28-12-2009, 12:35 PM
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Re: 'Bonkers' police drop the word Christmas from poster to avoid upsetting other faiths
Don't you think the Mail should, itself, stop being mealy mouthed (or PC, if you like to use that term, first coined by the Ku Klux Klan, apparently; isn't that nice?) and, if they want to have a good old go at muslim bashing (because, let's not kid ourselves, that's all they're doing) Just Do It? Write whatever they want to write - it's a free country after all. Hypothesise over the failings of multiculturalism, rant over injustices, ridicule the burhka - do what they want but do it openly.I haven't read (won't read!) their poster-change article, so I cannot make any informed comment on it.
If you want to read up on the inglorious history of the Mail and it's owner Lord Rothermere (obviously one of us!) then google Mail, Rothermere, fascists, Moseley and catch up on its support of the British Union of Fascists, Oswald Moseley, Hitler et al. Their target then was the jews, not the muslims but hey - any minority in a storm, eh?
I am saddened by the way this thoroughly nasty alleged newspaper is making my country a nasty selfish one - greedy for itself and insensitive to the plight of others.
Edit Oh - and I almost forgot the wonderful human (not) article by Jan Moir almost immediately after the announcement of the death of Stephen Gately - to poor sod must have been hardly cold. Here's a blog from The Telegraph (hardly a bleeding heart leftie paper) about it and the reaction it caused. She later apologised, of course, but it's all so easy isn't it, to be snide behind newsprint? It's just a nasty, nasty, small-minded and cowardly publication. Yuk. (But I expect it keeps us all informed about the latest z list celebrities, so that's OK - bread and circuses etc)
28-12-2009, 03:53 PM
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Completely agree with DM - the mail is a nasty piece of work. Why do you think so many people call it the dailyhate
Unfortunately not everyone is wised up to how much effect media has on people's thoughts and opinions - so newspapers and other media outlets have a fundamental influence in shaping society. It's sad but true. I just wish more people thought for themselves and questioned the true intention of the media. Most are nasty pieces of work.
Anyone interested in how the media operates might want to check out Flat Earth News by Nick Davies. Here's part of one of the reviews of it on Amazon:
I'm sure you have noticed how very similar versions of the same stories are posted online by apparently independent and well funded news organisations - especially in America for news outside the US. This book explains why, and how the facts of these clone stories are often unchecked by the trusted organisations putting them into the public domain.
The book also covers the pernicious effects and influence of PR and also, perhaps most depressingly, the outright lying of major newspapers who are left barely challenged by the Press Complaints Commission and whom average people cannot afford to defend themselves against.
05-09-2019, 02:01 PM
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Re: 'Bonkers' police drop the word Christmas from poster to avoid upsetting other faiths
dont touch tradition - with Christmas 'its what we believe in growing up 'we dont need this modern day drama telling us we cant have it said /or printed on what ever ' we dont tell Hinduism or islam how to celebrate -so leave well alone I say …………….
05-09-2019, 02:15 PM
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Re: 'Bonkers' police drop the word Christmas from poster to avoid upsetting other faiths
Originally Posted by d00d
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Yes bring back the Winter Festival like we had before the Romans invaded. 
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