The Marksman wrote:I agree with Heysham and Mr Head. They found a story, and they reported it, why shouldn't they. The bid has been poorly run since day one, and all this talk of "£3bn brought into the economy" is a fag packet calculation and also neglects the outlay that would have to be made to be able to host the thing. I reckon it's more trouble than it's worth...
Posh wrote:The Marksman wrote:I agree with Heysham and Mr Head. They found a story, and they reported it, why shouldn't they. The bid has been poorly run since day one, and all this talk of "£3bn brought into the economy" is a fag packet calculation and also neglects the outlay that would have to be made to be able to host the thing. I reckon it's more trouble than it's worth...
It's good to see so much negativity.
As regards 'they found a story, and they reported it, why shouldn't they'. Firstly the press agreed on getting rid of chequebook journalism. Here they've broken it yet again by paying someone £75K to invade someone's privacy and lie in order to do so. I find that contemptible.
The Mail repeated stories from The Daily Express regarding the McCann family that it knew full well to be lies. Hey but why shoot the messenger! No ethics here folks!
As for the calculations, figures for economic benefit are always difficult to calculate exactly. However with pre-built stadiums and infrastructure the costs are low and the benefits in bringing in tens of thousands of oversees football supporters, the team, the media and the jamboree of sponsors does put huge amounts into the host country. Euro 96 proved that point very well.
Finally the Daily Mail has a history of lying for its own political ends.
The Zinoviev letter brought down the first Labour government - it turned out to be a forgery http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zinoviev_letter
Lies about Blue Peter in order to further the agenda of its bosses to scrap the BBC http://www.septicisle.info/2007/09/new- ... -mail.html
Lies about camps in Calais because it wants to scare people witless about immigation http://nobordersbrighton.blogspot.com/2 ... -lies.html
http://www.fivechinesecrackers.com/2007 ... _4713.html
http://truthformadeleine.com/2008/07/ro ... rt-action/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/ma ... daily-mail
The Daily Mail's front page of 8 July, 1934, featured the headline "HURRAH FOR THE BLACKSHIRTS". The Mail also referred to Hitler's "sturdy young Nazis".
On 16 July 1993 the Mail ran the headline "Abortion hope after 'gay genes' finding" this headline has been widely criticised in subsequent years, for example as "perhaps the most infamous and disturbing headline of all" (of headlines from tabloid newspapers commenting on the Xq28 gene).
The 16 October 2009 Jan Moir article on the death of Stephen Gately which many people felt was inaccurate, insensitive, and homophobic, generated over 25,000 complaints, the highest number of complaints for a newspaper article in the history of the Press Complaints Commission. Major advertisers such as Marks and Spencer responded to the criticism by asking for their own adverts to be removed from the Mail Online webpage around Moir's article. The Daily Mail removed all display ads from the webpage with the Gately column.
I could go on but you would probably shoot the messenger.
durhamshrimp wrote:I've boycotted it for years. Mainly due to the bigotry, racism and xenophobia though.
Richard Head wrote:I'm not sure what relevance a headline from 1934 has so we can forget that one but all the other examples quoted are when lies or inaccuracies were used in a story. That did not happen in this case, Triesman just let his mouth runaway with itself.
Since the story broke has anyone confirmed whether Triesman actually believed what he was saying about Spain and Russia or was he just blowing hot air? If he believed it, is there any evidence out there to back him up?
Richard Head wrote:I'm not sure what relevance a headline from 1934 has so we can forget that one
Heysham_Shrimp wrote:So by your argument you absolutely abhor the sting carried out with brown envelopes on Neil Hamilton
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