Distasteful?

[Ironside]

cant make edinburgh as i am on bed rest at present

the rules being relaxed IMHO is good and i hope it continues

atleast the public can hear from the  people at the front end and not those buracacts in an office in london

with the freedom of info act i think it would be hard to gag a member of the forces now anyway

[Geo the Sarge]

cant make edinburgh as i am on bed rest at present

the rules being relaxed IMHO is good and i hope it continues

atleast the public can hear from the  people at the front end and not those buracacts in an office in london

with the freedom of info act i think it would be hard to gag a member of the forces now anyway

Ok mate, get well soon. some other time hopefully.

Geo

[bolt pp]

The media(British press in particular) are so fu**ed up it's unreal.

With one hand they're stuffing the pockets of the soldiers family's with money for their stories and with the other writing about the impropriety surrounding them selling their stories.

I was watching the news yesterday morning and they had a lady vicar on BBC news24 who they'd requisitioned to talk about the teenage boy that was stabbed to death in leytonstone and how that had impacted upon the local community.

The guy asks her this question:" knife crime is becoming more and more prevalent amongst the youth of today and everytime we have one of these tragedies we see a local community leader or social commentater on the t.v expounding upon the broader class issues surrounding these incidents, but it never really does any good does it, the children arnt watching and it's quickly forgotten about so why do you think you coming on the t.v is going to be of any benefit in helping to stop and highlight the growing knife culture of moder day Britain"?

WTF!!!!!!!!!

So basically they've got her up out of bed, done her make up, done all the pre interview work with her to ask her: "what's the point of this interview, they never do any good, haven't you got anything better to do"!!!!

what a fu**in idiot question, stitched her right up

She did'nt really know what to say, i'd of said"what do you want me to say, your the ones that asked me to come and do the interview you mug"

Try to be as uninfluenced as possible by  the emotive reporting methods of the British media, most of whom have there own political agendas.

The incontrovertible facts will be widely available about a story of significant public interst if you look hard enough, this situation is an exasperating paradigm of how the media has far too much power and influence over the way in which the British public receives it's news.

[AlexMartin]

For my two cents worth its only wrong because this is an exception, not the rule.
 
We live in a society dominated by wealth and to allow these to sell their story and not allow other servicemen to reap the rewards is wrong. As for the ppl that say the story is going to come out through freinds and family anyhow, let them. You cant allow a one off especially for those that work so hard in circumstances most of us couldnt dream of.

Definite MOD propaganda and utterly distasteful and disrespectful.

[tikay]

bolt understands how the media works......

Try to be as uninfluenced as possible by  the emotive reporting methods of the British media, most of whom have there own political agendas.

But people still believe what they read in the papers, or what thry hear, instead of saying to themselves "does this REALLY add up?".

Folks used to be the same with Doctors - "the doc said I need to rest for a week, so I can't go to work" - even though they were by now as fit as a fiddle. It's an authority thing I think.

[Ironside]

listening to john nicol on the bbc this morning i have to agree with him

this is not an execption anymore

he was still serving when he wrote and published his book

the recent VC winner has also sold his story while serving

personally i thnk we should be hearing the true story rather than an "offical release" which would be edited to serve the MOD

now next year we will all be reading bits from tony blairs book after he stands down

so its ok for the guy who order the troops to war to make a million

but its not allright for the troops to make a few quid telling there side

or will you call his book distastfull?

[johnbhoy76]

The situation is not going well out there.

3 years on and still no WMD's

Thousands of people dead and two countries (Afghanistan & Iraq) destroyed. and the threat of a terrorist attack is now higher than before the US/Brits went in there.

Basically the government need a story to try to justify staying out there and a Story about "our boys" being captured and a feamle being "forced to wear a headscarf" will keep all the Sun & Daily Mail readers foaming at the mouth for a few more weeks.

[tantrum]

not distasteful but cynical and calculated.