself alongside Twitter and thus finally admits that it’s actually a vehicle for gossip rather than a reporter of news.
An alternative reading is that they’re claiming credit (yet again) for a campaign that had very little to do with them.
The sorry fact is the papers and a handful of MPs got themselves in a lather about this supposed vital ‘freedom of speech’ principle when it comes to talking about Giggs……but have all to a man & woman stayed completely silent about the criminal activity (one of which involves a company and highly toxic poisons being released into the environment, apparantly) which has been kept from the public thanks to those ’super-injunctions’.
But of course knowing the pathetic & sordid details about Giggs’ infidelity is what it’s all about, right?!
Hypocrital sad b@stards the lot of them.
Mail Man
Yes. I think that’s the important point about ’super-injunctions’: they can be used by large companies to cover up unethical behaviour.
Unfortunately, our tabloid press have become so degenerate that they are far more concerned about not being able to report which celebrities are screwing each other than about issues which genuinely affect the public interest.
It’s a conflict for the Mail having to stick up for a Liberal Democrat MP
Yeah how dare someone in a silly wig try to stop the papers from printing something that is no one’s business, other than those directly involved.
After all it’s not like parliament has ever tried to stop the papers printing sutuff about their expensive is it….
The way this story is being pursued you could be forgiven for thinking there’s some major public interest at stake, but I fail to see how knowing which celebrity has been doing some illicit bonking helps me come to a more informed opinion about issues that affect me, as a citizen of the UK. I can however see how it would improve newspaper profits, which is what all this is really about.
It’s a slippery slope though Phil, it’s how The Nazis started…………..not that they were ALL bad of course according to The Mail!!………….
Compare and contrast the way the tabloids are treating this story with that of the phone hacking one. Apart from actual phone hacking it also includes, 20% of the Met being on Murdochs payroll, the Met not investigating criminal behaviour and, in some cases actually covering it up, tabloid editors paying criminals and prostitutes for information, journalists breaking into peoples houses and stealing shit from their bins. It’s almost as if they have a rather obvious agenda.
“M’LUD”? What have they done to our wonderful English language? Is this how the “youth” speak nowadays? A disgrace I believe, for which I blame one or more of New Labour, the EU, Health & Safety, the PC Brigade and Muslims.
Nothing about Obama’s visit?
Nothing can be more irritating and expensive than a ‘great’ family day out. There’s money to be spent on transport, food, entrance fees, drink and souvenirs; there’s also the annoyance of travelling for miles to a disappointing destination such as a theme park. Include me out.
Today’s Mail offer reminds me of the time I visited the White Cliffs of Dover Experience with my ‘rents, friend and bro. Even if we had one of the Mail’s special tickets we’d all feel thoroughly cheesed off. We spent the day feeling ripped off thanks to my bro being sucked in by a TV advert; I’m still fuming about it more than 15 years later. Am I turning into a Mailite?
If the weather is good, you’re better off in your own back garden letting the kids let off steam as you sip a nice claret.
JohnD: as “Sealife Centres, Thorpe Park, Legoland and many more” are all owned by Merlin Entertainments I suspect this is a promotion, not a generous offer to readers. The Mail doesn’t give a proverbial if anyone actually enjoys their day out as long as it gets people to buy the paper. Merlin, of course, would rather like you to spend a lot of money.
And it took a brave,fearless Liberal democrat to expose this
terrible situation.
The house of Lords surely beckons and another LD dream
comes closer.
So,the Daily Mail ranks itself alongside Twitter and thus finally admits that it’s actually a vehicle for gossip rather than a reporter of news.
An alternative reading is that they’re claiming credit (yet again) for a campaign that had very little to do with them.
The sorry fact is the papers and a handful of MPs got themselves in a lather about this supposed vital ‘freedom of speech’ principle when it comes to talking about Giggs……but have all to a man & woman stayed completely silent about the criminal activity (one of which involves a company and highly toxic poisons being released into the environment, apparantly) which has been kept from the public thanks to those ’super-injunctions’.
But of course knowing the pathetic & sordid details about Giggs’ infidelity is what it’s all about, right?!
Hypocrital sad b@stards the lot of them.
Mail Man
Yes. I think that’s the important point about ’super-injunctions’: they can be used by large companies to cover up unethical behaviour.
Unfortunately, our tabloid press have become so degenerate that they are far more concerned about not being able to report which celebrities are screwing each other than about issues which genuinely affect the public interest.