BrigandDoom
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ORIGINAL: LadyEllen I'm glad he's going to the European courts to get the matter of privacy et al ruled upon The press are screaming like there's no tomorrow that this will curtail their freedom - well you know what? I dont care. This is another industry where they argued that they should govern themselves as to standards and so on - and it has been shown time and again to have failed. On an added note, the real problem is the stupid sods who keep buying these trashy Sunday "newspapers" that delight in ripping people's lives apart without any right of defence or reply. The same people who cried rivers when Princess Di was killed being chased for more trash to print for these same morons to read. "Gay Nazi Vicar Denies Satanic Sex Orgy" might be a joke headline from the Viz (adult) comic - but it so easily could appear in one of these publications. As I so often maintain - 70% of the population is stupid; shouldnt be allowed out to choose a paper, shouldnt have the funds to do so and have benefitted little from the ability to read. E I had an interesting chat with a media studies professor who I know. It seems that the kiss and tell tripe printed by many newspapers is actually having the opposite effect as the average reader is getting sick to death of reading about it. It stems from the time before Dianas death in the RTA where many newspapers were page to page "Royal divorce" etc etc. Then after all of the stick that Diana received, the papers changed tune and that was seen as being two faced by many. Despite the old saying "todays news, tomorrows chip papers" people do remember that sort of about face. If you looked at the NoTW's blog after the Mosley outing it was initially pro-NoTW until the public realised that they were being fed lies yet again and they soon turned. When they lost the case and went on the "moral offensive" a good 95% of the public response was very anti-NoTW. Now "Dodgy" Dacre of the Daily Wail has chipped in and if you look at various media and journalistic web forums, again a good 95% opf the users are anti-Dacre. Though I like the fact we have a "free press"m, they have abused their freedoms far too much. The different between "publoc interest" and "of intererst to the public" has been deliberately blured and the PCC carries on letting the Wapping mafia get away with it! When the French media were restricted in the early 1970's again, the French newspapers screamed "end of journalism" but it never happened. No newspapers closed, no journalists were sacked as a result of falling readership. You now get newspapers reporting genuine news, not which slapper shagged which premership footballer last weekend, or whats going on in the soaps! As our newspapers can not be trusted then if Mosley wins, which the smart money says he will, the EUHR will be modified and the Wapping mafia will have to play ball. I for one am looking forward to it!
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