Richard Littlejohn in late bid to steal Kelvin MacKenzie's crown...

[Dermot]

The best artcicle I read was a short piece by Matthew Paris in the Times last week. He was simply calling for the murder victims to be 'women' first and foremost. He was saddened that their humanity was lost behind the monicker 'prostitute'.

 

As for Littlejohn, I'm afraid he comes across as rather bitter in the Mail article. Whatever point he felt he wanted to make was lost in a sea of vitriol and terrible timing. His lack of compassion damages him as a man, and it undermines whatever viewpoint he feels he is bringing to the table.

 

He obviously carries a long term anti-Guardian agenda (and all of that is fine in the name of free speech, debate and opinion), but to continue this running feud in such poor taste is appalling.

 

 

PS - I do sometimes buy the Mail. To admit that on here might make me something of a pariah, judging by the hostile and intolerant opinions against it that I have read. Having said that I occasionally buy said paper, I am appalled by the Littlejohn piece under scrutiny in this thread.

 

Not a pariah, my concern with any paper, but in particular the likes of the Sun, the Mail, the express etc... is that a lot of the people that read them confuse opinion with fact and take a lot of the things that are said by the likes of Littlejohn at face value and do not question it, you obviously do not fall into this category.

 

More worrying I think is that the opinions but forth by these papers are widely held by people, that there are people that agree with the Daily Mail's regular ascertion that the Middle Classes are under attack from the government/Europe/Killer bees/etc...

[wiiksie]

PS - I do sometimes buy the Mail. To admit that on here might make me something of a pariah, judging by the hostile and intolerant opinions against it that I have read. Having said that I occasionally buy said paper, I am appalled by the Littlejohn piece under scrutiny in this thread.

The Mail is a tabloid piece of shit mate, lets not pretend otherwise. My ma and pa have been reading it for years so I see the bile it publishes. Its the print equivalent of the tory ads in the last election:

[Cardie]

The best artcicle I read was a short piece by Matthew Paris in the Times last week. He was simply calling for the murder victims to be 'women' first and foremost. He was saddened that their humanity was lost behind the monicker 'prostitute'.

 

Now this is what I don't understand, and frankly think is oversensitive bollocks.

 

Calling them prostitutes or refering to it as prostitute killings is entirely valid as it's what appeared to be driving the killings. People can moan and act outraged at the idea that the term prostitute is offensive but tough, it's neccesary to explain the actions of the killer.

 

They also seem to ignore the fact that when the women are mentioned individually they are called by name.

[Stu Monty]

The best artcicle I read was a short piece by Matthew Paris in the Times last week. He was simply calling for the murder victims to be 'women' first and foremost. He was saddened that their humanity was lost behind the monicker 'prostitute'.

 

As for Littlejohn, I'm afraid he comes across as rather bitter in the Mail article. Whatever point he felt he wanted to make was lost in a sea of vitriol and terrible timing. His lack of compassion damages him as a man, and it undermines whatever viewpoint he feels he is bringing to the table.

 

He obviously carries a long term anti-Guardian agenda (and all of that is fine in the name of free speech, debate and opinion), but to continue this running feud in such poor taste is appalling.

 

 

PS - I do sometimes buy the Mail. To admit that on here might make me something of a pariah, judging by the hostile and intolerant opinions against it that I have read. Having said that I occasionally buy said paper, I am appalled by the Littlejohn piece under scrutiny in this thread.

 

 

Well you really should know better than to buy it. This is the paper that backed the Nazis all the way up until the point it was literally impossible to support them anymore. That would be way after everyone was aware of Hitler's little project with the Jews.

 

As they say in "Is it just me or is everything shit" it''s a good job the nazis didn't win the war or the Mail would have been free to spend every day campaigning to have burnt at the stake all the immigrants, single mothers, gays, liberals, poor people.......oh, right.

[mattyq]

I must admit, seriously, that i do look down on mail and express and sun/star readers. Snobbery, i know but i can't help it.

[Stu Monty]

I must admit, seriously, that i do look down on mail and express and sun/star readers. Snobbery, i know but i can't help it.

 

It's not snobbery. It's common sense and good judgement.

[Michael Howard]

Reading the Daily Mail is bad for you. You feel suicidal after reading it. Everything is slanted towards their agenda - immigrants are the cause of everything bad, political correctness rules the world. A truly depressing read. It is the 'burbs version of the Sun.

 

However I used to commute into Liverpool by train and ended up buying it to read for about a year as it lasted the length of the journey and you could still turn the pages on a packed train. I literally whooped for joy the day the little tabloid Independent was launched and don't think i have bought the Mail since (except maybe on a Saturday for a DVD or CD offer).

 

Littlejohn is a cretin. Even when i read the Mail i used to skip his column. He had a couple of reasonable points to make but they were largely lost in an otherwise distasteful and unecessarilly nasty and spiteful rant.

[Paco]

[CharleyKnight]

I can see what he's trying to say but he's out of order and needs to tone it down massively. I hate smack heads and bag heads and anyone on this thread who says they don't is lying. But his comments are ill timed and typical of a middle class cunt who knows nothing about the real world.

