What’s More Hateful: Labour Outrage Or Tabloid Lies?
THE News of The World is dead and the worthy Liberal Left is going after the Sun. The hypocrisy is rank. Phones were tapped and privacy invaded – and all under the auspices of the Labour Government that curtailed our freedoms. Who trained the snoops? Who harvests your data? The Murdoch empire does not act alone.
Billy Bragg sings a song telling the free thinking not to buy the Sun because it is in the gutter and wrongly claimed that Liverpool football fans urinated on the dead at Hillsborough.
The Sun lates apologised for yelling:
“Some fans picked pockets of victims”
“Some fans urinated on the brave cops”
“Some fans beat up PC giving kiss of life”.
In Bragg’s world the Mirror gets nothing. The Labour Party supporting Mirror is not mentioned in the song.
This is the Mirror that:
Featured fake photos of British soldiers abusing prisoners in Iraq. In one snapshot a soldier was seen urinating on a hooded man.
At the time of writing, the Mirror is being held to account for its stories on Chris Jefferies, an innocent man monstered by the media.
On Monday, 22 January, 1934 the Mirror commanded its readers:
“Give the Blackshirts a helping hand.”
Look beyond the Daily Mail’s oft-cited headline ” HURRAH FOR THE BLACKSHIRTS”, and enjoy your trusty Mirror – a story retold by Chris Horrie in Tabloid Nation: From the birth of the Mirror to the death of the tabloid newspaper. His history of the Sun - Stick It Up Your Punter! The Rise and Fall of the Sun – is excellent.
Said the Mirror:
As a purely British organisation, the Blackshirts will respect those principles of tolerance which are traditional in British politics.
Hurrah!
“The notion that a permanent reign of terror exists there (Germany) has been evolved entirely from their own morbid imaginations, fed by sensational propaganda from opponents of the party now in power.”
Hurrah!
As Bragg knows, you pick a story, develop and angle and sell it…
July 11th, 2011 at 4:11 pm
The Guardian has done it! It’s got the lot!
NOTW is gone. It’s now nailed The Sun and The Times.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/jul/11/phone-hacking-news-international-gordon-brown
July 11th, 2011 at 9:31 am
(I meant Peter Hitchens of course)
July 11th, 2011 at 9:30 am
Labour have been in bed with the murdochs as much as anyone.
I don’t think they have the stomach to take on the tabloids (including the Sun) so this article is pure BS. Sorry but it reads like a silly, amateurish bit of Peter Hitches squealing – only far more infantile.
The Guardian, however, does have the stomach for it and it has restored its credibility in my opinion after long years of eye-rolling hand-wringing and no action. I might even start buying it again. The Telegraph too deserves credit for following the story and having an independent opinion free from the tentacles of Tory HQ.
The Sun will probably survive but it will be discredited and damaged. Some of its journalists and probably editors will end up behind bars. Same goes for the Daily Mail. And if the writer of this article thinks the Mirror is safe from the Graun’s bullets, s/he is terribly mistaken.
(The Sun is also up for contempt for the Jefferies story by the way).
And I for one, will be cheering.
July 11th, 2011 at 9:25 am
I hate politics…. all the point scoring, the booing and jeering at each other.
This happened because politicians of all parties wanted to be friends of Murdoch and they all wanted him to support them.
we made the monsters of Murdoch, Desmond (who’s been very quiet so far?) and Maxwell. Has the Mirror forgotten him???
July 11th, 2011 at 8:48 am
Labour outraged? did they forget something? We all know they are hopeless with numbers, but who was in power when phone hacking started?