tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17101458.post2579654627157778309..comments2023-10-31T15:14:05.373+00:00Comments on Hagley Road To Ladywood: Pup attack? It was fabricated!Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17101458.post-5838521586525854332009-11-05T09:44:56.897+00:002009-11-05T09:44:56.897+00:00I don't think it's as simple as that Richa...I don't think it's as simple as that Richard, the readership of the Sun and its ilk cannot be dismissed wholesale as idiots or illiterate.<br /><br />We all know a Daily Fail reader and it is rare that they fill our stereotype of them, I honestly believe that many people read those 'newspapers' and take the content with a pinch of salt or use a critical mind to unpick it, to a degree.<br /><br />However, I do believe that a proportion of the readership to rely heavily on it as a source of factual information and their view of the world is coloured by it, to some degree or another.Daniel Hoffmann-Gillhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02531802987223516482noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17101458.post-87139270574578345182009-11-05T09:19:49.049+00:002009-11-05T09:19:49.049+00:00It's fine to wring our hands about what goes i...It's fine to wring our hands about what goes into the populist media but why is it popular? Why do people read it and far worse, believe it? <br /><br />It seems to me that this is actually a fundamental criticism of our education system that we have produced the readers of the foaming mouthed tabloids. Clearly the Sun and Star readers lack essential literacy; those of the Mail and Express lack any critical facilities so they believe the nonsense that they read. Self evidently, of course, an educated population would not read such trash.<br /><br />I can't think of any other reason for the survival and prosperity of our gutter press.Richard Thttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17225331967587897653noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17101458.post-13151787806239177102009-11-04T19:45:39.716+00:002009-11-04T19:45:39.716+00:00I remember seeing this in the itv news and was gen...I remember seeing this in the itv news and was genuinely devastated. I love dogs. Every shape or size.<br />I was sad and now i'm angry. I mean...why would anyone make up such a story? The boy and his mother, appeared in the news, talking and explaining how these youths,etc...Why? What do you gain? Apart from a quick sum of cash....and demonizing a group of people, and the reputation of a city in the process.Miss Suffragettehttp://www.misssuffragette.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17101458.post-42064606862182767332009-11-04T15:00:55.591+00:002009-11-04T15:00:55.591+00:00The drama here is that there are so many people wh...The drama here is that there are so many people who truly take what the Mail and Express write as the gospel.<br /><br />They read about the story but they'll never know it was bull in the first place.socialist samhttp://www.socialistparty.org.uknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17101458.post-26896151402054942322009-11-04T12:03:28.379+00:002009-11-04T12:03:28.379+00:00What a surprise to see rentagob Philip Davies quot...What a surprise to see rentagob Philip Davies quoted AGAIN. The man's the Beaumont-Dark of our era; boy, am I happy that I fall half a mile outside his constituency.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17101458.post-57994521036091666382009-11-04T11:59:55.270+00:002009-11-04T11:59:55.270+00:00The froth and bile that sprews from the gob of the...The froth and bile that sprews from the gob of the right-wing populist media. Wil it never cease? Not in this present political climate, the media whips certain issues up into a frenzy, 'breakdown of society', 'hoodies hooligans running rampage'... and so on. The media creates nightmare scenarios that don't exist.HarpyMarxhttp://harpymarx.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17101458.post-45434616626629742872009-11-04T11:18:56.347+00:002009-11-04T11:18:56.347+00:00It really is utter hysteria, totally destructive a...It really is utter hysteria, totally destructive and negative, horrid, horrid journalism.Daniel Hoffmann-Gillhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02531802987223516482noreply@blogger.com