Daily Mail sends a reporter to a memorial for Ed Milliband's uncle
f**k me, it's almost as if they had some vendetta against the poor bloke. Imagine what it would be like if anybody seriously thought he had a chance of being elected.
I never understand why newspapers are talked of as if they have any responsibility
to anyone other than their owner and shareholders.
Well, clearly the notion of journalistic ethics is laughably naive, but you can surely at least see
where the idea comes from.
In fairness, they're usually the same papers that say no companies should have responsibility to...
...anyone other than their owners.
I like the way BP are currently complaining that people are making stuff up when claiming compensation from them over the gulf of mexico oil spill.
Only found out about the Mail/Milli story today. So basically, the defender of British values has
been attacking their opponent, right?
One came to GB, fought in the RN in WW2 to uphold our values and became a public intellectual at (I believe) my alma mater.
The other said 'Hurrah for the Blackshirts!'
Hhhhhm. British values.
Still, I suppose they're right cos you can't wipe your arse or wrap your cod 'n' chips in a dead Millipede.
Yeah, Lord Rothermere, son of Lord Rothermere the renowned fascist
If nothing else, the brass neck is impressive
"Brass neck"
They're just trying to make money, jorge and playing up to their notoriety
is a very effective marketing tool.
I understand it as a concept, but it is incompatible with the public appetite
and, as a business, that is all that matters.
Legally, no they haven't. Morally, however, surely they have some responsibility to the truth.
Otherwise, they should change their name from 'newspapers' to, I dunno, '****rakers'
Well if you take a pure libertarian standpoint, that's true.
However, that way madness lies.
Surely anybody with a basic grasp of british history knows about the 'Hurrah for the Blackshits'...
thing though.
It takes a fair old lack of self-awareness, or possibly a cast brass neck, to overlook it and attack someone for "hating britain" based on one diary entry from a 16 year old.
I see in today's papers that Clegg was slagging the Mail off on LBC, and even that ex-Tory-Home c**t
Tim Montgomerie, who now runs The Times Opinion pages (where Finklestein. D., writes, and formely Gove, M.,) gave a mealey-mouthed apology.
Basically, every time the Mail spouts off, the reply shout just be "Exactly. Hurrah for the Black-shirts."
And leave it at that.
A bit of an unfortunate spelling mistake on Blackshirt there
though I'm not sure which headline they're more likely to replicate
"That way"is where we are already. Contrary to what many may think, it is not
the fear of the PCC or public damnation that curbs their behaviour (they may lose readers short term, but I'm sure they soon regain them, plus they also benefit from the morally indignant masses who pile onto their website boosting their traffic whenever there is a sniff of a contentious story), but instead the tiny fraction of human decency contained within the warped soul of its owners.
This is already as bad as it gets. And let's not kid ourselves. Everyone is on the gravytrain. Newsnight and the rest of the media gets an entire week of story out of it, and the non-mail reading public get their frisson of moral outrage.
So the Mail isn't allowed to criticise fascism because it
once - many years ago when none of its incumbants were at the paper - adopted an editorial line in praise of the blackshirts?
That's silly.
No, the Mail isn't allowed to attack people's parents on the basis they "Hate Britain"...
...because the father of the man who now runs the mail was an active supporter of a man who actually did hate britain.
You cant see the hypocrisy there?
"Hypocrisy"
Do you think, if they gave a flying c**tbubble about
hypocrisy - nay, if they weren't actively seeking such an accusation - they would have run that story?
They may be morally bankrupt scum, but they are FAR from stupid.
Well you did ask me to clarify my argument
And, not that I would ordinarily say they were stupid, this does seem like an incredibly stupid move.
My favourite of theirs is the sidebar on their website which is just totally indicative of the culture their print edition spends all of its time wringing their hands about.
Stop banging on about hypocrisy!
