Petition launched to 'shutdown' Guardian re links to Slavery, Confederacy etc

[Borchester]

Forget links to slavery, they should be shut down for terrible reporting.  Horrible outfit - shoot the lot of them

That's been tried: In 2015, Saïd and Chérif Kouachi, forced their way into the offices of the French satirical weekly newspaper Charlie Hebdo in Paris. Armed with rifles and other weapons, they killed 12 people and injured 11 others.
Who's to judge whose reporting offends who and becomes a capital offence...?

The Guardian did the same thing in 2014 which it sold its stake in Auto Trader. Until then Honest John had the Grunaidian's back and it it could print whatever bollocks took its fancy, it always had the motor trade to pick up the bills. But right now it has a circulation not much bigger than that of my local Parish magazine, it is a bit like that Akira Kurosawa movie where the samuri kills himself with a bamboo sword. It is dying and being messy with it.

[cromwell]

History is not there to be liked or disliked.

It is there to be learnt from.

Very true,but sadly hardly ever happens.

[johnofgwent]

History is not there to be liked or disliked.

It is there to be learnt from.

well, maybe, but as far back as I can remember (the day screaming lord sutch canvassed my vote in jim callaghan's swan song) politicians particularly, but not exclusively, those in power, seem awfull ykeen to crete national amnesia.

[patman post]

I thought balance was needed.

I'm sure there's several posters who might suggest where you could apply it...

[papasmurf]

Yes, but be fair PS, this thread was about the Guardian and you've turned it into a Mail bashing fest.

I thought balance was needed.

[Barry]

That mock up is of real front pages, and that was just on one subject. I could post many front pages on other groups being attacked by the media.

Yes, but be fair PS, this thread was about the Guardian and you've turned it into a Mail bashing fest.

[papasmurf]

A mock-up illustration from a three-year old report by a campaign group that believes "resources and decisions about how they're used lie in the hands of the many, not the few" (we've heard those words before), doesn't give me any further data...

That mock up is of real front pages, and that was just on one subject. I could post many front pages on other groups being attacked by the media.

[papasmurf]

Pop up to Lye sometime (near Stourbridge) and then let us know what you think about Romanian criminal gangs on the streets.

There are Romanian bandits all over Britain.

[patman post]

We will have to agree to disagree about that:-

https://www.globaljustice.org.uk/news/2017/aug/31/thousands-call-press-regulator-hold-inquiry-racism-uk-media

A mock-up illustration from a three-year old report by a campaign group that believes "resources and decisions about how they're used lie in the hands of the many, not the few" (we've heard those words before), doesn't give me any further data...

[Barry]

Pop up to Lye sometime (near Stourbridge) and then let us know what you think about Romanian criminal gangs on the streets.

[papasmurf]

I reckon some posts on here and other forums have content that is more likely to incite and justify violence — and provoke depression and suicide — than any of the mainstream news media...

We will have to agree to disagree about that:-

https://www.globaljustice.org.uk/news/2017/aug/31/thousands-call-press-regulator-hold-inquiry-racism-uk-media

[patman post]

Who's to judge whose reporting offends who and becomes a capital offence...?

Given the lies, smears, and propaganda and incitements to violence from some of the British press over the years that have resulted in suicides and deaths  the went past that limit decades ago.

I reckon some posts on here and other forums have content that is more likely to incite and justify violence — and provoke depression and suicide — than any of the mainstream news media...

[papasmurf]

Who's to judge whose reporting offends who and becomes a capital offence...?

Given the lies, smears, and propaganda and incitements to violence from some of the British press over the years that have resulted in suicides and deaths  the went past that limit decades ago.

[patman post]

Forget links to slavery, they should be shut down for terrible reporting.  Horrible outfit - shoot the lot of them

That's been tried: In 2015, Saïd and Chérif Kouachi, forced their way into the offices of the French satirical weekly newspaper Charlie Hebdo in Paris. Armed with rifles and other weapons, they killed 12 people and injured 11 others.
Who's to judge whose reporting offends who and becomes a capital offence...?

[papasmurf]

Forget links to slavery, they should be shut down for terrible reporting.  Horrible outfit - shoot the lot of them

That applies to the Daily Heil as well.