On Aug 1, 2012 6:55 PM, "WereSpielChequers" werespielchequers@gmail.com wrote:
Fox are part of News International aren't they?
No. They're part of News Corp.
So a sister company to Page3.com is getting on a high horse re porn and
directing people to a homophobic website.
Page 3 is not homophobic and describing it as porn is dubious.
Not as bad as
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/News_International_phone_hacking_scandal#Milly_...
Ah, yes, the "false hope" story. Which turned out to be a lie made up by the Guardian, though they didn't admit it until after dozens of people had lost their jobs.
Or the coundown clock the Sun once had marking the days to a 16 year old
girl's birthday http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/interactive/2011/nov/28/charlotte-church-wit...
Also untrue. There was such a website, but it was not operated by the Sun.
The very title of that Wikipedia article shows just how completely the Guardian and the odious Watson have won. You wouldn't realise that "hacking" (a misnomer anyway) was widespread across Fleet Street, let alone that NI was not the biggest offender (viz. Motorman). But it's the evil Murdoch so it's fine to scapegoat them.
But not impressive.
WSC
On 1 August 2012 18:11, Richard Symonds richard.symonds@wikimedia.org.uk
wrote:
Racist sexist, and homophobic is the least of it on Encyclopedia
Dramatica. There's some very, very dodgy stuff on there. Very odd of Fox to be linking directly to a site that glorifies both rape and child abuse.
I wonder if the Fox News editor clicked 'random article' on that site?
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On 1 August 2012 17:42, Tom Morris tom@tommorris.org wrote:
On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 5:16 PM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com
wrote:
On 1 August 2012 16:29, Thomas Morton morton.thomas@googlemail.com
wrote:
(also: now on FOX -
http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2012/08/01/50-shades-wikipedia-uk-head-banned-af... )
Ah, now we find out the real advantage to having Stevie on board - he has to go through that article pointing out all the mistakes in it, not us! The link to Encyclopedia Dramatica is particularly good...
Yes, always good to show maturity and dedication to the cause of protecting children from harmful material by linking to a website that routinely uses racist, sexist and homophobic descriptions...
It's the old Daily Mail trick: this is awful and terrible and wrong, and here are 14 high-resolution closeups of it!
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