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05 Nov 09
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Why, when people die in an accident or something that is fairly newsworthy for being out of the ordinary, is it now accepted practice for the news to be filled up with all sorts of quotes and tributes from families, neighbours, workmates or blokes from down the local?
Has the news become a womans magazine or something?
Surely the news is there to report the news? ie: events. To tell people about things that have happened and to report the facts. Not character reports on unknown people who just happen to be caught up in newsworthy events.
Not to act lke Woman's Own and try to get all their daft readers to feel like they are best mates with everyone in the news and knew them so well.
Yes, anyone dieing is a sad event and it hits people hard. But the news isn't the place for these constant over the top tributes to people who die in car crashes or any other noteworthy addidents.
For a start, no-one ever dies and has quotes saying "Well, they were a bit of a ba$tard actually" so these 'tributes' are completely hollow and could be predicted every time by any fifth rate script writer. They are always tremendous people and wonderful characters apparently.
Report the news, ffs, and stop pander to clowns who want it dumbed down so that every story is some sort of tear jerker that they have to empathise with.
Has the news become a womans magazine or something?
Surely the news is there to report the news? ie: events. To tell people about things that have happened and to report the facts. Not character reports on unknown people who just happen to be caught up in newsworthy events.
Not to act lke Woman's Own and try to get all their daft readers to feel like they are best mates with everyone in the news and knew them so well.
Yes, anyone dieing is a sad event and it hits people hard. But the news isn't the place for these constant over the top tributes to people who die in car crashes or any other noteworthy addidents.
For a start, no-one ever dies and has quotes saying "Well, they were a bit of a ba$tard actually" so these 'tributes' are completely hollow and could be predicted every time by any fifth rate script writer. They are always tremendous people and wonderful characters apparently.
Report the news, ffs, and stop pander to clowns who want it dumbed down so that every story is some sort of tear jerker that they have to empathise with.
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cos death is the "new" living
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Axtually, add celebrity deaths to that too.
I couldn't give a feck about every two bit chancer's opinion of Michael Jackson or whoever. Just report that he is dead, what happened and what is going to happen, ffs. Don't have dragged up old women like Elizabeth Taylor telling everyone who he was Jesus reincarnate or something |
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I was thinking this the other day with reference to the bloke who was killed by the gang who nicked his girlfriend's hat.
Apparently he was a lovely bloke, salt of the earth etc. |
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yes usually a lot of **
but am salt of the earth etc |
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and people who die young always had a bright future etc........
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Yeah never the lazy slobs who can't be arsed at school.
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the guy that died from alcohol
"he was q uiet guy, only ever had a few beers with his mates........." |
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"everything to live for" always had a smile on his face" "loved his mum" etc
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"always there for the kids".............(while out on the p!ss)
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I think my favourite example of this nonsense happened earlier this year, quickly reported on ChitChat by an eagle-eyed forumite.
One of those ghastly ITV morning programmes had phoned up LIONEL BLAIR of all people (maybe he was the only person who had got out of bed by then?) to ask him for his reaction to the Jackson death and how he would remember him. LB responded by saying that he had never ever met Jackson. Marvellous. |
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Ha, remember that, Alun. Classic stuff. I think he only mentioned it after wittering on for a few minutes after Wacko
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Mind you, who wouldn't want a tribute for Lionel Blair
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Did he ever find his dog?
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The Jackson media lunacy was truly a sight to behold. All sorts of people that you hadn't heard of since around 1984 getting phonecalls, and even more people who hadn't had a hit since 1963 being interviewed.
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It gets very surreal, you know it,s all nonsense.
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The people who control the news don't want you to know what's really going on, so they fill it with shi'ite.
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Well done Egg
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BBC1. 8am. A bird flirting with a bloke on a sofa discussing who was voted off strictly. Country is knackered.
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terrible coverage of the death of ken dodd's parent's canine imo
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Live Forever 05 Nov 22:12
Why, when people die in an accident or something that is fairly newsworthy for being out of the ordinary, is it now accepted practice for the news to be filled up with all sorts of quotes and tributes from families, neighbours, workmates or blokes from down the local? Has the news become a womans magazine or something? Surely the news is there to report the news? ie: events. To tell people about things that have happened and to report the facts. Not character reports on unknown people who just happen to be caught up in newsworthy events. Not to act lke Woman's Own and try to get all their daft readers to feel like they are best mates with everyone in the news and knew them so well. Yes, anyone dieing is a sad event and it hits people hard. But the news isn't the place for these constant over the top tributes to people who die in car crashes or any other noteworthy addidents. For a start, no-one ever dies and has quotes saying "Well, they were a bit of a ba$tard actually" so these 'tributes' are completely hollow and could be predicted every time by any fifth rate script writer. They are always tremendous people and wonderful characters apparently. Report the news, ffs, and stop pander to clowns who want it dumbed down so that every story is some sort of tear jerker that they have to empathise with. It all started with the irrational grief-arama that was Diana's death and we've been in a steady decline ever since. The flip side of sensationalising news is that we now get 24 hour news channels reporting stuff that isn't news. Sky News had live coverage of the McCann's plane coming in to land at Heathrow and detailed it as 'BREAKING NEWS'. It seems to be a case of either/or now; there's no time for the middle ground of 'facts'. |
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...ditto the 2006 England World Cup team's aeroplane taking off for Germany, Classic non-news.
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Yep
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