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Re: More Sordid Accusations Against Neil Gaiman Expected to Emerge

carlosfandango — Fri, 12 Jul 2024 05:10:56 -0000

Although writing a slanted pile of utter speculative tosh gets you published, evidently...

Re: Police Hunt ‘Foreign’ Man Who Raped Male Student in Alley in Plymouth, England

carlosfandango — Tue, 25 Sep 2018 04:38:54 -0000

Jack - please, if you're going to nick copy from a local journalist, at least do it properly. There was nothing in the original article which suggested the suspect was "foreign", merely that he had an Jamaican sounding accent.

Re: Hillary's Steals Anti-Trump Mantra From 'The Office' [VIDEO] | The Daily Caller

carlosfandango — Thu, 30 Mar 2017 09:48:40 -0000

Whereas... http://www.thesiouxempire.c...

Re: The hypocrisy of the ‘Free Melania’ feminists

carlosfandango — Wed, 25 Jan 2017 08:26:01 -0000

http://www.spectator.co.uk/...

Re: Fresh wave of redundancies at Telegraph

carlosfandango — Wed, 25 May 2016 10:27:50 -0000

Before or after shutting down a newspaper, sacking the staff and offering them and their contacts up to prosecutors...?

Re: Press reform campaigners attacked as 'worthless hypocrites' over stance on John Whittingdale's private life

carlosfandango — Fri, 15 Apr 2016 13:32:09 -0000

I'm appalled Mike - it took you three whole hours to bite...

Re: Press reform campaigners attacked as 'worthless hypocrites' over stance on John Whittingdale's private life

carlosfandango — Thu, 14 Apr 2016 12:29:40 -0000

Director of the Scottish Newspaper Society John McLellan is being either disingenuous or a bellend.
It's not about anyone hounding Whitless out of his job because he's knobbing a hooker - it's about WHY the papers which chose not to run the story - claiming it wasn't in the public interest - came to that conclusion, considering they are currently demanding they be allowed to print a three-way celeb gang bang and happy to use hookers to snag a Lord in a bra or an MP sexting a bimbo.
This becomes all the more important when its recognised what Whitless does as a job - he's in charge of whether Leveson gets sorted and whether the BBC gets chopped up into little bits and is no longer any kind of competition to said papers and paper owners.
Everyone else gets this - what's so hard for John and his mates at the Sun to comprehend? Unless, as I suggested, they're being disingenuous, or bellends...

Re: Digital and TV expansion puts youth media brand Vice on track to make £100m turnover this year

carlosfandango — Mon, 11 Jan 2016 06:32:23 -0000

Oh... you think? Bit of reading... http://gawker.com/vice-is-v... and http://gawker.com/the-revol...

Re: Sun still most popular UK newspaper with more than 13m readers, according to survey

carlosfandango — Mon, 11 Jan 2016 06:26:09 -0000

Whereas the Sun... is much more absorbent and cheaper than a four-pack of bog roll...

Re: Jeremy Corbyn pledges support for threatened Freedom of Information Act at regional press lunch

carlosfandango — Fri, 08 Jan 2016 03:44:11 -0000

You were correct in your spelling Shahid, but possibly could have used brackets around the "as opposed to fact-based 'journalism'" to not confuse Jon...

Re: Newsquest's remote subbing hubs condemned as failure after revelation most headlines are re-written

carlosfandango — Tue, 05 Jan 2016 11:20:07 -0000

Erm, if you do some research Patrick and
read the Evening Standard (http://www.standard.co.uk/n...
you'll find train drivers (especially Underground drivers) are well paid
because their unions fight like mad for them. And as for NUJ "choosing to
defend journalists they approve of" you may be surprised, as were most
people, that the NUJ fought very hard to defend News of the World reporters who
were turned over by News Intl, despite them signing up to work for such a nasty
company. If that doesn't show their ability to fight on behalf of all journos, then
what will...

Re: Newsquest's remote subbing hubs condemned as failure after revelation most headlines are re-written

carlosfandango — Mon, 04 Jan 2016 11:29:37 -0000

So, why *are* 80 percent of the headlines being rewritten Patrick?

Re: Ex-BBC director general: 'Diminution' of BBC news offering a 'very big risk to take - and bad for the British public'

carlosfandango — Tue, 29 Dec 2015 03:10:12 -0000

This from the guy who minutes after taking over as DG instigated cuts to every Current Affairs programme before setting about yet more cuts during his tenure. Nice one Mark.

