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Local News - Why dont they SHUT THE :censored: UP
As the title says really, local news seems to be poking the fire with a massive stick of late on 2 subjects, leaving the mindless scum something to focus and copy
Why cant the press shut up, and just back off for once, I understand the freedom of speech etc etc, but why are we arming the average lemming with this type of info beggers belief.
Let me enlighten you
1. We have a spate of Feline poisioning locally, apparently a commonly used vehicle product is irrestistable to them, and once ingested causes slow painful kidney failure and death. The RSPCA have taken the harrowing steps to door to door leaflet drop warning owners, and they have had 70 deaths If I catch them they will be drinking their fair share too.
2. Also reported that idiots are throwing screws across the roads on the A2070 towards Kent from Hastings, ahhh you think, the odd screw and unlucky recipiant, nope, we are talking boxes, in one spot one day, and another the next. On the way home there was 6-8 vehicles changing tyres all in a line, and Sunday just gone was a mile up the road and roughly the same result. The news reported this too, and it seems to be getting worse.
You know why Mac because they don't give a feck for anyone or anything except the sensational story that gets them publicity. You would have thought that they would be under a duty of care not to exacerbate the situation and if it is reasonable to assume that the information they release could lead to further instances taking place they should be held responsible.
Sorry Mac I must be ill I can't even get into a good rant but I agree with you whole heartedly.
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17th Sep 2009 7:59 pm
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Good news is not newsworthy, so you end up with the bad news which is usually Not Even Worth Showing I believe that every human has a finite number of heart-beats. I don't intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises.
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17th Sep 2009 8:03 pm
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Could be worse. They could be throwing boxes of poisoned cats onto the road.In the Beginning there was nothing, which exploded.
17th Sep 2009 8:13 pm
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thats not nice SWMBO has put her moggies on House Arrest, and with the Pup from hell all in one house, and with Strictly come dancing starting tomorrow I am thinking of disappearing till the coast is clear
17th Sep 2009 8:19 pm
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I feel your pain Sir. SCD is more than anyone should be expected to bear, particularly when the crap factor is on the other side.
Anyone for fishing then?
Oh, and journalists???? Should be legal to shoot them. Nuff said
Hold on Mac, how could that beautiful little animal seen posing angelically in a recent picture from yourself suddenly become
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the Pup from hell
not having problems with the little angel are we???
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17th Sep 2009 8:43 pm
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MacLeod 313 wrote:
SWMBO has put her moggies on House Arrest
All cats should be under house arrest - instead of SHITTING in other peoples gardens
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17th Sep 2009 11:24 pm
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my money's on the cat...... one wife.......livid
17th Sep 2009 11:29 pm
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Absolute crap TBH 99% of yobs don't watch the news for a start ...anything that is set to become a fad or craze will spread through the playgrounds and gangs faster than wildfire without the help of any other medium.
I also have some faith in the majority of youth who can actually distinguish between what is right and wrong and trust that any news item will raise awareness of the issue in a positive way to that audience age group.
The news has a lot to answer for in terms of bias, bloated ego's, football star level salaries and elevated celebrity of people who should just get on with reading the fecking autocue ....but ....and it's a big but... it's not responsible for promotion of what normal humongs would understand to be fundamentally wrong.21 year LR veteran > D2 GS 2003 > D3 S 2006 > D3 HSE 2009 > D4 HSE 2013 > D4 HSE 2015 > D5 HSE 2018 > DS HSE R-Dynamic P300e 2021
18th Sep 2009 12:18 am
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Caught a bloke trying to shoot my cat with an Air pistol earlier in the year..i politely asked him to stop then politely kicked 10 bells of out of him and smashed the gun to bits with a sledge hammer.
Posted it through his letterbox and poured brake fluid all over his shiny motor a month later.
Cant stand cruelty to animals, for once Mac..i agree with you "you cannot teach stupid people to do clever things"
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DG,
That's why the media will never be taken to task, it's never their fault. The schoolyard or more probably the text buddies can never be stopped but it is foolish to think that TV the most powerful of the medias doesn't have any effect. That's like saying the disgusting little so called teenage girl magazines telling them "how to pleasure your man" or "give him the best blow job ever" do no harm. It encourages some of them to do things they probably wouldn't if they hadn't read it.
If TV didn't have any effect then there are millions of pounds of advertising money being wasted every day.
If only one new kid hears something on the news or is told by his parents who have seen the news and spreads this through his network of text buddies the effect can be huge. You're right word is spread rapidly between themselves but one of them has to find out this info first. The reporting of things in this way can give them the source.
See still not full blown rant.......I'm off to see the medic.
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knows how to poison cats and puncture tyres anyway......
thats not nice 
SWMBO has put her moggies on House Arrest, and with the Pup from hell all in one house, and with Strictly come dancing starting tomorrow I am thinking of disappearing till the coast is clear 
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