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[Breakage]

The gutter press run the show in this country.

 

[itsbenoclock]

Love how papers are still touting this as an election for May rather than the Conservatives; only serves to weaken the Tory vote after her election performance.

 

[sammex]

It's all so predictable. Must try harder 6/10.

 

[Ravensmash]

The Sadiq Kahn video he has been pedalling lately is one of the most dangerous things I've ever seen. Zac Goldsmith's attacks were iffy, but this is something else. It appears to tie him directly to 9/11 and ISIS. Kahn did have a history as a human rights lawyer that meant he has represented people that have said shitty things or later went on to preach awful things, but to propagandise against him and make a sitting politician guilty by association, in this kind of climate - is very very dangerous. Tommy is the kind of person who would love to drive us down the path of Fox News-like Glenn Beck media hysterics.

I said it earlier.

In the eyes of some people, Khan can do no right.

He's pro LGBT, he's pro public safety, he's pro London nightlife, he's pro environment...

And yet he's still treated by some as if he's a radical.

Why?

I'd say that's pretty obvious and I'd only hope that one day people wake up and realise the utter shit that's being peddled.

 

[Ac30]

Maybe they both came with a free hard drink?

I had a BA flight before that and already got myself plenty drunk on gin and wine. Probably the best part of my BA experience!

I'd have asked for a sack of shit instead.

I can't believe we're likely about to elect a prime minister that 2 days before an election has stated openly that she will quite happily strip away human rights in this country.

Does England have any half-decent newspapers besides The Guardian? I'm not accustomed to living in London yet heh

 

[Dorsal Axe]

The Express doubling down on the Tories. Don't let Junker and his cronies ruin this country!!

The Express is 10p now? Well at least that means it must be dying on its arse.

 

[Pandy]

When are we gonna get some damn rules in place to stop these piece of shit news outlets printing straight up lies and passing them off as fact?

Spoiler

I know the answer is never but our media is one of the things that shames and angers me the most about this country

I mean, if the Tories lose, there's always a chance.

If they win, it's in their manifesto to leave the papers alone and start restricting internet platforms. I'm sure that'll help provide the balance we need.

 

[excowboy]

Good read on

Spoiler

the disgusting right wing MSM

BBC website analysing party leaders campaign stops.

TLR; May hitting Leave voting Labour seats with big UKIP vote last time out, Corbyn hitting safe seats to make good presentation to the press in-between marginal targets.

Edit: spoiler tag jokes inside links don't really work...

 

[*Splinter]

All that sun story amounts to is that Corbyn (quite rightly) is pro-palestine, and that Choudary was at an event that he happened to be giving a speech at. What a pile of shit.

I bet Meadows doesn't pop in to say that the watchdog needs to look into this shite.

Does he need to? It's been said several times already.

(Plus he already did)

 

[Pandy]

The Express is 10p now? Well at least that means it must be dying on its arse.

Hahaha! You might want to try reading that a bit more closely.

No shame in it. That's exactly what they want you to think when you're putting it in your basket at the supermarket.

 

[Meadows]

I bet Meadows doesn't pop in to say that the watchdog needs to look into this shite.

I mean, I did if you look 20 posts earlier in this thread. Try not to be a bellend.

Didn't realise I was the fucking press watchdog.

 

[Feorax]

Does England have any half-decent newspapers besides The Guardian? I'm not accustomed to living in London yet heh

Honestly? Not really. I can't really think of any where I'd be confident to take at face value the words written on the page. If anything, this election has hardened this view for me.

Tories campaign has been nothing short of a disaster. If/when May is elected PM, it will be entirely down to the media. I honestly think even I could fairly comfortably elected PM if I was parachuted into the Tory leadership position tomorrow with this kind of media backing.

 

[Ac30]

Hahaha! You might want to try reading that a bit more closely.

No shame in it. That's exactly what they want you to think when you're putting it in your basket at the supermarket.

Amazingly, that got me too. Hats off to you, Express.

 

[QuicheFontaine]

Meadows your silence on this is deafening!

 

[ferrasvansen]

Things must be close, no way those headlines are used if Tories well ahead. Reeks of desperation strangely, no Tory positivity just rampant fear mongering.

