Press attempting to downplay serious matters by use of inverted commas

 

is a cunt.

A quick hark back to the recently-cunted media cunts’ use of quotation marks.

This particular story a bit more sinister, though.

A man is currently in custody for sticking a knife in a 17 y.o.girls neck(from behind, unprovoked) in Brierfield a few days prior to the aforementioned cunting.

Now. A copy & paste definition of stab : The word stab primarily means to pierce or wound with a sharp, pointed object like a knife.

OK. Now have the headline *verbatim* from the Lancashire Telegraph. All punctuation as they saw fit.

Brierfield – Attempted murder arrest after girl ‘stabbed’.

Two more from the same article, under their ‘read more’ a quick scroll down.

‘No evidence’ Brierfield ‘stabbing’ was racially motivated.

And this fucking doozy :

Brierfield ‘stabbing’ – man charged with attempted murder.

But unfortunately y’have to go with the Lancashire Telegraph if you want to read about it, ‘cos none of the rest of the ‘big’ cunts bothered to even cover the attack, despite the fact there is cctv OF it to be seen. No immediate responses to my search, anyhow.

n.b. I ran a definition query of inverted commas just before posting the nom… one of the listed uses is :

(quote)

“Used to indicate skepticism about a word”… i.e. downplay.

The cunts.

Lancashire Telegraph

Nominated by Cuntemall.

17 thoughts on “Press attempting to downplay serious matters by use of inverted commas

  1. I was thinking this over afterwards … Maybe theywere trying a variation on the whole ‘alleged/allegedly’ thing?

    But stupidly, if so.

    She was treated in hospital, and the attacker ended up charged with attempted murder.. so the knife attack must have occurred. (n.b. the cctv footage is clear as day!)

    Press cunts were happy enough to use stabbed AS the downplay word two weeks prior, when the cunt in Belfast gouged, sliced and carved HIS victim with the stanley knife …

  2. He certainly has “mental health issues” so can go about “stabbing” people as he is from an “ethnic minority”.

    I’ve seen the footage of the attempted murder,the cunt should hang from the lampost nearest to where it was carried out.

    Leave the verminous dung to rot for a month.

    Then family Oven.

    Good morning.

  3. I have been stabbed.. ” I don’t think you have mate”

    You mention downplaying, let’s be honest third world savages stabbing people is a regular occurrence nowadays..

  4. A typical example in the past week is the way some of the newspapers – including the Daily Mail have referred to the “murder” of Ann Widdicombe. There is no doubt about it that it WAS murder, so why not just say so.

  5. He was banged up on remand for the previous assault and robbery.

    This is unusual, so either he was seen to be a flight risk, was a danger to the community or he has more previous convictions.

    So what the fuck was the judge thinking of when he was released back in March?

  6. Peaceful with a 🔪 who’d have ever thought it possible from the “peaceful” ideology…now that deserves a downplaying 👍 … yet another savage on the streets “big deal” 🤐

  7. Does this mean that after the next Muslim immigrant outrage I can say ‘blow up all mosques’ and I’ll get a lesser sentence?

  8. To be fair, I often use this tactic as a dismissive.
    ‘Sir’ Lenny Henry, for example.
    Or ‘Baroness’ Lawrence.
    Then again, I’m not claiming to be writing factual media news reports.
    Perhaps the BBC could expand on this and use it when describing people or anything else they find distasteful.
    ‘The Conservative Party’
    ‘Controlled immigration’
    ‘License fee reform’
    That kind of thing,

  9. Is there a journalist in the UK ( I probably should have put that word in quotation marks ) under the age of 45 who has even a basic grasp of grammar and punctuation?

    • I truly believe that they think inverted commas are the same as bold type, or underlining, that they’re for emphasis.

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