Re: Reporter suspended for saying on Facebook he was 'ashamed to work for BBC' over Tyson Fury stance

carlosfandango — Tue, 29 Dec 2015 03:07:20 -0000

Unless he punches a co-worker in the mouth you mean, whereupon The Sun will begin a campaign to save his job...

Re: Local authorities want FoI requests to 'set out public interest' to reduce 'burden'

carlosfandango — Tue, 08 Dec 2015 12:49:39 -0000

I think East Northamptonshire council are taking the piss!

Quote: East Northamptonshire Council said: "We fully support the right of the media to use investigative journalism to pursue stories that are in the public interest (e.g. MPs’ expenses).

As I recall, a newspaper had to pay for the full information because the FOI application repeatedly made by Heather Brooke was knocked back time and time again. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/...

Re: 2015 British Journalism Awards in association with Audi: Full list of finalists

carlosfandango — Thu, 05 Nov 2015 13:51:41 -0000

That's hardly a rant unless you find those gentle words a bit harsh, poppet. I certainly didn't say there were any booze, birds, bingo and tits in the list, did I? Let me re-read my words... Hmm, no, I don't believe I did. I think, if you read my words again, I was suggesting that I hoped the Press Gazette's fresh approach to the awards last year meant we wouldn't be going *back* to those kind of stories and holding them up as the champagne of journalism. Which, if you read up on the puerile spats at awards as reported by Piers in his diligently accurate cough) memoirs, were a staple figure in the days when a mobile phone's PIN was 1234... I'd much rather see the kind of reports we now see in the list rather than then. Let's leave the bad old days behind yeah? They've caused us too much trouble. How's that pickle? Gentle enough for you? *pinches Mikes cheek in a grandfatherly way and gives it a cheeky shake*
But I am chuffed you note my "Daily Telegraph - Local?" query.

Re: 2015 British Journalism Awards in association with Audi: Full list of finalists

carlosfandango — Thu, 05 Nov 2015 11:33:56 -0000

Oh, I'm sure they're all lovely Mike. It's just that I was hoping we were going to see a new "no footballer/soap-star shagging story" rule brought in. Otherwise, before you know it, we'll be back to the Vodaphone-sponsored awards with Coulson and Morgan holding sway over each win again. You remember those days? I don't recall it turning out so well (hint: bloody Leveson)

Re: 2015 British Journalism Awards in association with Audi: Full list of finalists

carlosfandango — Thu, 05 Nov 2015 11:23:32 -0000

Whereas last year they didn't appear at all. Perhaps the bar is being lowered Mike.

Re: 2015 British Journalism Awards in association with Audi: Full list of finalists

carlosfandango — Thu, 05 Nov 2015 11:21:31 -0000

I don't get how Gilligan of the Daily and Sunday Telegraph is up for Local Hero award. Wasn't that category meant for regional/local journalists and NOT the nationals?

Re: Jeremy Corbyn makes light of newspaper attacks in first Labour conference speech

carlosfandango — Tue, 06 Oct 2015 13:46:23 -0000

I'm telling you you're generalising and stereotyping because... you are. I know it must be a bit of a shock to be on the wrong side of facts, but sweetcheeks, that's where you've put yourself by coming out with tosh you're unable to back up.

You quote: "ALL of the press except the Guardian had stood squarely behind the hackers".
Yet when pressed to prove this you come back with no evidence. At all.
That's a fact. You've been unable, or more likely unwilling, to provide evidence to refute that. And you won't find that evidence, because there isn't any. Because it didn't happen. I'm fed up with you talking rubbish and palming it off as informed evidence. It's not. Get over yourself Shahid - you are wrong on the points I pointed out. Nothing more, nothing less.

So, I will show you where Leveson distinguished between region and national press because you couldn't be bothered to look for yourself. Do y'self a favour and read them: http://www.echo-news.co.uk/... and here http://www.holdthefrontpage...