 

[sasliquid]

It's all so predictable. Must try harder 6/10.

Honestly our press is such trash, I love forward to the day of the proletariat revolution when these people will get their just desserts.

Meanwhile Corbyn is in my area tomorrow campaigning in a Con Marginal

 

[Ac30]

Honestly? Not really. I can't really think of any where I'd be confident to take at face value the words written on the page. If anything, this election has hardened this view for me.

Tories campaign has been nothing short of a disaster. If/when May is elected PM, it will be entirely down to the media. I honestly think even I could fairly comfortably elected PM if I was parachuted into the Tory leadership position tomorrow with this kind of media backing.

You'd make a better candidate than May anyways because she hasn't exactly been a star campaigner.

Looks like I'll be sticking to BBC then, even abroad they were miles better than fucking CNN.

 

[Meadows]

My job involves data visualisation and working with design teams on projects with a wide variety of clients in a number of industries.

With that said, this might be the hardest to read chart I've ever seen. Kudos BBC.

 

[HazySaiyan]

Real talk: does any country have a worse press than ours? At least in terms of free countries? It's beyond disgraceful and the amount of damage it's caused to our democracy can't be overstated.

 

[hohoXD123]

This is the corbyn speech if anyone missed it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7Z_AeLcIe8

 

[Dorsal Axe]

Hahaha! You might want to try reading that a bit more closely.

No shame in it. That's exactly what they want you to think when you're putting it in your basket at the supermarket.

Well I was thinking they must be feeling the pinch because their audience is steadily dying off. And indeed looking at that Wikipedia article someone posted earlier, their circulations have halved since 2010 (woo).

 

[ShemhazaiX]

Real talk: does any country have a worst press than ours? At least in terms of free countries? It's beyond disgraceful and the amount of damage it's caused to our democracy can't be overstated.

America. At least as far as TV goes. Our print takes the fucking piss though.

 

[King_Moc]

I mean, I did if you look 20 posts earlier in this thread. Try not to be a bellend.

Didn't realise I was the fucking press watchdog.

Well, i see you instantly jump on a random fake news anti-tory article, but the actual papers are full of this crap regarding the other side and how Corbyn is Schrodingers pacifist, simultaneously denouncing violence and promoting terror..

 

[D4Danger]

Real talk: does any country have a worse press than ours? At least in terms of free countries? It's beyond disgraceful and the amount of damage it's caused to our democracy can't be overstated.

I don't think it's even up for debate that the British press is the worst in the world.

America tries but it's more like a game show and just doesn't have that raw cruel bitterness you find here.

 

[Ogodei]

America. At least as far as TV goes. Our print takes the fucking piss though.

Even Fox isn't as bad as the Mail for the most part, due to the need to dog-whistle in the US (which is seen as Fox is losing advertisers now as they become more sensationalist).

Breitbart, Drudge, Daily Caller? That's some competition for the British right-press, but they are comfortably fringe in audience, pound for pound, compared to the Mail or the Express.

 

[HazySaiyan]

America. At least as far as TV goes. Our print takes the fucking piss though.

Sorry I meant print media specifically. The less said about Fox News et al the better

 

[Meadows]

Well, i see you instantly jump on a random fake news anti-tory article, but the actual papers are full of this crap regarding the other side and how Corbyn is Schrodingers pacifist, simultaneously denouncing violence and promoting terror..

Have a read mate

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1386183

 

[Pyramid head]

The Tory press in this country is fucking horrendous, but that suits their readers down to the ground. Fucking horrible, twisted cartoon caricatures of people. The 'rats' comment ealier in the thread was unfair to rats. They don't strive to fuck over half their species, and other species, the way tories do. They have more humanity.

 

[chemspida]

They might be winning the battles, but they've already lost the war.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_newspapers_in_the_United_Kingdom_by_circulation

Well there's some hope because these papers are singlehandedly responsible for the polarising politics in the country. Good papers like the Guardian are doing well online as well these days.

 

[HazySaiyan]

I don't think it's even up for debate that the British press is the worst in the world.

