The Daily Mail Comes In For Some Stick On Ab, But Really Is This News?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/gay-man-comes-out-live-on-lbc-radio--and-the-reaction-is-perfect-9912167.html

[wolf63]

Is it maybe a slow-news day?

I am going to stop buying the Daily Mail every day. There ever so slightly biased version of journalism has finally proved to be too much.

I voted NO in the Scottish referendum but I respected that not everybody agreed with my feelings on the matter. The Daily Mail seemed determined to sink Alex Salmond's party and it was distasteful.

Wee Eck is moving south with the intention of taking over the entire country and then, perhaps, world domination. :-)

[anotheoldgit]

wolf63

This wasn't meant to be a dig at the Daily Mail only a comparison between them and the Independent who decided in their wisdom to report on this.

[andy-hughes]

No it's not news in the sense of the word.

Human interest possibly, but news - no.

[wolf63]

I know - I don't dislike the paper. It is just time for me to stop having it delivered.

If you think that this is a 'non-story' try reading the Metro or Huffington Post. Their pages are full of non-stories. They also have loads and loads of cat videos!

:-)

[mccfluff]

its quite a sweet story but i guess its not news, i'm sure all the other papers have equally twee bits of "filler" in them

[mushroom25]

http://www.rathergood.com/cats

:-)

[wolf63]

mushroom

That's not use either. Everybody know that the internet is made of Cats.

Sorry AOG => my brother says that I always manage to turn every conversation around and make it about cats. Do you think that he has a point?

[wolf63]

mushroom - third word should be news and not use. Predictive text drives me nuts

[anotheoldgit]

wolf63

/// Sorry AOG => my brother says that I always manage to turn every conversation around and make it about cats. Do you think that he has a
point? ///

Well you can be a bit 'catty' at times. :0)

[Old_Geezer]

I'd figure the "perfect reaction" would have been to text/tweet/Bookface, "So what ?"

[sp1814]

It's a human interest story.

Most newspapers run them.

I think that perhaps the story is the overwhelmingly positive response from listeners, and as such it's a nice story.

Nothing wrong with a bit of positivity...not all stories about gay people need to be centred on straight people throwing them off buses, calling them to commit suicide, or gay-bashing...

[anotheoldgit]

sp1814

/// It's a human interest story. ///

You really think so, just someone bothering to phone up a radio station to announce that he is gay?

I would much rather hear a criminal come on the radio to announce the error of his ways and that he has now decided to make a complete new start and tread the path of legality.

[Gromit]

It does seem to be a niche story. But different niches are catered for all the time under the general umbrella of News.

This news idem didn't interest you. Turn the page and look at the pictures of an old aeroplane flying over a reservoir.

[jno]

it's quite an unusual story, for all that. Not many people do their coming-our live on radio. That makes it new, imo. Whether it's important enough to feature in a newspaper (or at least an onine one) is entirely up to the editor. As Gromit says, it's clearly a niche story; but an editor whose publication has lots of gay readerers - or one whose editor whould like to have lots of gay readers - might well think it's their kind of story, as other editors seem to think celebrity cellullite is important.

[jno]

dear me, my typing is falling away fast; apologies for the multiple typos.

[mikey4444]

Thank God I don't read the DM !