tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21544361.post5199114829471823775..comments2023-05-27T12:03:28.241+01:00Comments on Five Chinese Crackers: How left wing papers help push people away from left wing politicsFive Chinese Crackershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09395982651352498540noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21544361.post-82962806393148224062010-03-26T15:26:25.615+00:002010-03-26T15:26:25.615+00:00It isn't the 'left-wing' press' jo...It isn't the 'left-wing' press' job to tackle right-wing idiocy. It's their job to sell papers. They look to their better selling competitors output and just copy them.<br /><br />I think it's a foolish business decision, but a business decision is what it is.devolutehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11715964876194336958noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21544361.post-32963039739506391282010-03-26T14:53:20.230+00:002010-03-26T14:53:20.230+00:00Cheers, people.
Culfy: That was me. Ther have b...Cheers, people.<br /><br />Culfy: That was me. Ther have been loads of similar stories, some even lamenting that kids aren't allowed to climb up trees in the chuffing headline.<br /><br />Muslimanarchist: Perhaps the matter could have been handled differently, you're right. I suppose it depends on exactly how stroppy the woman was and how she behaved in front of the children.<br /><br />Merrick: Bang on the money with that one. <br /><br />Texas Pete: Aside from being made up and parroted by apparently left wing papers, this story is interesting because it bucks two tabloid tropes.<br /><br />Weirdly, one of Barrett's original concerns was that the kids was (actually he wasn't) six feet up a tree above a pavement, and a giant peedo could pluck him from the tree and run off with the kid tucked under his arm like a rugby ball.<br /><br />Paedo panic means a woman will charge into a school trying to drag a kid along with them, and the school will report her for acting like a paedo.<br /><br />Lenin: You're quite right, although I've never seen any of the Paris or Mumbai papers.Five Chinese Crackershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09395982651352498540noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21544361.post-38616582987602696212010-03-26T14:26:41.423+00:002010-03-26T14:26:41.423+00:00The Guardian and The Mirror shouldn't be class...The Guardian and The Mirror shouldn't be classified as left-wing papers. The fact is that we don't have a left-wing press in this country. If you want to see really left-wing newspapers, you should take a visit to Paris sometime. Or Mumbai.Richard Seymourhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03382239516001223229noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21544361.post-11576796869395544472010-03-26T12:51:05.402+00:002010-03-26T12:51:05.402+00:00So this "innocent passer-by" had broken ...So this "innocent passer-by" had broken into the school and attempted to talk to a young child.<br /><br />The Sun certainly normally has a different take on stories such as this. Isn't this a story of lax security opening children up to the advances of the millions of paedophiles the Sun say stalk our streets? <br /><br />What if the passer-by was not rebuked and the next week went on to abduct a child? The Sun would surely criticise the school for allowing them on the premises the previous week.Texas Petehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10019491382950410167noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21544361.post-12017091333971585442010-03-26T12:50:26.966+00:002010-03-26T12:50:26.966+00:00"the ambigous 'after'"
That'..."the ambigous 'after'"<br /><br />That's one of my favourite bits of media language, better than putting 'now' at the start of a headline.<br /><br />The 'after' is meant to be misleading. It is used where there isn't evidence to make the assertion they're wanting to publish.<br /><br />It most commonly appears in drugs stories. Leah Betts died 'after taking ecstasy' (when she actually died of coning of the brain thanks to drinking 15 pints of water in a couple of hours).<br /><br />Louis Wainwright and Nicholas Smith died 'after taking mephedrone' (as well as methadone, alcohol and who knows what else).merrickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10959849087751101034noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21544361.post-63560390539982886362010-03-26T09:27:31.256+00:002010-03-26T09:27:31.256+00:00Whilst I accept your political point, this is a st...Whilst I accept your political point, this is a story which need not have happened, had the fruit cake who climbed over the gate been dealt with diplomatically. But speaking as a former teacher, English Primary education suffers from a cultural insularity which too oftens leads to these kind of misunderstandings - parents included. The woman should have been 'disarmed', not confronted.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21544361.post-46631762035122649962010-03-26T06:23:54.867+00:002010-03-26T06:23:54.867+00:00Someone (I think it was you) once posted on a sun ...Someone (I think it was you) once posted on a sun article called 'APCs, an A-Z of Political Correctness'. Interestingly, one of the complaints was that school pupils weren't allowed to climb trees anymore.<br /><br /><br />You just can't win, can you?Nick Mazonowiczhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01672027642700116849noreply@blogger.com