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Paul Dacre Must Die PDF Print E-mail
Written by Uponnothing   
Thursday, 26 November 2009 17:40

The Daily Mail are a fucking disgrace of a newspaper. I hope Paul Dacre dies a slow and painful death and that people queue up to shit on his grave. The current top story on the Mail Website (betting it will be front page news tomorrow with a special defecation from Littlejohn who must be drooling reading this one) is this: 'Mapping out the strain on your NHS: 243 sick babies treated in one London hospital ward.... and just 18 mothers were born in the UK'. Naturally this story has already found its way onto the Stormfront forums and will no doubt be picked up by the BNP and other racist organisations gathering 'evidence' of how the poor white child is neglected in favour of the ethnically diverse child.

I've scouted the website of the hospital involved - London's Chelsea and Westminster - and cannot find a copy of this map or any press release relating to it so I cannot verify any information or put it into any real context - exactly what the Daily Mail wants. The whole article concerns a map made to celebrate the diversity of mothers that give birth in the hospital. It seems to involve mothers being asked to put a pin on a map to show their original birth place. The Mail does not specify the timescale over which the data is collected, nor does it specify whether all mothers were asked or whether the hospital went out of the way to collect data only from foreign mothers.

The whole article is just whinging at the fact that people from other countries have given birth to children in a British hospital. We don't get given any further information than that because the Mail knows that the headline is enough to get the usual idiots foaming at the mouth about 'immigration' and 'loony-left madness' etc.

As for those wankstains moaning about the cost to the taxpayer - £1400 a day according to the Mail, not a figure they provide a link for - I may complain about paying taxes as much as the next guy, but you know what, I get a warm feeling when I see this map. I pretend that all of the tax I've paid this year has gone on just saving one child's life and it somehow makes it all worthwhile. A fellow human being has given birth to a child and thanks to the NHS it has survived. It is a triumph for humanity over arbitrary borders, of compassion over hateful 'not in my country' types who would pull up the drawbridge and say 'fuck you' to the rest of humanity even if they were sick children who would die without our assistance.

When you read this Daily Mail headline - and if you dare, the whole article and comments - it is easy to forget that Sue Reid - the author of this disgusting piece of hatred journalism - is actually talking about the lives of sick babies - something supposedly sacred. Here they are described as a 'strain' and used as an example of 'the changing face of Britain'.

Personally I celebrate the fact that 'The 243 mothers are from 72 different nations. They include Mongolia, the remotest regions of Russia, Japan, Africa, South America, swathes of Asia, Australasia and even Papua New Guinea'. I think it speaks volume about the value that we as a nation place on human life; that we are in the majority a nation who doesn't worry about the nationality of a child that might die but instead save it - regardless of whether we can wring the money out of the parent.

I just pretend that none of my taxes go to treating a single sick Mail reader. And I consider them all to be sick for wanting to enrage themselves with such hateful bullshit each day, and for treating the lives of a few sick children as a burden which we must get rid off.

 


Update:

Thankfully Five Chinese Crackers has had the patience (and past experience with Sue Reid) to properly look into this story and has an excellent post on this, please go read it because Sue Reid really is a piece of shit. He also includes the following press release issued by the hospital that demonstrates just what a complete farce the story is, although I suspect the damage has already been done. If Littlejohn uses this story tomorrow (if he can even be arsed to shit out a column that is) then he really will demonstrate that he is never about 'reporting the facts' as he so laughably puts it. Here is the press release (massive hat-tip to 5CC for this):

'Chelsea and Westminster Hospital is a specialist referral centre and cares for patients of many different backgrounds, reflecting London’s very diverse population.

'Of the 550 babies admitted to our Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) every year, a very small number of these are overseas patients. In 2009, there have been just two overseas admissions.

'The map was placed in the NICU nearly four years ago to provide the families of the babies we care for, as well as staff, with an opportunity to indicate their background if they wished. It is not an indication of country of residence or citizenship.

'It was intended to illustrate the diversity of staff working on the unit and the families of the babies we care for, to encourage everyone to reflect on different cultures, in a fun and informal way.

'Chelsea and Westminster Hospital’s NICU provides intensive care, high dependency and special care facilities for babies and is a specialist referral centre for neonatal surgery.'

Last Updated on Thursday, 26 November 2009 22:42
 
Police respond to grieving family concerns... Mail not happy PDF Print E-mail
Written by Uponnothing   
Thursday, 05 November 2009 22:00

Another day, another attack on the Police Force from the Daily Mail. Today's outraged headline is: 'Unsolved murder'... who you gonna call? Ghostbusters! (Or how police wasted £20,000 probing suicide after tip-off by psychics). The article starts:

 

even the most diligent of officers would balk at the idea of launching a murder investigation based on a paranormal tip from a group of psychics.

This, however, is what Dyfed Powys Police did, even though officers were faced with what looked like a clear case of suicide.

 

Well, they didn't really launch a murder investigation on a tip-off from a group of psychics, the truth is buried (as usual) at the very end of the article:

 

A spokesman for Dyfed Powys Police said: 'The revelations of the mystics were brought to our attention via the family and these were followed to reassure the family that the full circumstances of the death were as they appeared.