Lastly, the press is not dying, just the format, which is changing. News is still being gobbled up and from where I sit, more news is being read online than has been on paper for decades. I recall other people saying cinema was dead in the 80s after invention of video. They thought they were so right too. Turns out their predicitons were wrong. As for the "public don't care much"? No Shahid - *you* don't care much. And yet you regularly visit this site to spill ill-informed bile. You're heart's in the right place - I whole-heartedly agree the practices by some elements in the press have been appalling. But some in the press have been saying that about the other side for years. You've just arrived late to the party. So, yes, you're heart's in the right place. Your keyboard-warrior fingers and ability to back up your more hyperbolic theories are not...
PS - it's not good form to cry to the crowd when someone turns that spotlight you wield back on you. That's what I mean by lowering the tone. If we wanted a Premiership footballer with a tendancy to dive, we'd have put one on order.

Re: Jeremy Corbyn makes light of newspaper attacks in first Labour conference speech

carlosfandango — Mon, 05 Oct 2015 15:15:12 -0000

Shahid, I am no longer engaging with as you clearly do not know what you're talking about, or worse, can't be arsed to learn. If you want to come and learn something new and perhaps risk having your very narrow view of journalism enlightened, then I'm happy to do it. But if you're going to parrot out this uneducated, ignorant, gumpf as if it's fact, then enough's enough. Even Leveson highlighted a huge difference between national and regional. Do some reading sunbeam. Additionally, no, not all regionals reporters "aspire" to work on nationals. There is more money in nationals, yes, but there's a certain element that goes with it, and not everyone enjoys that form of journalism. The most depressing stuff about reading your tirades is your sweeping generalisations and stereotyping. You assume and assume and assume.
For instance, you assume "you're all the same". I don't agree with hacking and never did and I know lots of local reporters (and some nationals) who feel the same. I disagree with paying public officials - and never have over the past 18 years - and I've worked with lots of people who feel the same at both local and national level. Now, not every paper has that view. But because you can't be bothered to think that anyone in journalism thinks differently, you come out with your droning single-minded mantra "you're all the same" bilge. Seriously mate, piss off to Vice, you're actually lowering the tone here...

Re: Jeremy Corbyn makes light of newspaper attacks in first Labour conference speech

carlosfandango — Mon, 05 Oct 2015 11:01:48 -0000

You're talking utter bollocks Shahid. Regional press did not stand "squarely behind the hackers" and if you can find examples of that I'll eat my notebook. As for Save our Sources, I don't care who the feck you are, I don't want cops filching through my mobile phone calls to check out who I'm speaking to. And to ram this home to you - when I've been interviewing coppers who've whistleblown about corrupt cops, or victims of historic child abuse are alerting me to new cases, then my sources are my source and that means they don't get handed over because some middle-class Hooray Henry actor thinks what the Sun did is what everyone does. If you're going to be a compaigning advocate of ethical reporting, it'd help if you stopped frothing at the mouth and denoucing everyone as Murdoch's minions. You sound like McCarthy, screaming that the Reds are everywhere and anyone who points out your mistake is another cheerleader for Hacking. FFS mate, get a grip.

Re: Jeremy Corbyn makes light of newspaper attacks in first Labour conference speech

carlosfandango — Fri, 02 Oct 2015 16:43:51 -0000

Yes. Indeed. You're pointing out stuff many of us are fully aware of.
Now start writing the full list of local newspapers. I'll wait. *taps foot*
Admittedly, there's the "big four" firms which now, sadly, own most of them, they are not "hacking conniving shits". And yet, for some unfathomable reason, those journalists keep getting lumped in with their less-ethical national brethren by, as I said before, dullard bellends.

Re: Jeremy Corbyn makes light of newspaper attacks in first Labour conference speech

carlosfandango — Fri, 02 Oct 2015 16:11:32 -0000

I know I'm being harsh Shahid, but not all coppers are bastards, not all women "want it" and not all journalists are hackers... Anyone who consistently bangs on and on and on and on that ALL British journlists are hacking, conniving, corrupt shits is, frankly, a dullard bellend. And no-one wants to be a dullard bellend do they...?

Re: Former NoW political editor: Ashcroft's Cameron-pig head story 'would not have passed the basic standards demanded by a tabloid newspaper'

carlosfandango — Tue, 22 Sep 2015 15:44:00 -0000

Aye - but one would hope that the nationals, who like to consider themselves the Premiership of the journalism world, would not indulge in lazy stories. Yet they appear far more likely to do so, expecting their well-paid lawyer to sort out any irritating problems, like dealing with defamation matters. Meanwhile, the less well paid and lawyerless locals keep at the coalface in what the nationals would like to consider the Johnstone's Paint Trophy leagues - with less fouling and more sportsmanship...