tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-113088522007-09-04T17:38:46.916+01:00A Real Hull residenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01910967199150366155noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11308852.post-7186750125877018312007-09-04T17:12:00.000+01:002007-09-04T17:38:46.989+01:00<span style="font-size:100%;">The media have paid a lot of attention to the </span><span style="font-size:100%;">Jean Charles de Menezes case recently. We seen them repeat claims that </span><span style="font-size:100%;"><a href="http://www.met.police.uk/">Metropolitan Police</a> lied and mislead the public.<br /><br /></span><span style="font-size:100%;"></span><span style="font-size:100%;">They</span><span style="font-size:100%;">conveniently</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> ignore the fact </span><span style="font-size:100%;"><i>the <b>media</b> was full of misinformation</i> it self. The claims commonly attributed to the Met originally came from the media themselves not the Met. <br /><br /></span><span style="font-size:100%;">These eye witness accounts were reported by the BBC not the met.<br /><a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4706913.stm" title="bbc.co.uk"></a></span><ul><li><span style="font-size:100%;"><a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4706913.stm" title="bbc.co.uk"><i>"I saw an Asian guy. He ran on to the train, he was hotly pursued by three plain clothes officers, one of them was wielding a black handgun."</i> </a> [bbc.co.uk] </span></li><li><span style="font-size:100%;"><a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4703965.stm" title="bbc.co.uk">he just sprinted away as soon as the doors opened.</a> [bbc.co.uk]<br /></span></li><li><span style="font-size:100%;">and <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4706913.stm" title="bbc.co.uk"> <i>"He [the suspect] had a baseball cap on and quite a sort of thickish coat - it was a coat you'd wear in winter, sort of like a padded jacket."</i> </a> [bbc.co.uk] </span></li></ul><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">Those witness statements are now <i>heavily disputed</i> by the very people that sensationalised them in the first place, the media! The very same media that is currently trying to stir up a frenzy of recrimination against the Met.<br /><br /></span>Their i<span style="font-size:100%;">ntent seems to be to </span><span style="font-size:100%;">incite hatred of the Police, or just maybe they are trying to </span><span style="font-size:100%;">cover up their own fabrications and gross distorts of the truth.<br /></span>A Real Hull residenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01910967199150366155noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11308852.post-1138537421710494762006-01-29T11:55:00.000Z2006-01-29T12:28:00.846ZTraditionally journalists are the arbiters of what can be said and what cannot said. Journalists had more power to censor opponents than politicians. Journalists invented the term 'Politically Correct'. Journalists could dismiss those that disagree as green inked cranks. Journalists steadily distanced themselves from opposing views and came to believe they are omnipotent.<br /><br />Journalists are human they not infallible, they make human mistakes, they suffer from human fallibility. In the past there there was no way to effectively challenge what journalists reported, what journalists believed.<br /><br />The Internet and Blogs in particular have changed that situation, it has given the ordinary people a voice, a voice that can be heard from one side of the world to the other.<br /><br />Welcome to the Information age.A Real Hull residenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01910967199150366155noreply@blogger.com