Stupid, idiotic newspapers/media in general...

oneweb

This is getting really annoying. First it was all the raids on Post-Offices - "The thieves broke in on such a day as the childrens allowance/whatever required vast amounts of cash to be held and escaped with thousands of Euro".
Then it was the Securicor vans - "Thieves escaped with hundreds of thousands of Euro at such a time at such a place when they attacked the men on the way to the vehicle which was found abandoned" (These things are supposed to have time delays, special codes and whatnot, but the media openly advertise the fact that they're pretty much useless.)
And now it's the combination of "BE AFRAID, WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE" and "How to get the best from a Sellafield attack" - "blah blah publicly accessible documents, blah blah plane hijacking, blah blah where to hit, blah blah disastrous affect it would have" - essentailly a how-to in horrible detail. IMO, the media should not be permitted to advertise the amounts of money robbed or how to plan an attack. Fair enough, people are entitled to know what's going on, but surely the protection of the state comes into this at some stage?

Just felt I had to get that off my chest. What are other ppls opinions on this?

davelerave

well the sellafield thingy i dunno that place is really dangerous right now ,the robberies and murders the papers they paint a picture without being too specific,there were one or two lurid headlines concerning murders at the weekend which i thought were in poor taste and slightly off topic but my sister was an innocent murder victim many years ago and i remember being mad with rage reading the headlines and people discussing the death next to me in a pub but anyway
again slightly off your topic there was a big splash about neil lennon the footballer today he was questioned regarding a death and then immediately eliminated from the enquiry helped sell a good few papers though

Victor

The policy was once described as "if it bleeds, it leads". And personnally, I kno whow to get Blair, Chirac and Shroeder in one fell swoop, so the press isn't revealing all that much.

oneweb

...MATTHEW KELLY WAS ARRESTED ON CHARGES OF BLA BLA.

A while later...

Matthew Kelly was released without charge. The police had arrested him without a shred of actual evidence relating to an alleged incident in 1970.

I understand that shock news sells, but the media should at least print outcomes in the same effect as the start. Not just a "by the vye" in a little inch block.

Doubt that will ever happen tho Of course, the media is never wrong :rolleyes:

Big Chief

they do it because thats what sells papers.. nothing much more to it really, its all about the $$/££/€€

selafield thing was quite intresting i thought to

woosaysdan

its what ever sells the newspapers for them!!! thats all there worried about!!!

The Gopher

Our local paper is thw worst.I once read a story in it that mentioned"ecstasy tables"yes,tables not tablets,not once,not twice,not even thrice,not even four times,not even five times........but on SIX occasions in a short article the word tables was used instead of tablets.That must be a record.
They are also always screwing up photographs,with the names underneath belonging in another photo.And to fill up space they often enter the same photo twice or more in the same edition.

But I find nowadays that the Indo and the other broadsheets have more mistakes and poor reporting than the tabloids.

BeatTun

i work for a cash transport company (the biggest one), and i can tell you that the timelocks and codes etc are in place, and do work, every now and again sh-it hits the fan when people dont do their job properly

but on to the topic....... everytime the media advertise that a 400,000 robbery has occurred, every tom dick and harry gets a shotgun and thinks that they can get this from ANY security van, and when we tell them that we CANT open the box or that the guy on the van CANT hand them out any money becuase its in a locked safe they dont believe us, and sooner or later somebody is going to get killed.

Dun

Originally posted by BeatTun
when we tell them that we CANT open the box ..

Has this happened you?? :eek:

I always try to stay objective while reading any newspapers, but I won't touch tabloids with a barge pole. I have yet to read one that's not obviously trying to swing your opinion one way or another, never mind the fact that all these "Irish" editions keep mentioning our prime minister, Tony Blair, and our Queen, Elizabeth II, or our government in Westminster :rolleyes: (I'm in the republic, not the six counties, btw.)

PiE

Yea, you gotta love those English tabloids that tack on an "Irish!" on the front, have a page or two about Irish football/GAA while the rest of the paper is obviously just the English version, repackaged. Great fun.

Heathen

Originally posted by oneweb
...MATTHEW KELLY WAS ARRESTED ON CHARGES OF BLA BLA.

A while later...

Matthew Kelly was released without charge. The police had arrested him without a shred of actual evidence relating to an alleged incident in 1970.

I understand that shock news sells, but the media should at least print outcomes in the same effect as the start. Not just a "by the vye" in a little inch block.

Doubt that will ever happen tho Of course, the media is never wrong :rolleyes:

i know excactly what your saying, you read a headline totaly pinning something on a person, then a week or two later its stuffed down the bottom of like page 37 or something in tiny print that the person was cleared of all charges p!sses me off


Later
Macker

BeatTun

Originally posted by dun_do_bheal
Has this happened you?? :eek:

no thank god, worst ever happened me was an ATTEMPTED hijack of a van, but i know plenty of te lads who have been robbed, assaulted and even shot