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imbored  UK 16 Apr 15 10.50pm |
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The papers were quick to react to the party leaders' televised election debate," the BBC website reported. Just so. By 8pm, early copies of some front pages were being beamed over to the BBC News Channel and printed out for its paper review later that evening. The Sun reported viewers' damning "verdict" on Ed Miliband's performance under the leadline "Oops! I Just Lost My Election", while the Daily Express summarised the debate thus: "Cool Cameron on top, but Farage keeps up fight on EU and migrants." Which showed commendable clairvoyance; both these first editions came through before the live debate had even begun.
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| Hoof Hearted 17 Apr 15 10.53am | |
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Of course the Mirror and Guardian wouldn't resort to this sort of thing in the same way they claimed they weren't hacking people's phones when the NoW got caught doing it..................
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 OknotOK Cockfosters, London 17 Apr 15 11.11am |
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Of course the Mirror and Guardian wouldn't resort to this sort of thing in the same way they claimed they weren't hacking people's phones when the NoW got caught doing it.................. The OP didn't say "RIGHT WING press coverage of the election" and has just quoted the Private Eye story. What it does help to demonstrate is the ridiculous entrenched positions taken up by the newspapers that are then being communicated to the public. The debates (and the campaign as a whole) aren't really shaping the political atmosphere, they are just reinforcing it. The polls aren't moving. Telegraph readers will say Ed Miliband lost the debate last night. Guardian ones will say he won.
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| imbored UK 17 Apr 15 11.23am |
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Quote Hoof Hearted at 17 Apr 2015 10.53am
Of course the Mirror and Guardian wouldn't resort to this sort of thing in the same way they claimed they weren't hacking people's phones when the NoW got caught doing it.................. The OP didn't say "RIGHT WING press coverage of the election" and has just quoted the Private Eye story. The polls aren't moving. Telegraph readers will say Ed Miliband lost the debate last night. Guardian ones will say he won. This. I saw the Private Eye story and is was interesting and telling enough to post. I purposefully made the thread title open ended so that people could post anything of relevance. People on here always excuse misgivings of left or right based on 'the other guys are doing it'. 'The other guy's are doing it' isn't a way to solve or address anything though of course.
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| Lyons550 Shirley 17 Apr 15 11.28am |
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Quote imbored at 17 Apr 2015 11.23am
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Quote Hoof Hearted at 17 Apr 2015 10.53am
Of course the Mirror and Guardian wouldn't resort to this sort of thing in the same way they claimed they weren't hacking people's phones when the NoW got caught doing it.................. The OP didn't say "RIGHT WING press coverage of the election" and has just quoted the Private Eye story. The polls aren't moving. Telegraph readers will say Ed Miliband lost the debate last night. Guardian ones will say he won. This. I saw the Private Eye story and is was interesting and telling enough to post. I purposefully made the thread title open ended so that people could post anything of relevance. People on here always excuse misgivings of left or right based on 'the other guys are doing it'. 'The other guy's are doing it' isn't a way to solve or address anything though of course. Agreed...but for most of us voters that's what politics has been boiled down to...bickering and mudslinging no wonder kids are turned off from voting.
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| jamiemartin721 Reading 17 Apr 15 11.33am |
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Quote Hoof Hearted at 17 Apr 2015 10.53am
Of course the Mirror and Guardian wouldn't resort to this sort of thing in the same way they claimed they weren't hacking people's phones when the NoW got caught doing it.................. I don't know, did they (the mirror is a s**trag anyhow), but were they published before the debate? Hacking phones etc is generally ok if the story merits that kind of activity in actual journalism, rather than just doing it to see if you can get a story.
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| imbored UK 17 Apr 15 11.39am |
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Quote Lyons550 at 17 Apr 2015 11.28am
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Quote Hoof Hearted at 17 Apr 2015 10.53am
Of course the Mirror and Guardian wouldn't resort to this sort of thing in the same way they claimed they weren't hacking people's phones when the NoW got caught doing it.................. The OP didn't say "RIGHT WING press coverage of the election" and has just quoted the Private Eye story. The polls aren't moving. Telegraph readers will say Ed Miliband lost the debate last night. Guardian ones will say he won. This. I saw the Private Eye story and is was interesting and telling enough to post. I purposefully made the thread title open ended so that people could post anything of relevance. People on here always excuse misgivings of left or right based on 'the other guys are doing it'. 'The other guy's are doing it' isn't a way to solve or address anything though of course. Agreed...but for most of us voters that's what politics has been boiled down to...bickering and mudslinging no wonder kids are turned off from voting.
It's true. I spoke to one young relative who in part shared that view. He pointed out that most of your successes and failures in life have little to do with who's in power anyway, so there's no point getting too worked up about it. Adapting to change is vitally important, more so than throwing your toys out of the pram because everything isn't exactly how you want it. Politics in this country has solely become about pointing the finger.
