Re: Last minute Olympic fun : Sat Jul 28, 2012 3:38 pm  

cod'ead wrote: Keeping up their tradition of rarely failing to disappoint, The Dally Wail: NHS Disgracefully Glorified More piss-poor sensationalism from a sensationalist rag Not so much the Mail and their agenda but personally i think the family of Kane Gorny are right to be angry by it, as they feel let down by them.

cod'ead wrote: Keeping up their tradition of rarely failing to disappoint, The Dally Wail: NHS Disgracefully Glorified More piss-poor sensationalism from a sensationalist rag Not so much the Mail and their agenda but personally i think the family of Kane Gorny are right to be angry by it, as they feel let down by them.

Re: Last minute Olympic fun : Sat Jul 28, 2012 3:40 pm  

cod'ead wrote: Keeping up their tradition of rarely failing to disappoint, The Dally Wail: NHS Disgracefully Glorified More piss-poor sensationalism from a sensationalist rag They've closed the comments and hidden the six already made. I think they might have already taken an absolute battering over that piece.

cod'ead wrote: Keeping up their tradition of rarely failing to disappoint, The Dally Wail: NHS Disgracefully Glorified More piss-poor sensationalism from a sensationalist rag They've closed the comments and hidden the six already made. I think they might have already taken an absolute battering over that piece.

Re: Last minute Olympic fun : Sat Jul 28, 2012 4:34 pm  

Mintball wrote:

They've closed the comments and hidden the six already made. I think they might have already taken an absolute battering over that piece.

I'm not surprised, its probably as close to outright racism that an editor thought they could get without being prosecuted - you can only assume what the original drafts must have been like.

Its good however that the Olympics have driven the extreme right wing commentators and politicians out into the open - we know exactly how their minds work now and where they would like us to be in their utopia - we knew they were still there from the last time a Conservative government was in power, they just don't fly their colours very often, they must be feeling brave now.

Re: Last minute Olympic fun : Sat Jul 28, 2012 4:37 pm  

Mintball wrote:

They've closed the comments and hidden the six already made. I think they might have already taken an absolute battering over that piece.

Must have re-opened them.

Re: Last minute Olympic fun : Sat Jul 28, 2012 4:45 pm  

If there was ever an arguement for no more free press, that article is it.

Re: Last minute Olympic fun : Sat Jul 28, 2012 5:42 pm  

This was supposed to be a representation of modern life in England but it is likely to be a challenge for the organisers to find an educated white  middle-aged mother and black father living together with a happy family in such a set-up.

Am I reading this correctly? Are they really saying what it looks like they're saying?

Re: Last minute Olympic fun : Sat Jul 28, 2012 6:11 pm  

Rock God X wrote:

Am I reading this correctly? Are they really saying what it looks like they're saying?

Yep, and thats apparently the approved version, the one that got past the editor and the lawyers.

Re: Last minute Olympic fun : Sat Jul 28, 2012 6:25 pm  

Horatio Yed wrote:

Not so much the Mail and their agenda but personally i think the family of Kane Gorny are right to be angry by it, as they feel let down by them.

You obviously either didn't bother reading the article or are having trouble with basic English Language comprehension. Otherwise you'd have seen this bit:

How does the family of Kane – and indeed the thousands of others we have heard of and the many more we haven’t – feel when they see the NHS being shamefully glorified at the biggest sporting bonanza in the world?

Sick to the stomach, I imagine

He "imagines" how the family may feel. How the fook does he know how they may feel?

It's shoddy journalism of th very worst kind, eagerly supped up by clueless idiots like you.

Re: Last minute Olympic fun : Sat Jul 28, 2012 6:27 pm  

Big Graeme wrote:

Must have re-opened them.

No they ain't

Re: Last minute Olympic fun : Sat Jul 28, 2012 6:32 pm  

cod'ead wrote:

It's shoddy journalism of th very worst kind, eagerly supped up by clueless idiots like you.

If I were a journalist I'd be offended by anyone calling it that.

100% Wire wrote:

If there was ever an arguement for no more free press, that article is it.

No, really it isn't. Its an argument for responsible journalism.