tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4433144336299288135.post6871005337198407768..comments2024-03-26T13:27:26.499+00:00Comments on Zelo Street: Free Speech Campaigners BUSTEDTim Fentonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00726447899972084146noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4433144336299288135.post-18060860196325364502017-01-07T21:36:26.642+00:002017-01-07T21:36:26.642+00:00"One has to wonder if there is anyone out the...<i>"One has to wonder if there is anyone out there batting for the press establishment who is not directly or indirectly on their payroll - or, like some of the less principled hangers-on, merely cheering for them in the hope that someone will throw them a biscuit."</i><br /><br />The fact is, almost everybody these days is shit scared to open their mouths about corruption in the organisation they work for. Which, in the end, makes even the "innocent" guilty. And in law silence or ignorance of the law is no defence anyway. "Journalism" is simply the most obvious.<br /><br />But we are only in the cultural foothills of decisive social change. All of it is fired up by the internet and wider expression of opinion. Only outright fascism can try to stop it. But it can only be slowed, not prevented. God knows what desperate lengths the establishment will go to preserve itself - the last century doesn't provide much encouragement they'll come to democratic terms with the inevitable.<br /><br />This pathetic and corrupt episode is only symptomatic......but ominous.<br /><br />"Journalists" meanwhile will do what they almost always do: Lie. It's what they're paid for......they're too scared and cowardly to do anything else.Alan Cliffordnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4433144336299288135.post-50225185925124525652017-01-07T21:15:48.719+00:002017-01-07T21:15:48.719+00:00An old friend of mine Tweeted a link to that bogus...An old friend of mine Tweeted a link to that bogus website and its fraudulent petition last night. I was so concerned that he had been misled by such blatant astroturfing that I e-mailed him, directing him to some of the pieces you've published re. s.40, Leveson 2 and IMPRESS.<br /><br />He e-mailed me back to tell me that, <i>"If it curbs the lies of the Scum, the Abscess, the Daily Heil and the Torygraph [...] then I'm all for Article 40, then."</i>, and deleted his earlier Tweets. Result!The Judgehttp://www.thejudge.me.uknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4433144336299288135.post-90941084859202680652017-01-07T19:38:59.735+00:002017-01-07T19:38:59.735+00:00@4
Projection, windups and false assumptions are ...@4<br /><br />Projection, windups and false assumptions are as unsuccessful here as on Twitter..<br /><br />You're welcome.<br />Tim Fentonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00726447899972084146noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4433144336299288135.post-50255055350231224652017-01-07T19:22:29.993+00:002017-01-07T19:22:29.993+00:00Tim, if we are wrong about section 40 and you are ...Tim, if we are wrong about section 40 and you are right to suggest there is no chill on free speech from bloggers being regulated then why won't you join IMPRESS?Mike Harrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13907563427217585740noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4433144336299288135.post-89667780649436098552017-01-07T18:48:20.149+00:002017-01-07T18:48:20.149+00:00@2
That was both provocative and intelligent.
If...@2<br /><br />That was both provocative and intelligent.<br /><br />If only the social media ruckus going on right now were up to the same standard.<br />Tim Fentonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00726447899972084146noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4433144336299288135.post-81698548643197231082017-01-07T18:12:45.980+00:002017-01-07T18:12:45.980+00:00Unconvincing and sensationalist piece. More facts ...Unconvincing and sensationalist piece. More facts and less opinion would be handy. Many journalists are paid for their work because they can actually write.Farahtasiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06665595475499689736noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4433144336299288135.post-54073948137101400802017-01-07T17:47:19.099+00:002017-01-07T17:47:19.099+00:00How tedious this is all becoming.
A bit disappoin...How tedious this is all becoming.<br /><br />A bit disappointing to see the i and Standard joining in the "everything but IPSO is sh*t" bandwagon. And now even my local papers are echoing all the dreary sentiments.<br /><br />Interesting piece by Bonnie Greer in the last New European, on the idea of Beliefs Versus Values. I bet very few of these apologists read that.pete cnoreply@blogger.com