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The Sash  Now residing in Epsom - How Posh 17 Apr 15 2.24pm |
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Quote imbored at 17 Apr 2015 11.39am
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Quote OknotOK at 17 Apr 2015 11.11am
Quote Hoof Hearted at 17 Apr 2015 10.53am
Of course the Mirror and Guardian wouldn't resort to this sort of thing in the same way they claimed they weren't hacking people's phones when the NoW got caught doing it.................. The OP didn't say "RIGHT WING press coverage of the election" and has just quoted the Private Eye story. The polls aren't moving. Telegraph readers will say Ed Miliband lost the debate last night. Guardian ones will say he won. This. I saw the Private Eye story and is was interesting and telling enough to post. I purposefully made the thread title open ended so that people could post anything of relevance. People on here always excuse misgivings of left or right based on 'the other guys are doing it'. 'The other guy's are doing it' isn't a way to solve or address anything though of course. Agreed...but for most of us voters that's what politics has been boiled down to...bickering and mudslinging no wonder kids are turned off from voting.
It's true. I spoke to one young relative who in part shared that view. He pointed out that most of your successes and failures in life have little to do with who's in power anyway, so there's no point getting too worked up about it. Adapting to change is vitally important, more so than throwing your toys out of the pram because everything isn't exactly how you want it. Politics in this country has solely become about pointing the finger.
Someone actually told me they were voting for 'the lesser of two evils' the other day - so its come to that, voting for an 'evil' that's slightly worse than the other.
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coulsdoneagle  London 17 Apr 15 3.22pm |
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Quote The Sash at 17 Apr 2015 2.24pm
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Quote OknotOK at 17 Apr 2015 11.11am
Quote Hoof Hearted at 17 Apr 2015 10.53am
Of course the Mirror and Guardian wouldn't resort to this sort of thing in the same way they claimed they weren't hacking people's phones when the NoW got caught doing it.................. The OP didn't say "RIGHT WING press coverage of the election" and has just quoted the Private Eye story. The polls aren't moving. Telegraph readers will say Ed Miliband lost the debate last night. Guardian ones will say he won. This. I saw the Private Eye story and is was interesting and telling enough to post. I purposefully made the thread title open ended so that people could post anything of relevance. People on here always excuse misgivings of left or right based on 'the other guys are doing it'. 'The other guy's are doing it' isn't a way to solve or address anything though of course. Agreed...but for most of us voters that's what politics has been boiled down to...bickering and mudslinging no wonder kids are turned off from voting.
It's true. I spoke to one young relative who in part shared that view. He pointed out that most of your successes and failures in life have little to do with who's in power anyway, so there's no point getting too worked up about it. Adapting to change is vitally important, more so than throwing your toys out of the pram because everything isn't exactly how you want it. Politics in this country has solely become about pointing the finger.
Someone actually told me they were voting for 'the lesser of two evils' the other day - so its come to that, voting for an 'evil' that's slightly worse than the other.
Of course im playing Devils advocate here, but you see my point, no one cares enough because politics is so far removed. I like to consider myself interested and hungry for knowledge, but the language used in politics already created a gap. I went to a state school and never really learned about politics, no one really does except those who end up being politicians. How can people possibly generate change if they have no way in to that world. I think the bullsh*t citizen classes I did when I was 16 was a waste of time, young people should be learning about what things mean for them. You get a group of people who hear the world deficit and don't even know what it means, they think debt. It's pretty much another language and leads to scaremongering and people not knowing what the problems are and just having a bunch of posh w*nkers telling them that X, Y or Z are the root cause of the problems so vote for this colour. It's all a crock of sh*t essentially, so I do get the apathy.
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| Hoof Hearted 17 Apr 15 4.28pm | |
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Quote imbored at 17 Apr 2015 11.23am
Quote OknotOK at 17 Apr 2015 11.11am
Quote Hoof Hearted at 17 Apr 2015 10.53am
Of course the Mirror and Guardian wouldn't resort to this sort of thing in the same way they claimed they weren't hacking people's phones when the NoW got caught doing it.................. The OP didn't say "RIGHT WING press coverage of the election" and has just quoted the Private Eye story. The polls aren't moving. Telegraph readers will say Ed Miliband lost the debate last night. Guardian ones will say he won. This. I saw the Private Eye story and is was interesting and telling enough to post. I purposefully made the thread title open ended so that people could post anything of relevance. People on here always excuse misgivings of left or right based on 'the other guys are doing it'. 'The other guy's are doing it' isn't a way to solve or address anything though of course.
I merely pointed out the obvious that they are all at it.
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| imbored UK 17 Apr 15 5.10pm |
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Quote Hoof Hearted at 17 Apr 2015 4.28pm
Quote imbored at 17 Apr 2015 11.23am
Quote OknotOK at 17 Apr 2015 11.11am
Quote Hoof Hearted at 17 Apr 2015 10.53am
Of course the Mirror and Guardian wouldn't resort to this sort of thing in the same way they claimed they weren't hacking people's phones when the NoW got caught doing it.................. The OP didn't say "RIGHT WING press coverage of the election" and has just quoted the Private Eye story. The polls aren't moving. Telegraph readers will say Ed Miliband lost the debate last night. Guardian ones will say he won. This. I saw the Private Eye story and is was interesting and telling enough to post. I purposefully made the thread title open ended so that people could post anything of relevance. People on here always excuse misgivings of left or right based on 'the other guys are doing it'. 'The other guy's are doing it' isn't a way to solve or address anything though of course.
I merely pointed out the obvious that they are all at it. Already taken into consideration in the thread title. Edited by imbored (17 Apr 2015 5.11pm)
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