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The Daily Mail tries to pin the gales yesterday on Al Queda and Bin Laden, offering it as another excuse to "go in" to Iraq?

(starts stopwatch and waits for Belldandy)

unknown kernel wrote:
My predicted headlines this week:
Saddam gives firefighters the A-Bomb: hose laughing now?
20% of asylum seekers called Osama; 80% likely to vote Labour; 90%
want to take our jobs; 10% want to take our women; 100% may introduce
worrying cultural diversity and work ethic
>
> et-bleedin-cetera

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Funniest post this week for me.

Mystique wrote:
> I thought you said you were only going to reply the once?

Reply to Goatboy I meant :) He's just hoping I launched into another 101 reasons to whack his bestest buddy Saddam. Besides I can't resist laughing where Mojojojo said "TV news is usually almost always fact, not opinion, and gives all sides of the argument" lol

First thing you should have done in any media or sociology course, in fact in any course where facts can be interpreted differenntly, is that everything is biased in some ways. He's even biased because he thinks the news offers mainly facts and not opinion.

The news always has a certain slant on it - reporters are not lying, they're showing a certain viewpoint.

~~Belldandy~~

If I read the Daily Mail after I'd had a shower I'd have to get straight back in again to remove all the rabid right-wingery it comes out with. My predicted headlines this week:

Saddam gives firefighters the A-Bomb: hose laughing now?

20% of asylum seekers called Osama; 80% likely to vote Labour; 90% want to take our jobs; 10% want to take our women; 100% may introduce worrying cultural diversity and work ethic

et-bleedin-cetera

Mystique wrote:
> I thought you said you were only going to reply the once?

Yea. Heh..

I can't stand the Daily Mail. My parents get it, and I read it most mornings after I get out of the shower. It's almost 100% opinion, not news.

After doing sociology for two years, I saw just how biased newspapers are, and I don't trust anything I read in them anymore. TV news is usually almost always fact, not opinion, and gives all sides of the argument

I thought you said you were only going to reply the once?

unknown kernel wrote:
> Obviously I feel much safer now; but when will journalists learn that
> the flu vaccination programme is NOT an interesting news item?

Depends if you have the flu !

~~Belldandy~~

Tóm wrote:
> The gales blew a tree over next door, basically smashing their pond,

How do you smash a pond?

I was in Herefordshire last week and saw a local newspaper with the headline 'Local Scientists Battle Saddam's Deadly Plague Bombs'. Obviously I feel much safer now; but when will journalists learn that the flu vaccination programme is NOT an interesting news item?

Goatboy wrote:
> (starts stopwatch and waits for Belldandy)

Hope your stopwatch runs a long time 'cause this is the only reply you're getting...

~~Belldandy~~