Abuse
If anyone doubted the depths some cowardly journalists will go to get down in the dirt of political reporting the SUN newspaper last week took us to new levels of wickedness. By exploiting a grieving mother of her fallen soldier son to launch a vitriolic personal attack on the Prime Minister who had handwritten a letter of sympathy to the grieving mother, they stepped over a line that was condemned by most decent minded people. The Prime Minister was visibly shaken by the reporting, not about his handwriting or questions about spelling but that anyone would infer impropriety of him for sharing the grief of a lost child, when he like millions of others knows the enormity of losing a child. It left a bad taste in the mouths of many other journalists who through their own newspapers responded by expressing their readers’ disgust.
By-election
Drubbing, gubbing, done-in, was but a few of the descriptive words used following Labour’s landslide victory in Glasgow North East by-election last Thursday, and that was the SNP’s descriptions not mine. The whinging and rowing amongst the SNP ranks was immediate. But what really took the biscuit was Salmond complaining to the BBC prior to the by-election that they were giving too much air time to the BNP. He said he regretted “the irresponsibility of the BBC for generating the ridiculously and wholly unwarranted volume of publicity to a far-right party”.
Who said, “They only sing when they’re winning”?
Abuse // By-Election
Abuse
If anyone doubted the depths some cowardly journalists will go to get down in the dirt of political reporting the SUN newspaper last week took us to new levels of wickedness. By exploiting a grieving mother of her fallen soldier son to launch a vitriolic personal attack on the Prime Minister who had handwritten a letter of sympathy to the grieving mother, they stepped over a line that was condemned by most decent minded people. The Prime Minister was visibly shaken by the reporting, not about his handwriting or questions about spelling but that anyone would infer impropriety of him for sharing the grief of a lost child, when he like millions of others knows the enormity of losing a child. It left a bad taste in the mouths of many other journalists who through their own newspapers responded by expressing their readers’ disgust.
By-election
Drubbing, gubbing, done-in, was but a few of the descriptive words used following Labour’s landslide victory in Glasgow North East by-election last Thursday, and that was the SNP’s descriptions not mine. The whinging and rowing amongst the SNP ranks was immediate. But what really took the biscuit was Salmond complaining to the BBC prior to the by-election that they were giving too much air time to the BNP. He said he regretted “the irresponsibility of the BBC for generating the ridiculously and wholly unwarranted volume of publicity to a far-right party”.
Who said, “They only sing when they’re winning”?