What a strange world of media we live in

Discussion in 'General Discussion' started by Huyrob, Nov 27, 2022.

  1. i try not to.
     
  2. Huyrob

    Huyrob Supporter

    So true,
    I will follow the lessons of Matt Hancock…..bugger everything up then enter a new relationship, flee the country, sign up to a contract “ earning “ me 400k whilst still being paid for my old job. Then fly back with my reputation enhanced.
    ( if I didn’t watch or listen to this then ……? )
     
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  3. Jack Tatty

    Jack Tatty Supporter and teachers pet

    I’ll take that as a No then re Jeremy Vine :rolleyes:

    It’s worth remembering how many journalists , not just Brit ones, but international, put them selves in the firing line time and time again, and are killed or injured, in so many conflicts around the world, not to promote a political agenda, but simply to report what is going on.
     
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  4. If you read what I said. I said MY MATE says he should be shot. I believe it’s due to his anti brexit stance and his habit of continually running everything in the country down. Plus he’s a cyclist which says it all really.

    Do you run the Jeremy Vine fan club?
     
  5. Jack Tatty

    Jack Tatty Supporter and teachers pet

    Nope, think it’s fairly obvious from previous posts on the forum I think he’s rubbish :D

    I’ve never got any sense of political leanings from his show, just the sense that he talks marmite. And thanks, I did read your post, and I know it’s YOUR MATE who said that, I just said it it seemed a bit harsh :thumbsup:
     
  6. No chance of you sorting me out a cheap membership then?
     
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  7. Jack Tatty

    Jack Tatty Supporter and teachers pet

    I know some people, I’ll see what I can do :D
     
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  8. Just saying
    My eldest daughter is a newspaper editor,she has three papers and web sites to control, the papers obviously report on issues that are of interest to the public.she accepts as part of her role that death threats ,hate mail, threats to kidnap and murder her children, threats to burn her house while she sleeps,on line campaigns to discredit her ,twitter hate threads ,threat mail where the message is made from cut out newspaper wording.
    She's only doing a job
     
  9. Brexit is rubbish Nipper!
    You won a vote
    Based on nonsense

    but you didn’t win
    The Hospital’s
    The economy
    Migration
    You haven’t actually won anything
    Apart from the stupid blue passport
    That isn’t even made in the Uk ,
    You clowns haven’t actually done anything except for dividing people ,
    I hope that the young people
    do vote one day to return us back in .
    Hopefully there won’t be too many angry inward looking pensioners next time ,
    And the idiots who think that it’s an option
    Not to vote should at least be made to attend the poling station ,
    That is just Bone idle .

    I think James oBrian is ok you don’t like him because you can’t beat him can you Nipper :)
     
  10. Jack Tatty

    Jack Tatty Supporter and teachers pet

    That is disgusting. These internet cowards, they must leave some kind of trace. Start prosecuting these scumbags, fine them and/or lock them up. To confuse freedom of speech with the right to abuse and make threats to people they don’t even know! I cannot believe there isn’t the wherewithal to do something about these low life wasters :mad:

    edit: funnily enough they’ve just been talking about the Online Harms Bill that is going through Parliament on WATO on R4.
     
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  11. The police are only interested in investigating if they can prove that 2 threats came from the same source ,it needs more than one threat to become harassment ,they would investigate if something actually happened but mostly these threats come from people who think it's fun or are all mouth and no trousers.
    There has been one nasty threat that could be traced quite easy as it referred to a court case but again the police could not take action as nothing happened
     
  12. Jack Tatty

    Jack Tatty Supporter and teachers pet

    That just doesn’t seem right to me. I’m not that well versed in law but I didn’t think something had to actually “happen”. If someone is caused alarm or distress I thought that alone was enough to take action. I can easily imagine a situation where someone is driven to take the law into their own hands because the agencies that are supposed to protect them can’t or won’t.,
     
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  13. Zed

    Zed Gradually getting grumpier

    It's one thing if you are mentally stable to deal with it. Not a good thing but being able to rationalise things is certainly helpful.
     
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  14. The job is very stressful on its own ,she could well do without all the Marmitee.
     
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  15. Zed

    Zed Gradually getting grumpier

    I have my own story which prompted my comment. I would love to tell it but this isn't the time or place.
     
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  16. I can see where your coming from having read some of your previous posts,I may not have commented but I get it
     
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  17. I didn’t say I don’t like James oBrian especially. I listen to his show and the bird that was on five live after him a couple of times a week. I don’t really like any of the people I listed. I want people to tell me the news, not their opinion, whether that be left or right. Tell people facts and let them draw their own conclusions. Makes me laugh when people complain about politicians spinning everything but are blind to media personalities doing the same.
     

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