'Police have a responsibility to investigate all deaths thoroughly.'


The police were pretty much in an impossible situation, if they had ignored any concerns that the family had, then they'd be accused of neglecting the concerns of taxpayers, if they do investigate then they're accused of wasting money. That is the trouble with Tabloid newspapers, they can never really lose because they can damn someone if they do, and damn them if they don't.

Imagine the family's point of view in this situation; they have to deal with the suicide of a family member and they would probably want to cling to any possibility that the family member did not take their own life. If they are offered any possibility that there was something more to the case I imagine they would want the police to investigate - no matter how slim the chances are of success.

But the Mail only like to pursue the human angle when it suits them, in this case they'd rather go down the 'police wasting money' mocking of a force trying to do the right thing by a grieving family. Just another day of gutter journalism.
 
A post about stupid racists PDF Print E-mail
Written by Uponnothing   
Thursday, 08 October 2009 20:19

I know this is treading very old ground and it has been covered a thousand times by thousands of people, but I feel I must for cathartic purposes repeat it: 'Paki' is not the same as 'Brit' - not even remotely.

I'll try and explain why.

Firstly, we don't go around calling people 'Brits' or 'Yanks' or 'Poles' unless we definitely know they happen to be from that country - and of course, they have to be from a different country to the one we were born in, otherwise the term of 'endearment' doesn't work. If you are the sort of person that does call an American colleague a 'Yank' all the time I'm sure everyone around you thinks you're a completely unwitty arsehole, and they're right. I would probably guess that the only reason for indiscriminately calling a person a 'Paki' is the fact that the person on the receiving end of this 'jolly term of endearment' has brown skin. Of course this person could be from any number of places and is just as likely to not be from Pakistan. When the person is white people are reluctant to shout out 'Brit' or 'Yank' because they don't know where they hell they are from; when the person has brown skin they shout out 'Paki' because they don't give a shit where they are from - they're assumed to be all the same, so one term suits all.

Let's for a moment take the argument at face value: 'Paki is simply short for someone from Pakistan'. So, presumably, if they person on the end of the term is from Pakistan, they should not be offended, but what about the brown skinned people who are not from Pakistan, should they be offended? I would assume that a Welsh person in America would be pissed of if they were called English, because they're not. I know for a fact that Australians dislike being labelled New Zealanders and vice versa, and that if you ever mistake a Canadian accent for American, then both parties are likely to hate you. I think the reason is that we all have a sense of identity, and even if we treat this arbitrarily and have no patriotic fervour I think we can all get pissed off if we are instantly judged to be from somewhere when we're not. It seems to be simple rudeness: we wouldn't presume to make other judgements about strangers, so why blurt out an assumed nationality?

I don't seem to ever recall hearing someone in conversation saying: 'You know that Bangladeshi over the road, he's just bought a new car'. However, I do seem to recall numerous occasions where I've heard what 'Pakis' have been up to. Perhaps everyone only knows brown people that happen to be from Pakistan. Perhaps people from other nationalities (only brown people mind, we'll continue to assume a white person could be from anywhere and find out through conversation) should display clear signs around them showing their nationality and how you shorten it into an affectionate bit of slang for them. If you are from Bangladesh, please have this clearly stated around your neck so anyone wishing to shout at you can do so using your correct nationality - you should consider phonetic spelling to make things easier.

Last Updated on Thursday, 08 October 2009 21:04
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Daily Mail and bullying PDF Print E-mail
Written by Uponnothing   
Thursday, 24 September 2009 16:35
If you search the Daily Mail website for the term 'bullying' you'll get 2172 results. However, if you searched the Daily Mail website for examples of the newspaper bullying someone, you'd get substantially more articles than that. The Daily Mail website is updated so often because it fills its pages with articles criticising celebrities for either being too fat, or too thin. The Daily Mail will criticise a celebrity for being too thin, yet they never stop to think about whether celebrity weight loss is linked to the volume of 'Ohhh look at X, hasn't she / he got fat, doesn't our unflattering photographs make them look awful (click to enlarge)' articles constantly run by tabloid newspapers.

Take the Daily Mail website today, for just one example. On the one hand they seem to be celebrating the fact that Kimberley Walsh seems to be 'the last Girls Aloud member with a shapely figure', calling the other members of the group 'pencil-thin' whilst Miss Walsh is 'all-woman'. So here, the message is clear, if you are 'pencil-thin' you are not a complete woman. However, scroll further down the page and you come across another article criticising Natalie Cassidy: 'Not again! Strictly Come Dancing's Natalie Cassidy wears another sheer top to rehearsals'.

I'm not quite sure just what Natalie Cassidy has done to the Daily Mail or its readers to be on the end of what is a constant stream of bullying articles. From a newspaper that is supposedly trying to prevent the moral fabric of society from tearing apart, it seems strange that they bully certain celebrities with as much vigour as the worst feral school child that they despise so completely. Melanie Phillips often rants about the demise of society being caused by 'multi-culturalism', single mothers or the welfare system, but she hasn't said a word as far as I can see about what influence the tabloid media has when it mocks a person's appearance just so that its readers can log onto a website and join in.
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