Putting a Leash on Tabloids?

[chill]

Originally posted by venger

Tabloids can be useful, they helped greatly in the Ian Huntley case I believe...

 

Interesting you bring up the Huntley case. My aunt was deputy head at the childrens' school, and the Mirror, presumably trying to find another angle from which to exploit their deaths, wanted to interview her. She refused, so they just pretended they'd interviewed her instead, and ran a full page story, not a word of which was true! It's really kind of pathetic.

[chill]

Originally posted by fyybj

There isn't enough independant media around, the media has a very important role to play in informing people about current affairs etc but instead they produce blatent lies and propaganda in order to keep the cash rolling in. However, the public has a responsibility in that they should not allow to be spoonfed misinformation to them from a single source.

 

I think we are very lucky though these days to have the proliferation of blogs that cover politics and world affairs. They are not motivated by money (yet) and so don't have to resort to the tactics of the red tops to generate "news". Of course, they are nearly all pretty biased towards the beliefs of the author(s) so the same caveats about not getting all your info from a single source applies, but they undeniably add extra angles that simply aren't covered by the "mainstream" press.

[Strix]

I've only read the opening post, but YES there should at least be a penalty for the INDIVIDUAL who writes such bull, and causes so much heartache. A prison sentence should be enough to put the 'fireproof' brats off a little.

 

This isn't funny, but when a journalist was shot early in the Iraq war, it seemed to be just deserts. The press rerporting on the incident seemed to believe they were immune from bullets BECAUSE they're press.

 

I began reading an article about the beslan school, where it became apparent that the journalist writing had been 'an observer'. He seemed disgruntled that he was punched in the face. There he was, profiteering in peoples' despair and hampering the rescue, but HE feels affronted????

 

Nuff said.