Wacky Judges

yesbutno wrote:I would never read the Sun (or the Mail or the Express) disgusting rags.

I remember seeing the headlines in the Sun once which more or less accused a Coronation Street actor of being a peodofile. The case didn't go to court, the man was not charged I don't think he was even arrested. Whenever he meets someone now, in the back of their will be this Sun non-story. But what do they care. Sell them papers is all that matters.

Reebok Trotter wrote:

yesbutno wrote:I would never read the Sun (or the Mail or the Express) disgusting rags.

I remember seeing the headlines in the Sun once which more or less accused a Coronation Street actor of being a peodofile. The case didn't go to court, the man was not charged I don't think he was even arrested. Whenever he meets someone now, in the back of their will be this Sun non-story. But what do they care. Sell them papers is all that matters.

I take it you are referring to the 1983 case of Peter Adamson and his extra mural activities at Haslingden baths ?

It cost him £120,000 to defend himself and he was acquitted by the jury. Back then, the prosecution were not allowed to mention any previous shenanigans at the baths so he was only charged with the one offence with the undercover policewoman bather as the principal witness. Back then they did not have the capability to video interview children which made the prosecution's case a difficult one.

It was actually the staff at the Leisure centre that raised concerns with the police about his conduct, but again, back in 1983 there were no CCTV cameras in the swimming baths.

Angry Dad wrote:Can never understand these people that are loaded piss it all away on booze.

Angry Dad wrote:

Reebok Trotter wrote:

yesbutno wrote:I would never read the Sun (or the Mail or the Express) disgusting rags.

I remember seeing the headlines in the Sun once which more or less accused a Coronation Street actor of being a peodofile. The case didn't go to court, the man was not charged I don't think he was even arrested. Whenever he meets someone now, in the back of their will be this Sun non-story. But what do they care. Sell them papers is all that matters.

I take it you are referring to the 1983 case of Peter Adamson and his extra mural activities at Haslingden baths ?

It cost him £120,000 to defend himself and he was acquitted by the jury. Back then, the prosecution were not allowed to mention any previous shenanigans at the baths so he was only charged with the one offence with the undercover policewoman bather as the principal witness. Back then they did not have the capability to video interview children which made the prosecution's case a difficult one.

It was actually the staff at the Leisure centre that raised concerns with the police about his conduct, but again, back in 1983 there were no CCTV cameras in the swimming baths.

He,s been dead for 10 years but what a tragic end to his life a skint old man shuffling to the corner shop in his slippers for cheap lable food .Can never understand these people that are loaded piss it all away on booze.

gloswhite wrote:how do you account for the paper being the most widely read, including politicians, in the country ? Can't all be as stupid as you have convinced yourself.

largehat wrote:

gloswhite wrote:how do you account for the paper being the most widely read, including politicians, in the country ? Can't all be as stupid as you have convinced yourself.

I don't think anyone would argue that everyone who reads The Sun is thick. People buy a certain newspaper regularly or daily for a variety of reasons. Price is one of them, another is how easy they are to read. Some people buy a newspaper just for its sports coverage or they like the TV magazine, or the crossword.

I do think it is fair to say that there are a lot of people out there who are influenced by the standpoint of The Sun and The Daily Mail. You don't have to be unintelligent to fall under their influence or manipulated by a biased article.

These newspapers are purposefully populist and deliberately appeal to a sensibility of outrage, injustice, jingoism and xenophobia that a lot of people have.

They play on fear.

Fear that foreigners are taking all the jobs, fear that the unemployed are milking the taxes of working people, fear that the NHS might let you down when you need it, fear that our streets are not safe, fear that the legal system doesn't deliver justice... I could go on.

Politicians and other key decision makers in the country read The Sun because they need to know what garbage the masses are having programmed into their thinking on a regular basis and as part of keeping their finger on the national pulse. They also hope for the support of The Sun because it is so influential.

As I said earlier in the thread, there's nothing wrong with reading The Sun so long as you are aware that you're not only reading the news you're also being told what to think about it.

gloswhite wrote:LH, good points, well put, and the only thing I would add is that we are all influenced to greater lesser degrees, but its up to us to decide what the message is, and to add whatever credence we wish give it, then act accordingly, if so desired. If you believe the Sun too often, then you are in danger of becomng a lazy thinker, but this applies to all the papers.

AD, a very good reason, same as myself, and when I'm not trying to be erudite, I get it for the tits and the telly

Angry Dad wrote:The Tits have been better of late,it went thru a fried egg phase