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Just goes to show you can't trust the news
NS Dev - 29/9/09 at 02:09 PM

You probably can't fail to have noticed the latest media "anti-social behaviour" frenzy regarding Bardon Road, in Barwell.

Well those that know me know that is my road, the first road into barwell on the mallory park side.

I am so fed up with the ridiculous media coverage of this.

I see the Sun has now pictured a young lad from our road branding him many rather unpleasant things.

I for one will be dropping a note of support off to his family.

I think they have been unfairly blamed for things that just don't exist in reality. I know the lad pictured quite well, as I seem to be his and his mates' local mechanic for their push bikes. They are a friendly bunch, if loud and boistrous. They have never done ANYTHING to upset me or my neighbours, and yet I hear a couple of whining old women on my road whingeing about them constantly.

One of them is the one who kicked most of this off with the media, having been paid for her story.

I wonder if she has considered two things, 1) that if the family who killed themselves were that threatened, then why didn't she, as their nearest and aparently most caring, neighbour, do something about it and 2) what she could now have done to the life of the lad who is now pictured in the papers.................

I am furious about the whole scenario.

smart51 - 29/9/09 at 02:14 PM

You mean there isn't a gang of angry and abusive teenagers on that street every night of the week making a fuss, banging on doors and harassing people, damaging their cars and being a general nuisance?

cd.thomson - 29/9/09 at 02:17 PM

well you've never come across as anti-social to me .

I agree, the news is a crock of sh*t, my area of contention with todays papers is the death of the young girl after a vaccination - whipping up yet another MMR poostorm.

Back to the point though, in these circumstances you have to consider the response as well as the cause. If I was at the end of my tether I wouldn't kill myself and my child. The mother and possibly daughter clearly need more support, and the situation is tragic, but the media can't place blood on peoples hands

flak monkey - 29/9/09 at 02:21 PM

I know nothing of the stories so cant really comment. If there is vandalism going on and its been proven (not heresay) that it that gang of youths then everyone has the right to complain. If its not been proven then they have to be given the benefit of the doubt.

Playing devils advocate though maybe these kids show a different side to you as you help them out?

But I dont pay any attention to the news/media because they seem more interested in hyped up stories and scaremongering than actually informing the public these days.

As for old biddies complaining, there are some in every area I think.

And I agree with cd.thomson about the family who killed themselves. Obviously in need of some additional support somewhere along the lines.

ashg - 29/9/09 at 03:19 PM

i stoped watching the news and buying papers about a year ago. its all complete crap. the time is now much better spent on finishing of the car.

splitrivet - 29/9/09 at 03:32 PM

quote:
Originally posted by ashg
i stoped watching the news and buying papers about a year ago. its all complete crap. the time is now much better spent on finishing of the car.


Same here its nowt but a load of biased tosh that is a serious insult to your intelligence.
Cheers,
Bob

FFTS - 29/9/09 at 04:06 PM

Errmmmm.. yeh.

Where can I get an Avatar like that

adithorp - 29/9/09 at 04:12 PM

The newspaper business is exactly that; A business that needs to sell papers and to that end they're not going to let the truth get in the way of a good story. Even if they are found to be making it up, all they have to do is print a retraction somewhere in amongst the small ads.

Did you see the "Terrorist hit list of prominent British jews" including Sir Alan Sugar that appeared in The Sun last month. Suposedly leaked by MI5...They eventually had to admit that they'd made the story up.

martyn_16v - 29/9/09 at 08:35 PM

quote:
Originally posted by cd.thomson
I agree, the news is a crock of sh*t, my area of contention with todays papers is the death of the young girl after a vaccination - whipping up yet another MMR poostorm.


I just saw a news presenter interviewing a doctor and asking if he was worried that all the media coverage would damage vaccination take-up. I thought the doctor did particularly well not to scream 'WHY DON'T YOU SHUT UP ABOUT IT UNTIL WE KNOW THE FACTS THEN'

Anyone who reads football news should know that making things up is par for the course, particularly for newspapers. The credit crunch really hit football journo's hard, with clubs not buying anywhere near as many players as usual this year they really had to stretch their imagination to the limit to make up enough transfer rumours to fill the column inches.

[Edited on 29/9/09 by martyn_16v]

SteveWalker - 29/9/09 at 09:43 PM

quote:
Originally posted by cd.thomson
well you've never come across as anti-social to me .

I agree, the news is a crock of sh*t, my area of contention with todays papers is the death of the young girl after a vaccination - whipping up yet another MMR poostorm.


All the evidence since does seem to show that the MMR scare was a case of flawed conclusions and there was no good reason not to give kids the MMR, but we have gone the single vaccinations route (damned expensive at £135 per injection, 3 injections per child and 3 children). This is because my wife worked with two women, each of whom had a child that was developing normally, beginning to speak, etc., had the MMR, developed a fever within 24 hours, went floppy, took a week or so to recover and had regressed significantly - both these children were later diagnosed as autistic. Whether this was coincidence or not, we do not know, but it is quite worrying.

woodster - 30/9/09 at 09:10 AM

so is it not true that she felt the abuse was so bad the only way out was to kill herself and child ? .... are her complaints to the police not true ? ..... which bits of the story are made up ? have you asked this lad his side of the story ?

[Edited on 30/9/09 by woodster]

FFTS - 30/9/09 at 10:59 AM

Hmmm..

Are cars involved in this forum

woodster - 30/9/09 at 11:51 AM

this part of the forum is "anything else" which to me means anything else you would like feed back on or a discussion about ...... in the past we have had some great discussions about many subjects which have been very interesting and good natured ........ long may it continue

cd.thomson - 30/9/09 at 11:56 AM

im with you woodster buuut playing devils advocate

quote:
Anything else
Any other stuff you want to talk about on a car theme.

woodster - 30/9/09 at 12:25 PM

quote:
Originally posted by cd.thomson
im with you woodster buuut playing devils advocate

quote:
Anything else
Any other stuff you want to talk about on a car theme.


fair point well made ..........

motorcycle_mayhem - 30/9/09 at 02:35 PM

Like GM (OK, not Vauxhall), I seethed as a fellow 'scientist' fed rats nothing but GM-modified potatoes.... demonstrating absolutely that rats don't thrive on a diet of potatoes.... interpretation of the results by the 'scientist' and the media were quite incredible.