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NOTW/Huntley
Posted: Sun Jun 15, 2003 4:29 am
by jj
Oh, great...yet another triumph for British 'journalism'.......
Right up there with the Gorden Kaye 'scoop'.
Nice one, people.
I don't know how they sleep at nights.
Re: NOTW/Huntley
Posted: Sun Jun 15, 2003 4:55 am
by magoo(the real one)
Are you referring to the pictures of him in his cell taken by a reporter who posed as a prison officer?
If they carry on like this they will fuck the trial. Remember the last big trial that collapsed due to the moronic tabloids. Then they started moaning about the defendant not facing justice. Well if they had kept out of it and not prejudiced the jury justice might have been done. Will they never learn!
I wouldnt wipe my arse with the News of The World because more shite would come of the pages than off my arse. I would wipe my arse on editor Rebecca Wade though just to stop her from running stupid campaigns that lead to injustice. It was her fault that that peadiatricians house got firebombed by the moronic lynch mob who thought "peadiatrician" meant kiddie fiddler.
Re: NOTW/Huntley
Posted: Sun Jun 15, 2003 4:58 am
by magoo(the real one)
What Gordon Kaye scoop? Hes dead aint he?
Re: NOTW/Huntley
Posted: Sun Jun 15, 2003 8:15 am
by Ace
The 'scoop' Magoo referred to was the Leeds Utd trial I believe. The Gordon Kaye 'scoop' was the 'cruising' on Clapham Common whilst walking his dog I think?
I stay clear of Sunday tabloid garbage, too busy nursing a cunt of a hangover!!!!!!!!!
Re: NOTW/Huntley
Posted: Sun Jun 15, 2003 8:29 am
by Ace
To take a Joe Strummer quote:
'You have to give the people something to read about on Sundays'
From The Leader, from the 1980 album Sandinista!
Re: NOTW/Huntley
Posted: Sun Jun 15, 2003 9:54 am
by The Last Word
And to quote Dennis Potter on tabloids: "Is this what we've become?"
The Last Word
Re: NOTW/Huntley
Posted: Sun Jun 15, 2003 10:33 am
by jj
Exactly.
Just when I thought they were beginning to behave themselves, they go and screw up again, big-time.
Eejits............
Re: NOTW/Huntley
Posted: Sun Jun 15, 2003 10:35 am
by jj
Photographed in a hospital with brain-damage, after a car smash-up.
VERY tasteful..........
Re: NOTW/Huntley
Posted: Sun Jun 15, 2003 11:55 am
by Ivan Erection
At least with the Daily Mirror you get the feeling they are arsed about what they are campaigning for.The News of the World campaigns seem to be run in order for people to cough up money for a paper so that they can get their"Bring in law X"forum to be sent to Downing Street.On the sky news paper review last night it said Prince William was engaged(i thyink it was the NOTW).We can now confidently conclude that the News of the World couldnt give the steam of their piss as far as the truth is concerned.They realise that the royals are not te types to sue.And even if people who have been wronged do sue they know that they made so much profit from such a big story that the lawsuit payout is only a minor expense.They like to do things that they know they can get away with.The Sun seems to have some sort of Eminem fixation and is constantly writing half truths about him,safe in the knowledge that he has never even seen a copy of the Sun and so is unlikely to ever see the story.They are all in a shite barrel but the NOTW beats em all.I love the way that when talking about another newspaper the tabloid always calls them"a downmarket tabloid rag"or something along those lines.
Any po faced moralising about crime and punishment by this racist hooligans newspaper is surplus to requirements.
Re: NOTW/Huntley
Posted: Sun Jun 15, 2003 12:02 pm
by Caractacus
During the week, another NOTW expose blew up in the courts, when the trial against some ex boy band type collapsed due to lack of evidence. The main witness, someone the Screws had paid 15 grand to up front, decided not to bother going to court and buggered off abroad. After the judge slagged off the (toilet) paper, the NOTW responded by saying it had done all the hard research and it was up to the police to do the rest.
Part of the problem is that the industry is self-regulating, and the PCC has Murdoch minions on it. Therefore, no teeth.