Scum-watch: IS THIS JFK'S SECRET SON?*
*We don't know, but we'll print any old crap!Meanwhile, the Sun is now seemingly hassling anyone who decides to get a job after being convicted for possessing child pornography. A question: could this possibly be a completely invented quote? You decide!
A source said last night: “Luckman says he’s mended his ways but he’s dealing with all manner of people, including children.
“I wonder how many customers would be happy if they knew who their kids were being served by?”
Previously they wouldn't have been any the wiser and therefore not in the slightest bit worried. Now no doubt even if he is eventually reinstated the customers will demand that he gets the sack.
Lastly, if you thought yesterday's leader on the Guantanamo six was pitiful, this plumbs new depths:
We are in the grip of a knife and gun epidemic. Feral teenagers are putting the fear of God into us all.
Are we in the grip of a knife and gun epidemic? We're certainly more aware of the former, and it seems to have increased, but no on the latter. Knives have definitely been used in more murders of late, and there's let's say been disagreements on how often knives are used in crime in general. Gun crime however has been shown to have roughly stabilised. Are we really scared of feral teenagers? Can't say I am. I'm slightly anxious about walking around in the dark; unless you're supremely self-confident my guess is that most people are. Such statements however do put the fear of God into people, make them fear the young more and make them more anxious about groups of them hanging around when they're probably not hurting anyone whatsoever. Self-fulfilling prophecies are a tabloid dream.
What then is the main problem?
Former top cop O’Connor and superhead Newton know what the problem is: we praise celebrities who binge on drink and drugs.
Ah yes, that's exactly it! This is of course the handed-down on high opinion of the same newspaper that ran this on its front page last week:
IT’S chest what we all wanted to see – AMY WINEHOUSE looking almost back to her best.
The star’s boobs were on full show for her meeting with the Embassy suits . . . well, I suppose it can’t do any harm.
The busty star has clearly had a crack at eating in the clinic – and looks much better for it.
Of course, the previous day it had printed photographs of Winehouse "looking thin, pale and unsteady" but who cares or noticed?
Anyway, where do you even start to begin? Apart from the Mail, the Scum is the biggest selling newspaper which prints the most garbage on celebrities and whatever it is they're getting up to. It thinks that Britney Spears's problems are a tremendous soap opera to played out on the inside pages. It's the same newspaper that idolised Wayne Rooney a couple of years back, serialising his piss-poor autobiography and his story in general when he moved to Manchester United. He also happens to be one of the most high profile footballers to routinely throw foul abuse at referees, one of the paper's other peeves. That it threw far more bile the way of Steve McClaren and Sven when they variously failed in the manager's job than most players will ever subject refs to is also completely forgotten.
And now we have athletics drugs cheat Dwain Chambers running in Great Britain colours again.
Our youngsters need good role models to idolise — it’s time for real stars to stand up and be counted.
Which is another great case of continuing to persecute someone after they've served the punishment. If he's now clean, what on earth does it matter? In short, if you're looking for an example of a role model completely free from hypocrisy, make certain that you aim to become a Sun journalist.
Labels: crime, feral kids will kill us all, hypocrisy, Scum-watch, Sun-watch, tabloid hypocrisy
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The Sun amuses me.
Bring back the death penalty and kill all murderers!
Persecute those who have served their time!
Zero tolerance on everything!
Hillsborough? Er yeah, we should be forgiven for that.
Of course they have different staff now, but it's the same principal since via reform, rehab and just good old fashioned jail, people can change their behaviour too.
Posted by
Chris |
Thursday, February 14, 2008 12:33:00 PM
The Sun is just complete and utter shit. There simply aren't enough expletives to accurately convey how crap it is.
Reading it is a bit like listening to some bigoted drunk bloke sounding off in a pub, only with alliteration and bad puns.
It also really irritates me the way they're always sounding off about 'benefit scroungers' and the like. Yet Murdoch pays next to nothing in tax, making him and the Sun scroungers on a colossal scale. But does this get mentioned? Does it fuck.
Posted by
UpThePunx |
Thursday, February 14, 2008 9:55:00 PM