WHY DOES THE 24-HOUR MEDIA ALWAYS PLAY THE BLAME GAME?
Posted by Caledonian Jim in Daily Posts
In the aftermath of the terrible events in Cumbria (pictured above) this week, where taxi driver Derrick Bird shot and killed 12 people and seriously injured many more during a totally horrific murder spree before killing himself, Police believe the gunman targetted some of his victims deliberately but picked others at random. A senior police officer working on the complex investigation said Derrick Bird was motivated partly by grudges, but that there was apparently no reason for some of the shootings. As police continued their investigations at some 30 crime scenes, the government warned against a rush to change Britain’s already tough gun laws and Bird’s relatives denied reports of a family feud. Speaking in Cumbria yesterday, Mr Iain Goulding, Detective Chief Superintendent with Cumbria police, told reporters he was determined to uncover the reasons for the killings.
Whatever these reasons may turn out to be, there are already the first signs of a disturbing media witch hunt beginning to be attached to this tragedy. ITV national news started it last night, voicing speculation not only about the late murderer’s mental state and access to firearms but also, most disgracefully, whether Cumbria police had “acted quickly enough” and whether they had been “up to the job”. And there’s also an insidious pressure from particularly Sky News, arrogantly insinuating that the “lack of co-operation from the police with news agencies” indicates that somehow “the police may be covering up their deficiencies”. Now this blog has been critical of certain police forces in the past, notably the goings-on at the G20 last year, but to attempt to smear Cumbria police when they were suddenly confronted by a lunatic killing people without warning and at random is a despicable travesty.
The 24-hour newshounds who pour their vitriol into our living rooms are spending less and less time giving us “news” and instead devoting more and more time to feeding us ill-informed, baseless speculation from self-appointed so-called “experts” standing on street corner crime scenes who inevitably seem to try and justify their fat fees and “expert” status by apportioning blame on someone – anyone – for anything and everything that happens, with no right of appeal or reply for those they impune or accuse. In a case like the Cumbria tragedy, such tactics by the 24-hour news media are as disgusting as they are disrespectful, to both the police and the victims.
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Aspects of the visit to Britain scheduled for later this summer by former Hitler Youth and Nazi anti-aircraft gunner Pope Benedict XVI (pictured above) will reportedly have to be scaled back because of security issues, rising costs and concerns over health and safety. Apparently Roman Catholic church officials had hoped to hold at least 2 major public events in Glasgow and Coventry where hundreds of thousands of the Vatican’s deluded adherents would be able to attend services conducted by the Prussian Pontiff during his official state visit. But these officials now admit that plans to hold similarly large gatherings will be blocked by the limitations of modern health and safety legislation, terrorism fears and rising costs. Good – and here’s an even better idea to promote health and safety, allay terrorism fears and save money – make the Roman Catholic church itself responsible for all the costs of this medieval pantomime - or else better still cancel the whole puerile visit. After all, why should the UK taxpayer pay for a largely unwanted visit by the bigotted titular head of the largest paedophile ring on the planet ?
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While there’s no doubt that the Israeli Defence Force (IDF) have acted like a bunch of neo-Nazi prats in their state piracy (above) on the high seas and their killing of protestors, it must be said that the Turkish charity at the centre of the Gaza aid vessels effort in the Mediterranean is now coming under intense scrutiny over its alleged links with militant organisations. Leaving aside the juvenile right-wing pro-Israeli theatricals of cretins like Glenn Beck of Fox News, and their claims to be an entirely peaceful organisation, it does appear that The Foundation for Human Rights, Freedoms and Humanitarian Relief (IHH) has a history of involvement in Islamic extremism around the world and has been linked with an attempted bombing of an airport in the US. Just the sort of fashionably anti-semitic organisation that the fashionably anti-semitic BBC loves to highlight as a peace-loving delivery mechanism for humanitarian aid, if fact.
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It seems Fergie has flunked it. The beleagured Duchess of York (pictured above) has encountered fierce criticism after her mock-tearful Princess Diana-style “confessional” interview in the US with Oprah Winfrey where she made a pathetic attempt to try and explain how she was caught in the act trying to sell access to her former husband the Duke of York. The Duchess reportedly failed to win over US viewers with her nauseatingly emotional plea that she was trying to raise money for a hard-up friend and was drunk when she accepted a £27,000 cash sweetener. Hundreds of angry viewers posted comments on Miss Winfrey’s website attacking the Duchess. And in the UK we should be asking the Director of Public Prosecutions why a warrant hasn’t been issued for her arrest – and possibly her husband’s too - on suspected bribery and corruption charges.
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