It is insipid that free speech is being used to undermine our society by liars and traitors.
2006-12-16 15:05:33 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in News & Events ➔ Current Events
To give a "violent"????? Example of what ticks me off. Why don't they investigate criminal activities or paedophile rings instead of FOOTBALL managers who are just doing their jobs to the best of their abilities. But I'm obviously too uneducated (with my degree in psychology) to know what I am talking about. Maybe I should sod-off to a country where genuine free-speech is supressed. Oh! hang-on I'm already here!
2006-12-19 04:24:52 · update #1
I don't want to see a supression of free speech. I just want those who mis-use it to screw others to understand that, with rights come responsibilites. If a "journo", knowingly, writes a pack of lies he should go to prison, rather than his paper paying a fine. This would be known as accountablity.
2006-12-19 04:31:58 · update #2
Here's an idea steptoe: if you think they suck so badly, why don't you start your own news outlet? That way, your ideas could compete with other ideas based on merit.
Oh, wait - I forgot - you violent types don't like to think that much. And besides, with your level of communication skill, no one would read your paper anyway.
While you haven't said what you dislike about the press, I'm guessing that their opinions are unpopular with you.
But the thing about free press is that in order for it to be free, you can't bar speech just because it is unpopular or because you dislike it.
Or are you against freedom of speech in some way? If so, why don't you move to some nice place where they don't have free speech, maybe Iran or North Korea. You'd fit in nicely there
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You don't think obliterating someone is violent? If someone obliterated you, how would you like that?
Educated? Maybe you attended classes. But when you paint an entire class of thinkers, communicators and business people with the same brush, you reveal that you gained little by your class attendance.
Oh, and by the way, unless you are the King, not everyone who disagrees with you is a traitor.
People as intolerant as you need to live with like minded people, just like they are in North Korea and Iran, where the freee press has been obliterated.
2006-12-16 17:12:56 · answer #1 · answered by Tom D 4 · 0⤊ 3⤋
I never read these ghastly publications.
I find as a result that I have no idea what colleagues and neighbours are talking about half the time!
I am in principle opposed to censorship, but these gits just make stuff up and print it - that can't be right.
On the other hand, if we start censoring the sh*t, we might end up with the government censoring the quality press too, and that would be a disaster for democracy.
I think we just have to put up with it.
On the bright side, I asked a tradesman who was working in my house why he read the Sun. He just laughed and said it was for the same reason he read the Beano when he was a kid - they're both comics.
So maybe (hopefully!) at least some redtop readers aren't as stupid as they may appear.
2006-12-16 23:23:10 · answer #2 · answered by mcfifi 6 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Yes, I think something should be done too about a lot of what is in tabloid newspapers. I'm not against free speech, saying someone is anti-free speech is a catch-all criticism against those in favour of decency and honesty in the media. And, personally, I feel that free speech is a responsibility as much as a right, yet many in the media and elsewhere think of it as just a right. And free speech doesn't entitle people to lie, no matter what you call them, lies are lies. However, I think most people know to take the media with a pinch (carton?) of salt.
2006-12-21 17:02:19 · answer #3 · answered by scattycat 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It depends what you call the "scum press". If you mean those that survive on a diet of football, celebrity gossip and thinly-veiled racism, I'd be happy to see them obliterated (by people waking up and just not bothering to buy them any more).
If you mean free, campaigning news journalism, then absolutely not. I'm sure Nixon's supporters characterised Woodward and Bernstein as "liars and traitors".
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Psychology degree? Snap!
I don't see anything wrong with them investigating football managers who, as well as stealing from the already ripped-off football fan are also cheating the tax man (ie all of us taxpayers) by taking undeclared bribes. I agree that they should, at the same time, pursue criminals, conmen, dodgy politicians, crooked arms dealers and all other low-lifes.
2006-12-18 11:21:32 · answer #4 · answered by gvih2g2 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
i've stopped reading newspapers 3 months ago and alas no they haven't got to me whatsoever. in fact, i have lost interest and it has also put me off from becoming a journalist for life. besides, why the hell would i like the idea of being attacked, slagged off and hated by other people particuarly the public? these days, there is nothing but sheer crap in the news. not least in the tacky tabloids and right-wing press, eg the daily mail and the sun
2006-12-17 08:36:45 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
What pi**es me off is that my hard earned taxes have been used to turn you into a idiot, anybody who goes for a pseudo degree like yours has got to be. What f*c*i*g use are you to society.
Anyway reporters, editors and the whole news media circus is not there to tell the truth or inform the public. They are just there to make a profit and pay their shareholders. After all that time wasted getting your degree and you still believe what you read in the papers. My case rest.
2006-12-19 19:01:30 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
The media totally sucks they spin it any way they can so people watch but do we blame media OR society because it seems like that's what 95% of the people want to hear like the war, let's hear 15 hours a day of neg. and 3 min. of the good stuff. Media today should be shot!
2006-12-17 02:33:25 · answer #7 · answered by josh m 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
They are also called gutter press for a reason, that is where their minds are and that is where they belong.
The scary thing is we (the public in general but not me) keep buying the stuff, so they keep selling it.
Supply and demand.
As a public we could take away the demand and maybe solve the problem. I have not bought a newspaper for maybe 20 years.
2006-12-16 23:27:48 · answer #8 · answered by suzy c 5 · 5⤊ 0⤋
The excrementitious press hides behind "free speech" to slander a nation , while the "news" is literally invented more often than not . " Scum " ? You're too kind . I'm not the only one I know who goes into a self imposed news black-out quite frequently .
2006-12-17 00:02:55 · answer #9 · answered by missmayzie 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Years ago the news was brought by one person, lasted 15 minutes, and people were informed. Today it takes ten people twice as long to "spin" the news. It's repugnant and a travesty the way people are manipulated today.
2006-12-16 23:25:26 · answer #10 · answered by Mr.Wise 6 · 4⤊ 0⤋