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Topic History of: Another Photoshop one here JK?
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steveimp |
I started my career in a media job. Long hours, rubbish wages, but good 'perks'. Thankfully it was very much a desk job, so you could look up from your computer occasionally and see the mess in front of you that 'famous people' have caused (one ex Racing Driver from many many years ago was very good in that regard).
Thankfully I now work in the IT industry, on nearly triple the wages and work decent hours!  |
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steveimp |
david wrote:
crikey that photo is pure manipulation- as if he could leap out of his wheelchair and abuse kids, or would do so in front of newspaper cameramen (maybe they would offer to pay him to do so lol)
It's Brass Eye all over again.
Chris Morris - how right that man was/is. |
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veritas |
quite frankly..it's really a hoot of an article and The Sun's prudish attempt at shock and horror is laughable.
That said..how vile of them to place a photograph of a child in any situation like this. I had a huge argument working on a News Ltd tabloid once when they ran photos of Cambodian boys a pedofile was supposed to have abused along with their location and names.
Under normal laws , identifying children is absolutely forbidden but because they were Third World kids the editor seemed to believe they were exempt. I was pleased when an NGO pointed out the same and the newspaper had to give an apology.
The one thing I've found from working in the media, is that 1. journalists and photographers have the foulest mouths I've ever encountered 2. I wouldn't trust any of them with my granny let alone a child and 3. I've come to be shocked at how maleable journalists become and begin to believe their own rubbish.
Forget celebrities..those who work in tabloids become the greatest moralists of all time and believe they really are doing something of note. Of course Freud would have a field day with that.
Most of them will be out of work in 5 years. |
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JK2006 |
And the GOOD news is... I can assure you as both a victim of "monstering" and as a SUN columnist for ten years, the vast majority of both the public and Sun readers are NOT as brain dead as some editors and observers believe.
Since my release I've had nearly 100% positive and supportive reaction from strangers and over the decade of getting letters for my weekly page in the Sun I can assure you that an astonishing amount of readers (or, certainly, writers) are not fooled by the extremes. |
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Locked Out |
Pardon me if I suggest that this guy's command of the English language doesn't mark him out as anything other than the sort of person who, were they not attempting to crucify him in order to provide yet more salacious thrills for the dubious benefit of their readers, as a typical Sun reader. Tabloid journalism has hit a new low. We're all familiar with the {parentally negligent} circumstances of Madeleine McCann's disappearance. Does anyone truly believe that this broken, pathetic and crippled old man - despicable as he may be - could so successfully and completely spirit away another human being? The answer, depressingly, is that of course people will believe that if the Sun tells them that that is what happened. After all it's not the truth that either interests or titillates them. But the Great British Public gets the press it deserves. Is there no end to the cynicism?
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