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Respect where it's due, Well done for getting the apology from the filth that is the tabloids. The money is only peanuts obviously as the papers made millions off the back of this but good for them that they had he balls to take on the ussually untouchable British "media" and won. Maybe if everybody started standing up to the tabloids the media would become half decent in the UK.

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/itn/20080319/tuk-newspapers-apologise-to-mccanns-dba1618.html

You want to know how to make the papers decent? Stop buying the crap ones and they'll stop printing crap.

agreed..I have a plan..everyone who buys a tabloid should get a  kick in the crotch when they pay for it, to "go with their paper". Sort of a Pavlovian "reward" scheme.

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over the years i have stopped buying different newspapers, what's the point of not being able to trust what you are reading, the papers want headlines and stories which are sensational to sell papers, giving no thought  to what effect this will have on the person and his family, if they just print the facts i will make my own opinion, when they go way over the top consistently i just get peed off and dont bother buying there paper anymore, its the only thing they understand

and what if it turns out that the papers were right..................

doesn't matter..you can not go around accusing people of crap. That is the whole point. The papers should not accuse people of things..they should report the facts.

If it turns out the McCanns are guilty, and they are taken to court over it then the papers can report on it.

Neither the McCanns were ever charged (thusfar) nor was that other guy in this case  (Robert Murat) and the papers really destroyed that guys life over this. I reckon he too should sue the crap out of them and get paid a fortune in compensation.

It is not the job of the media to throw around accusations. Nor is it the job of the media to dig up dirt on someone they simply don't like. (Also not uncommon) The media should not make the news but they should report it.

Admittedly I am rather old-fashioned when it comes to these things but there ya go.

i'll bet you subscribe to sky though and they are worse than the all the tabloids put together................

i wish it was as simple as being the truth or a lie, if they printed reports which where lies they would be sued, but sometimes its not a matter of if there right or wrong ,but just a evil and  distorted view on a person or news report they know to be exaggerated which do damage beyond repair to peoples lives just to sell papers,  but these articles can be put down to opinion and freedom of speech, that's why they have been getting away with destroying people for years

Rupert Murdoch is the devil incarnate (mainly for his work behind the scenes of politics)..there is no doubt in my mind about that.
But other then Mr Murdoch being evil I don't quite see how Sky is worse than all tabloids put together, would be interested hearing your views on that one. (BTW, I do not watch Sky News as I found it to be as shit as BBC news 24)

i have sky myself, i have found sky news very good, just reporting the facts and letting me make my own opinion, i agree this is unusual for rupert murdoch, but i have not got a problem with sky over there news reporting

The main issue I have with Sky news is that it's very entertainment oriented. Very gossipy and I simply don't give a crap about what happens to Britney Spears or if Madonna wants to buy another baby.

 :redcard: ;grr; Sky FTW.

This isn't overly unusual, Murdoch is a very smart guy and realises not too many people watch sky news so there isnt much point distorting it, unlike say fox in the states which is manipulated to the hilt and would do Joseph Goebbels proud.

Was it not true the mcanns left the children on there own. I know if over here I would surely be facing a charge. But your right in tabloids always fabricating

Well if the papers have highlighted that a couple of pseudo posh types are responsible for their daughter getting snatched because they failed to look after her properly then maybe they have done a good job and many kids in the future may be saved.

if they had looked after their children properly in the first place then they had needn't have worried about what the papers would write about them.

Bollocks in my opinion. Another 500k to spend 'looking' for someone who quite clearly isnt going to be found.

nice timing tho. year anniversary coming up and all that. wp

There is surely a MASSIVE difference between saying "I left my kid" and a newspaper claiming "YOU KILLED HER AND HID HER BODY!"?

Come on!..how can people not see that?

Exactly this is why the newspaper reports that criticised their actual actions didn't result in libel - only the cretins who just made stuff up without any evidence were sued.

i hope they spend it on parenting lessons ;)

I know I shouldn't but I lol'ed at that.

ffs boldie..... over 3 hours to reply????? when u coming to london? read u might come in april?

I have nothing planned in April....so if I can scrounge up a result I might treat the Mrs to a weekend there...might just find myself in the vacinity of a poker room as well..accidentally. But will definitely be in London at some stage this year to play (If I don't make Vegas London will be in June/July)...Would be nice if there was a fessie at Equal Chance at some stage so I could go for a few days :)

And 3 hours to reply because I had to drive around for an hour and a half trying to find a decent curry place and failed..(I shit you not).

Two shits and a crap in this thread Boldie. Have you got a fixation?

Thats what happens when you buy cheap curry.  :)

lol nothing slips past you, Mr Red.

Bobby...the curry last night wasn't even good enough to give me the runs...more sad than funny really. :(