Good Riddance - A Thread About the News of the World (1 Viewer)

[David Kronenbourg]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14052690

 

[washingcattle]

Smugness avalanche.



Still fair play to him. Like I said in the new years thread

Let this be the year you smote your enemies.

 

[Unicron]

act of cowardice. once NOTW is gone, they can legally start to shred the evidence in the absence of a court order.

Is that true? I read that as NOTW is a brand within NI rather than a business in itself they won't be able to but I didn't hear it confirmed one way or the other.

 

[MilanPan!c]

Is it true? I think they'll pretend it's true, slash and burn, and then bribe their way out of consequences later.

 

[Unknown Convict]

Is that true?

according to this guy on bbc news yesterday:

 

[ann post]

i like how you dudes are all pitching solidarity around shite press.

 

[Anarcho Munk]

i like how you dudes are all pitching solidarity around shite press.

Solidarity with workers who are suddenly (and draconically) out of a job, not the Murdoch press. One doesn't imply the other.

 

[ann post]

well its not like they were doctors in roscommon. they worked at a shite newspaper. they made that decision at some point.

 

[ann post]

Lot's of innocent folks losing their jobs, so that Murdoch can protect his business interests? Yep.

you give a shit because its the press and its a 'hot issue'. that many people loose their jobs in ireland basically weekly, for similar except worse reasons.

 

[MilanPan!c]

you give a shit because its the press and its a 'hot issue'. that many people loose their jobs in ireland basically weekly, for similar except worse reasons.

I give a shit cause I know some of those people. Though props for your cynicism, it is pretty impressive.

 

[MilanPan!c]

i like how you dudes are all pitching solidarity around shite press.

weird weird attitude

 

[ann post]

were your mates complicit in this phone hacking thing??

 

[ann post]

weird weird attitude

explain that??

 

[MilanPan!c]

explain that??

I find your attitude, that people must be dererving of "bad" because they work for a business you don't like to be very odd.

I don't like lots of businesses, but shit, man, we all gotta make money... as long as you aren't the one hacking phones or hell, actively engaged in making he world a worse place then I think it's pretty nuts that you should be expected to just... accept that you deserve bad things happening to you, because you, for instance, work for Rupert Murdoch.

Matt Groening works for Rupert Murdoch. If he got hit by a bus, I wouldn't say... "well, he got what he deserved, because Fox News is shit".

 

[ann post]

I find your attitude, that people must be dererving of "bad" because they work for a business you don't like to be very odd.

I didn't actually say that milan, thats something from inside your head that are projecting on me.

 

[MilanPan!c]

I didn't actually say that milan, thats something from inside your head that are projecting on me.

You said:

"they worked at a shite newspaper. they made that decision at some point"

To me your obvious implication is that this decision to work there has resulted in this outcome for them personally.

If that's not what you meant by that, what did you mean?

 

[ann post]

well you seem to have lost the first part of that post in quoting it, did your mates from that paper teach you to quote people out of context?

To me your obvious implication

sentences that start like that are generally about things that are coming out of your head. i think you have a weird and complex attitude.

 

[MilanPan!c]

well you seem to have lost the first part of that post in quoting it, did your mates from that paper teach you to quote people out of context?sentences that start like that are generally about things that are coming out of your head. i think you have a weird and complex attitude.

sorry, but none of that is true.

Your initial comment about them not being doctors does nothing to explain or imply an alternate meaning of the subsequent statement.

And many many things are implied intentionally, thousands or things on a daily basis. Everyone that understands an implicaion is not hearing voices or otherwise delusional.

Here, just tell us what you were saying, that statement you made isn't clear to me. Explain it please.

 

[ann post]

sorry, but none of that is true

you did drop the first half of my post, you did quote it out of context by doing that, sentences that start with 'to me your obvious implication' are coming from you head (fact), and if you can say all those things arent true so blatantly, then i maintain that your attitude is possibly weird and complex.

Your initial comment about them not being doctors does nothing to explain or imply an alternate meaning of the subsequent statement.
And many many things are implied intentionally, thousands or things on a daily basis. Everyone that understands an implicaion is not hearing voices or otherwise delusional.

That wasn't my initial comment, that was a reaction to you and anarcho's knee jerking about me saying specifically that the journos were shit anyways. The context of roscommon is the A&E dept closing down due to spending cuts and being replaced by some piece of crap. If you want to waste another hour reading this thread you'll see that i was always talking about the journo's and not the floor staff and i kinda get the impression that you missed the reference to the roscommon story which has much worse implications for ireland than a newspaper dissapearing an 30 people hitting the dole. But because they are hacks its front page, and roscommon is a footnote.

anyways, were your mates complicit in the phone hacking thing?

 

[washingcattle]

Right so a few months ago I was drinking. I know how unlikely that sounds. I ended up meeting a few people who worked as journos. It took me about 5 minutes of questions to establish that they worked for a tabloid. Now this is key to what I think your original argument may have been about.

After I found out they worked for a tabloid I was suprised to say th least because they had struck me as an articulate and intelligent bunch of folks after telling me they all looked slightly ashamed, defeated and embarrassed now obviously I made jokes like well that's "four years of journalism college going to waste then" and obviously they had heard all these gags before but equally obvious was that they actually felt the same as we do. They are wasting away in there jobs. If there is a solidarity movement between rag journos it's basically saying "yes we are the devil and we have symapathy for the other devils" No one gets into journalism to work for the Sun. Fact. The majority of journos for tabloids failled to get better jobs, a minority are just socially and morally inept cretins who ended up there because of their failings. They are the macdonalds workers of the print media and they know this . Now I for one don't read the tabloids I have no sympathy for the scum at the top or the sociopaths that carried out all of this but I do have sympathy for anyone who takes a job that's beneath their expectations so they can pay their way, gets trapped in their shit job and then loses it during a recession because of the actions of some loonatic.


Just saying.