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Should the 'Right-Wing' press be banned?
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On AnswerBank, we constantly read insults and criticisms laid firmly at the doors of the 'Right-Wing' press, the Daily Mail especially.
Examples below are taken from a recent thread:
/// Pick up any of the right wing rags at the newsagents ///
/// I will point the finger at papers like the Daily Mail. Their agenda is destructive to the social health of this country. ///
If one is to believe the latter example, then it is more serious than we first thought, and perhaps on this basis alone the paper should be closed down, after all the 'social health of the country' is surely more important than the phone tapping of a few celebrities?
So as to prevent further up-sets on AB, and if we are to believe that anything that is published by these papers is untrue, then perhaps now is the time that all news stories from such sources are banned, and that one should only believe what is written in the 'Left-Wing' publications?
Examples below are taken from a recent thread:
/// Pick up any of the right wing rags at the newsagents ///
/// I will point the finger at papers like the Daily Mail. Their agenda is destructive to the social health of this country. ///
If one is to believe the latter example, then it is more serious than we first thought, and perhaps on this basis alone the paper should be closed down, after all the 'social health of the country' is surely more important than the phone tapping of a few celebrities?
So as to prevent further up-sets on AB, and if we are to believe that anything that is published by these papers is untrue, then perhaps now is the time that all news stories from such sources are banned, and that one should only believe what is written in the 'Left-Wing' publications?
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Oh, it's tempting :-)
But a tongue-in-cheek assertion I assume ...
One reason that "On AnswerBank, we constantly read insults and criticisms laid firmly at the doors of the 'Right-Wing' press, the Daily Mail especially." is the fact that you are regularly posing nuggets from this esteemed publication in the expectation of a llively response. And it's jolly entertaining and I wouldn't want it to stop!
On the other hand it would we great if we could have a couple of more politically neutral downmarket tabloids at least, with the emphasis on actual news or at least information and balanced opinion.
But a tongue-in-cheek assertion I assume ...
One reason that "On AnswerBank, we constantly read insults and criticisms laid firmly at the doors of the 'Right-Wing' press, the Daily Mail especially." is the fact that you are regularly posing nuggets from this esteemed publication in the expectation of a llively response. And it's jolly entertaining and I wouldn't want it to stop!
On the other hand it would we great if we could have a couple of more politically neutral downmarket tabloids at least, with the emphasis on actual news or at least information and balanced opinion.
Whilst I can have reservations about the power of the press to influence and affect beyond what is reasonable, one can not reasonable contemplate banning a free press. It is one of the hallmarks of a dictatorship. It happens when a poor government wishes to control what is said. No the suggestion is dismissed entirely.
If individuals have issues with one paper then they should go buy a different one.
If individuals have issues with one paper then they should go buy a different one.
If papers print lies then they can be sued, and many are.
The public need to be educated to not believe everything they read and apply some examination of what is presented to them. We daily see on here people upset and angered by a story, and when we examine it, it is one sided, omits vital information and is designed not to inform, but to mislead.
If we all just analysed what we were reading, then we would find that much of it is tosh.
The public need to be educated to not believe everything they read and apply some examination of what is presented to them. We daily see on here people upset and angered by a story, and when we examine it, it is one sided, omits vital information and is designed not to inform, but to mislead.
If we all just analysed what we were reading, then we would find that much of it is tosh.
It was me who made the second comment and I'm not asking for them to be banned, but I do feel they should be held, at least partly, morally accountable for what's happening.
I think any lies or any antagonistic statements that can't be backed up should be punished. I'm not just talking about the DM, as a Liverpool fan I obviously have issues with some things the Sun has printed.
They're intent on scaremongering to the extent that it's far more of a threat to the British society than 99.999% of the Muslims / Immigrants / Single parent families it paints to be the threat.
I think any lies or any antagonistic statements that can't be backed up should be punished. I'm not just talking about the DM, as a Liverpool fan I obviously have issues with some things the Sun has printed.
They're intent on scaremongering to the extent that it's far more of a threat to the British society than 99.999% of the Muslims / Immigrants / Single parent families it paints to be the threat.
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ichkeria
/// with the emphasis on actual news or at least information and balanced opinion. ///
We are not talking such publications as HELLO magazine or such here, the newspapers on the whole print only the 'News' ie what is happening in this country and around the world.
Taking the Daily Mail for instance, it is unfair to say they don't give an 'information and balanced opinion'.
In fact they will give much more information along with photographs than most papers, and as regards 'balanced' they also will not shy away from reporting news even if it contravenes their so called 'Right-Wing' agenda.
The only thing they are guilty of and that being, they will not bow down to the 'political correct brigade', and they go on to publish news that some would rather have swept under the carpet, because of it's sensitive content.
/// with the emphasis on actual news or at least information and balanced opinion. ///
We are not talking such publications as HELLO magazine or such here, the newspapers on the whole print only the 'News' ie what is happening in this country and around the world.
Taking the Daily Mail for instance, it is unfair to say they don't give an 'information and balanced opinion'.
In fact they will give much more information along with photographs than most papers, and as regards 'balanced' they also will not shy away from reporting news even if it contravenes their so called 'Right-Wing' agenda.
The only thing they are guilty of and that being, they will not bow down to the 'political correct brigade', and they go on to publish news that some would rather have swept under the carpet, because of it's sensitive content.
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