[G Richards]

My usual newspaper is the Times. If I don't have the time then I'll resort to a tabloid (or sometimes no newspaper). Given the tabloid choice of Mail, Express, Mirror, Sun and Star, I tend to go for the Mail. I find that it is better than the other tabloids, though obviously not better than a broadsheet.

[Christian]

Gawd, that's real low. Littlejohn is such a twat.

[Kopite]

I think there are some fair points in that article but they are masked by the bile.

 

The minutes silence (if true) for one. There are servicemen and women getting killed almost every week in Iraq/Afghanistan. Where is the minutes silence for them?

 

Littlejohn is an obnoxious c*nt though.

[CharleyKnight]

I think there are some fair points in that article but they are masked by the bile.

 

The minutes silence (if true) for one. There are servicemen and women getting killed almost every week in Iraq/Afghanistan. Where is the minutes silence for them?

Littlejohn is an obnoxious c*nt though.

 

Excellent point there mate. I think the whole minutes silence thing has been devalued over the years. There's hardly a match you go to where there isn't a minutes silence before kick off. I don't want to sound callous but they always have them. When Daniel Agger's cat died they had a minutes silence for him. Fucking stupid!

[The Chief]

Does the part where he says "Blair will attend one of the funerals and proclaim them "The peoples prostitutes" mean the police should be looking for an everton fan?

[hamstrung]

The best artcicle I read was a short piece by Matthew Paris in the Times last week. He was simply calling for the murder victims to be 'women' first and foremost. He was saddened that their humanity was lost behind the monicker 'prostitute'.

.

 

I've noticed that on 5live before they arrested anyone it was always "5 prostitutes". Since they arrested that first geezer, its changed to "5 women"

 

Now this is what I don't understand, and frankly think is oversensitive bollocks.

 

Calling them prostitutes or refering to it as prostitute killings is entirely valid as it's what appeared to be driving the killings. People can moan and act outraged at the idea that the term prostitute is offensive but tough, it's neccesary to explain the actions of the killer.

 

They also seem to ignore the fact that when the women are mentioned individually they are called by name.

 

I can see both sides of this. It probably wouldn't happen if they were accountants - its the salacious aspect of it. I think if you're reporting sensitively, its women first prostitute second.

[Stu Monty]

If it were any occupation they would be termed that way. 5 milkmen - the milkmen murders. Definitely.

[hamstrung]

If it were any occupation they would be termed that way. 5 milkmen - the milkmen murders. Definitely.

 

It would, but not so obviously. And were it just one milkman it would only be mentioned in passing whereas the prostitute thing was the main angle when it was 1 victim.

[Cardie]

I can see both sides of this. It probably wouldn't happen if they were accountants - its the salacious aspect of it.

 

Teacher

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/allnews/content_objectid=13916571_method=full_siteid=50143_headline=-TEACHER-KILLED-BY-SICK-INTERNET-PERVERT-name_page.html

 

Lawyer

http://edinburghnews.scotsman.com/uk.cfm?id=66222006

 

Chef

http://www.newsday.com/news/local/longisland/ny-lithom1203,0,6629670.story

 

etc etc etc

[Stu Monty]

I blame Linda La Plante. If there's mutilated hookers about and a deviant criminal to be caught she's usually not far away.

 

Has anyone called Helen Mirren in on this one yet, and, as Tom would say, If not then why not?

[hamstrung]

Teacher

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/allnews/content_objectid=13916571_method=full_siteid=50143_headline=-TEACHER-KILLED-BY-SICK-INTERNET-PERVERT-name_page.html

 

Lawyer

http://edinburghnews.scotsman.com/uk.cfm?id=66222006

 

Chef

http://www.newsday.com/news/local/longisland/ny-lithom1203,0,6629670.story

 

etc etc etc

 

Family of woman murdered by stalker launch appeal for witnesses

 

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/12/13/urezk13.xml

 

Murdered man found in street

 

http://scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com/scotland.cfm?id=537042003

 

N.Irish murdered man’s sisters take campaign to US

 

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/03ba83f4-9496-11d9-8dd3-00000e2511c8.html

 

Murdered woman's daughter seeks information from public

 

http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/breaking-news/ireland/article2077202.ece

 

etc etc etc

[Cardie]

Point being?

 

I didn't say it didn't also happen in that way, you implied that it was the fact they were prostitutes that drove the 'prostitute' headlines as it was more salacious.

 

That clearly isn't the case.

[hamstrung]

Point being?

 

I didn't say it didn't also happen in that way, you implied that it was the fact they were prostitutes that drove the 'prostitute' headlines as it was more salacious.

 

That clearly isn't the case.

 

It clearly isn't?

 

Nonsense.

[theghost]

honestly, i didnt see much wrong with the article. Sure, it's a bit extreme but let him express his opinion. Cant say I agree but opinions are nothing to blow your skirt up over.

[rargh]

Does the part where he says "Blair will attend one of the funerals and proclaim them "The peoples prostitutes" mean the police should be looking for an everton fan?

 

No, it means that the prime suspect is The Rock.

 

I'll get me coat...

[Joeys Pogo]

Littlejohn by name Littlejohn in real life I suspect.

 

Twat - end of