The news is no longer dependable in any real meaning. Any ‘big’ stories are presented with a biased slant, depending on the internal politics of the outlet.. On the same point, for example, one crowd will call a certain group of people taken and held against their will ‘hostages’, while another will call them ‘captives’. That’s subtle, but enough to be missed by swathes of the unthinking-for-themselves. But the point of view is still promoted. ‘Murdered by’ and ‘killed by’ another 2 different ways to describe the ending of a life(s), as a second example.
Vehicles purposely driven in to crowds(jesus what a sentence) describers (I’m loathe to call these cunts journalists)get that one wrong all the time.
And if there’s a story too big to be ‘spun’, then it will remain unreported altogether. Effnick outrages particularly (crime, antisocial creepy behaviour en masse etc.) The omission of any detail if a perpetrator is of a certain subset to a point of ridiculousness (describing the colour of a rapist-on-the-run’s sweatshirt but not if he’s black, if he is black). Describing a rapist or murderers skin colour is not racism, it’s simply a fact.
Even the fucking filler – like this link below – has a slant to it. A non-story if there ever was one, .. it’s pure ‘pro’ the absolute tool that it’s about – who should have been told to fuck off with it, when he decided to call it in and make a deal out of it for self-promotional reasons/attention-neediness. But instead someone took the time to type it up & put it out to the world like it matters. A ‘Stop Press’ situation it certainly ain’t.
There was a car-into-crowd occurrence yesterday, as I type this, eleven dead .. but the news feed all day didn’t proffer that to me once. THIS 9 month old tat came up instead just now (prompting the nom).
I didn’t cunt the bbc specifically, because this ‘reporting’ of bullshit is widespread across the board. All the time now. But this one is particularly low-bar. With pathetic posed-for pictures for good measure. Have these type of people no shame whatsoever?
C-U-N-T-S, everyone involved.
Nominated by Cuntemall.