tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4433144336299288135.post8990823521562787144..comments2024-03-26T13:27:26.499+00:00Comments on Zelo Street: Kate Hoey Sells The Press PassTim Fentonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00726447899972084146noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4433144336299288135.post-1659545560168655792017-01-02T19:19:25.068+00:002017-01-02T19:19:25.068+00:00Exactly. The fact that satirical publications are ...Exactly. The fact that satirical publications are ten times more adept at journalism than the mainstream press, both here and in America, says something rather disgraceful about the state of the press in the West. <br /><br />We often like to pretend that our press is better than those in countries like China and Russia, when they only barely are.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4433144336299288135.post-702857751464156212017-01-02T19:16:41.661+00:002017-01-02T19:16:41.661+00:00The right wing press can't help themselves, th...The right wing press can't help themselves, they can't help smearing everyone and everything not like them. Cowards the lot of them.<br /><br />Unfortunately, it doesn't help when Alan tries to convince that Assange is better than them- he is just as pure evil as the rest of them and at least Murdoch has the guts to have token appearances to argue his misguided and pitiful case.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4433144336299288135.post-59284825179349933732017-01-01T21:00:22.196+00:002017-01-01T21:00:22.196+00:00Hoey has blown all credibility when she allied her...Hoey has blown all credibility when she allied herself with Farage.<br /><br />Supporting leave is one thing. Being linked with the far right racists and xenophobes of ukip is quite another.<br /><br />And now she is kissing the hand of Murdoch. It does make you wonder why she is in the Labour Party.<br />iMatthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13175500314940241302noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4433144336299288135.post-7950841409192159722017-01-01T20:20:35.715+00:002017-01-01T20:20:35.715+00:00The Murdoch press might be squealing like stuck pi...The Murdoch press might be squealing like stuck pigs over Leveson, but the sad reality is that they're not the ones that'll be put out of business when its press regulations are implemented.<br /><br />That honour will go to the small publications such as Private Eye and any number of socialist and independent local news sources. So let's have full press regulation and say goodbye to the last vestiges of a free press in the UK.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4433144336299288135.post-65012694182583768072017-01-01T18:19:11.132+00:002017-01-01T18:19:11.132+00:00The increasing desperation here mirrors the Israel...The increasing desperation here mirrors the Israeli stance over BDS. They both know the game is up, but are unwilling to accept the inevitable. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02926583633248652621noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4433144336299288135.post-2564520083290059032017-01-01T16:02:53.682+00:002017-01-01T16:02:53.682+00:00It seems the Sun's editor now realises that hi...It seems the Sun's editor now realises that his paper is neither believed nor taken seriously by its readers as the recent YouGov opinion poll showed. That's why he has recruited Hoey in the hope she will be listened to. The Mail has done the same thing with Blunkett. Problem is, the readers won't be fooled. If Hoey and Blanket have been paid, the money was wasted.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4433144336299288135.post-57363404861770178242017-01-01T15:36:04.704+00:002017-01-01T15:36:04.704+00:00I could tolerate Hoey as 'alternative' or ...I could tolerate Hoey as 'alternative' or 'independently-minded' a la Frank Field. I even accepted her going against the party line over fox-hunting. But this. THIS. She put her name to THIS. I could vomit.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4433144336299288135.post-19176860472816187642017-01-01T12:20:32.621+00:002017-01-01T12:20:32.621+00:00There are so many of similar stories and opinion p...There are so many of similar stories and opinion pieces in the Murdoch Press it is becoming quite obvious that someone is writing them all, calling a few people and offering them a bung to have their name associated with it.<br /><br />What a sad shower of individuals to be dictated to in such a manner for a wedge to top up the salary.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4433144336299288135.post-38458733502119760872017-01-01T11:49:55.817+00:002017-01-01T11:49:55.817+00:00It is a good job newspapers have editors to do fac...It is a good job newspapers have editors to do fact checking before publication......<br /><br /><br />Another huge point for Leveson to cover.<br /><br />Maybe some media editors trust politicians ramblings and they bypass the editing part.<br /><br />Look out for coded messages.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4433144336299288135.post-25488729988701185842017-01-01T11:31:54.893+00:002017-01-01T11:31:54.893+00:00Yet another Murdoch brown-nosing New Labour apolog...Yet another Murdoch brown-nosing New Labour apologist flushed out by her own reactionary behaviour.<br /><br />You would think Blair's disgusting whining self-pitying performance post-Chilcot would have taught them to keep their Quisling heads down. But they simply can't help themselves. Mugs never can.<br /><br />Hoey is merely one more example of the type.<br /><br />"Free press" my arse. Tenth rate card carrying gutless gobshites more like. For another example, see the exposure of <i>the Guardian</i> right wing propaganda against Julian Assange, a man with more journalistic courage in his little finger than the entire British mainstream media cowards. And Hoey and her political ilk.Alan Cliffordnoreply@blogger.com