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Today in Media we were analysing newspapers, tabloids and broadsheets, to see the contrast, blah blah blah.
Anyway we were reading through todays front cover and second page of The Sun and suddenly I was suffocated with anger. First of all the front page of the national newspaper, supposedly reserved for breaking news, was the story that Victoria Beckham had her hair cut. WOAH, CANCEL MY 2 O'CLOCK, I BETTER READ THIS. I don't give a damn so much it hurts!
Anyway the second page is the Sun's attempt at squashing world politics into an A4 size square so they can give a three-page spread to Victoria Beckham's barnet. There was a story about a new strain of the TB virus that was rife in Rumania, Estonia and other countries who will be joining the EU in may.
The Sun talked about these disease-ridden people 'flocking' (Excuse me but isn't that a term for livestock, not people? You racist idiots) to England to claim benefits, steal our women, jobs and leech off the NHS costing the taxpayers billions of cash that perhaps they would otherwise squander buying more daily publications containing celebrity gossip and indoctrinating filth.
The racist message obviously wasn't predominant and it was written in a reportive style but basically gave the message "foreigners come to our country", "They are ill so will claim on the NHS", "We pay for the NHS through taxes" - shock-horror the stupid fickle readers put two and two together and dislike immigrants because "The Sun says it will make us poorer and that".
This sort of racist propaganda would be better suited to 1938 Germany to spread the word of the foreign enemy. It is just a matter of time before tabloids are asking us to invade Poland.
I am sickened.
Anyway we were reading through todays front cover and second page of The Sun and suddenly I was suffocated with anger. First of all the front page of the national newspaper, supposedly reserved for breaking news, was the story that Victoria Beckham had her hair cut. WOAH, CANCEL MY 2 O'CLOCK, I BETTER READ THIS. I don't give a damn so much it hurts!
Anyway the second page is the Sun's attempt at squashing world politics into an A4 size square so they can give a three-page spread to Victoria Beckham's barnet. There was a story about a new strain of the TB virus that was rife in Rumania, Estonia and other countries who will be joining the EU in may.
The Sun talked about these disease-ridden people 'flocking' (Excuse me but isn't that a term for livestock, not people? You racist idiots) to England to claim benefits, steal our women, jobs and leech off the NHS costing the taxpayers billions of cash that perhaps they would otherwise squander buying more daily publications containing celebrity gossip and indoctrinating filth.
The racist message obviously wasn't predominant and it was written in a reportive style but basically gave the message "foreigners come to our country", "They are ill so will claim on the NHS", "We pay for the NHS through taxes" - shock-horror the stupid fickle readers put two and two together and dislike immigrants because "The Sun says it will make us poorer and that".
This sort of racist propaganda would be better suited to 1938 Germany to spread the word of the foreign enemy. It is just a matter of time before tabloids are asking us to invade Poland.
I am sickened.
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*clubs floor and forages*
Belldandy wrote:
> Cyclone wrote:
> White man good, animals are alright, foreigners (especially Blackies
> or Arabs) are scum.
>
> Wahey...
>
> Another case in point...
>
> Don't let actual evidence stop you lads....
Ug?
> Cyclone wrote:
> White man good, animals are alright, foreigners (especially Blackies
> or Arabs) are scum.
>
> Wahey...
>
> Another case in point...
>
> Don't let actual evidence stop you lads....
Ug?
Belldandy wrote:
> You're the typical media studies student, you do a few hours a week
> and presume to be able to decode the world's media and that you are
> the holder of some truth no one else sees? Well I'll tell you now
> that I'd bet a good 80% of regular posters on this Life forum ,
> regardless of their age, could make more valid assumptions and
> conclusions about the Sun, without having a single media class.
Belldandy wrote:
> The fact you can so vocally claim to know what the people who read
> the Sun are speaks volumes. Kind of suggests you live in a cocoon
> or something...
First you make a generalisation about all Media Studies students with no evidence to back up your claim, then later moan that someone else has made a generalisation about people who read The Sun... well done... Belldandy, maybe you should stop being so confrontational whenever anyone expresses a view that doesn't agree with your own.
> You're the typical media studies student, you do a few hours a week
> and presume to be able to decode the world's media and that you are
> the holder of some truth no one else sees? Well I'll tell you now
> that I'd bet a good 80% of regular posters on this Life forum ,
> regardless of their age, could make more valid assumptions and
> conclusions about the Sun, without having a single media class.
Belldandy wrote:
> The fact you can so vocally claim to know what the people who read
> the Sun are speaks volumes. Kind of suggests you live in a cocoon
> or something...
First you make a generalisation about all Media Studies students with no evidence to back up your claim, then later moan that someone else has made a generalisation about people who read The Sun... well done... Belldandy, maybe you should stop being so confrontational whenever anyone expresses a view that doesn't agree with your own.
Bah, You do interesting stuff in Media, we're doing bloody "Childrens TV".
*spits*
*spits*
Belldandy wrote:
> Yeah I'm bitter, I chose to do something semi-challenging at A Level
> instead - Eng Lit, Geography and Maths.
I'm doing English Language, History and Computing, which aren't exactly doss subjects now.
Bell, I was joking - loosen up once in a while bud.
> Yeah I'm bitter, I chose to do something semi-challenging at A Level
> instead - Eng Lit, Geography and Maths.
I'm doing English Language, History and Computing, which aren't exactly doss subjects now.
Bell, I was joking - loosen up once in a while bud.
The broadsheets are just as bad as the tabloids when it comes to their rants. They just use bigger words and say more because they don't have *Go to france for a quid* taking up 3/4's of the page.
Yeah I'm bitter, I chose to do something semi-challenging at A Level instead - Eng Lit, Geography and Maths.
Bitter I tell you.
Paradox: wrote:
> I didnt deny I was accusing them of being racist. I feel they WERE
> being racist, absolutely. They were trying however to disguise the
> fact. They didnt print "We dont like foreign people" but it
> is the message you get from reading it, it's subliminal not
> extravert.
So, in other words, it actually isn't racist but that's how you interpreted it, saying a message is subliminal, in this context, is usually a back up for "damn it I'm right but I have no evidence so all just shut it okay?"....
The fact you can so vocally claim to know what the people who read the Sun are speaks volumes. Kind of suggests you live in a cocoon or something...
> I didnt deny I was accusing them of being racist. I feel they WERE
> being racist, absolutely. They were trying however to disguise the
> fact. They didnt print "We dont like foreign people" but it
> is the message you get from reading it, it's subliminal not
> extravert.
So, in other words, it actually isn't racist but that's how you interpreted it, saying a message is subliminal, in this context, is usually a back up for "damn it I'm right but I have no evidence so all just shut it okay?"....
The fact you can so vocally claim to know what the people who read the Sun are speaks volumes. Kind of suggests you live in a cocoon or something...
Bell is just bitter because he doesn't do media studies :-P
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