America tries but it's more like a game show and just doesn't have that raw cruel bitterness you find here.

I mean it's unbelievable the amount of shit you see from them, that Mail front page is borderline libelous.

 

[*Splinter]

Well, i see you instantly jump on a random fake news anti-tory article, but the actual papers are full of this crap regarding the other side and how Corbyn is Schrodingers pacifist, simultaneously denouncing violence and promoting terror..

Noone else criticised the Facebook thing. Several people criticised the Sun thing.

Yeah the Sun thing is obviously worse but as Meadows pointed out he's not the media watchdog, let's not bully out one of the few non-Labour voices in the thread eh?

 

[D4Danger]

I mean it's unbelievable the amount of shit you see from them, that Mail front page is borderline libelous.

they very proudly and openly call judges "Enemies of the people" in a not so subtle nod to Nazi propaganda. This is nothing.

 

[itsbenoclock]

My job involves data visualisation and working with design teams on projects with a wide variety of clients in a number of industries.

With that said, this might be the hardest to read chart I've ever seen. Kudos BBC.

 

[OverBlood 3]

The press sure are rattled aren't they.

Girl you wanna see my implied frontier...

 

[H1PSTER]

A video has been leaked of May talking to her party after telling the press she'd abolish human rights.

 

[ferrasvansen]

The press sure are rattled aren't they.

Yeah rather strange, I thought if things were very close we might see headlines like this and I may have to reconsider my predictions.

 

[daviyoung]

The press sure are rattled aren't they.

of course, first thing Labour are going to do is dust off the Leveson report

 

[HazySaiyan]

they very proudly and openly call judges "Enemies of the people" in a not so subtle nod to Nazi propaganda. This is nothing.

But one of them is a gay fencer!

I still can't believe they printed that, I mean fucking hell...

 

[OverBlood 3]

of course, first thing Labour are going to do is dust off the Leveson report

Now you're talking.

 

[Auraela]

So may is now using terrorism to push abolishing human rights

 

[Macho Madness]

Real talk: does any country have a worse press than ours? At least in terms of free countries? It's beyond disgraceful and the amount of damage it's caused to our democracy can't be overstated.

We have crap just like that Daily Mail cover but it's usually relegated to the National Enquirer which everyone knows is completely garbage

 

[Meadows]

Noone else criticised the Facebook thing. Several people criticised the Sun thing.

Yeah the Sun thing is obviously worse but as Meadows pointed out he's not the media watchdog, let's not bully out one of the few non-Labour voices in the thread eh?

 

[itsbenoclock]

Yaaas

 

[Feorax]

We have crap just like that Daily Mail cover but it's usually relegated to the National Enquirer which everyone knows is completely garbage

Everyone knows the Daily Mail is garbage too, but it doesn't stop people using it's content to fit their own horrific views.

 

[Dabanton]

Some of the most disgusting front pages I've seen for a UK election. That all three of the rags are going for this tells you a lot.

The right wing press have hit the defcon 1 panic button. They must be absolutely bricking it. Think how assured they were just two weeks ago up to now.

 

[ferrasvansen]

Yaaas

Yeah my 10 year old nephew pointed that one out, in between rolling around on the floor in laughter.

 

[Coriolanus]

No need for snark. Older people are more likely to be patient than younger ones, nothing new about that.

ehh, sorta. They perceive time differently, so it isn't exactly a fair comparison and allathat.

Yaaas

choochoo.tiff

i was hoping that something like that would happen.

 

[Pandy]

You'd make a better candidate than May anyways because she hasn't exactly been a star campaigner.

Looks like I'll be sticking to BBC then, even abroad they were miles better than fucking CNN.

If I were you I would watch the BBC news with a healthy dose of cynicism too. There have been umpteen examples of bias over the course of this thread, and I'm sure there will be a few more examples before this is all done with.

 

[OverBlood 3]

It's amazing what kind of campaign you can have without getting into bed with these trash papers it's refreshing to say the least.

 

[Huw_Dawson]

Hey, your party leader is getting exactly what Clegg got in 2010:

Most likely the Conservatives dropped a dossier with their friendly press and they're now picking through it - same tactic as 2010.