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Would Cameron have been so forgetful if the minimum pricing plan for alcohol had been in place? :-
@wordsworth60 wrote:
@Sgt Pepper wrote:
. . . . . too comfortable to accuse Mr. Cameron . . . . . .
I’m very comfortable accusing Mr Camer . . .(completion failed through nausea . . . ) 8) 8) 8)
I “rest” my case.
:wink:
*picks up Pepper’s case and rummages through it looking for bamboo.
Bamboozled to be sure! 8)
But seriously punda.. Do you honestly think that if it were any other family in this instance, there would be MORE media attention?
@Sgt Pepper wrote:
Bamboozled to be sure! 8)
But seriously punda.. Do you honestly think that if it were any other family in this instance, there would be MORE media attention?
Yes.
Not a lot of media attention in this case due to a media cover up.
Who pulls the media strings in this country?
Well, the connections between politics and the media certainly can’t be denied, especially when one considers the events and revelations of recent years.
However I do find it mystifying to assume that anyone else in this instance would receive MORE media heat?
Wouldn’t that mean the papers would be bulging every week with such cases? Or am I not living in the real world?who leaked the story?………….and why wait so long? :lol:
@tinks wrote:
who leaked the story?………….and why wait so long? :lol:
The former, I don’t know, the latter, well it’s old news, happened a few weeks ago, best reveal it when Brown is at the Leveson inquiry. :wink:
@Sgt Pepper wrote:
Well, the connections between politics and the media certainly can’t be denied, especially when one considers the events and revelations of recent years.
However I do find it mystifying to assume that anyone else in this instance would receive MORE media heat?
Wouldn’t that mean the papers would be bulging every week with such cases? Or am I not living in the real world?I’m perhaps more cynical than you but the Tories and media mogul Murdoch are in bed together. Murdoch has his fingers in a lot of media pies…
Oh I certainly agree with you there punda, and believe me I can be as instinctively cynical as most, although I do try to fight the urge.
The only difficulty I have with your point is the theory that more would be made of this in the media if it were anyone else. As you can see I believe the polar opposite to be true in this instance. Even without the conspiracy theories I simply can’t see it.
And why? Well, simply because it happens almost every day. I myself have seen similar instances. Never have I seen a rush of hacks though.. Unless in the event of extreme and/or tragic consequences.
But I’m ok with agreeing to disagree on that.
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