John Terry. Stand up and take a bow sir

[Norm]

Firstly, I don't get why any editors would think it's news.

Secondly, if some papers do publish it, I don't get why anyone would buy those papers and fund this sort of hypocrisy. It's not like many in the news media are in a position to criticise others for taking bungs.

 

[amnesia]

Firstly, I don't get why any editors would think it's news.

Because it sells papers...

Look at how many papers had stories about Katie Price just because her orange boyfriend was in Big Brother.

People who buy tabloids are nosy buggers* and prying into other peoples' lives is apparently more interesting than their own...





* this is a generalisation so might be utter tosh

 

[Vapin' Joe]

Firstly, I don't get why any editors would think it's news.

.

Nothing to do with news. It sells papers, and that's all editors care about.

 

[Noodley]

Is he married?

I have not kept up with the story...

 

[Norm]

It sells papers does not make it news and just serves, IMO, to lead me to my second point.

I also wonder why anyone would read / watch media which carries tosh like this and then complain about it.

 

[Danny]

Why are we bothered?

I don't see why details of this guys private life are 'in the public interest'.

Totally agree.

The News of the World only wanted to publish the story to boost its sales.

 

[colly]

Obviously you don't subscribe to Private Eye.

Very perceptive !

 

[shouldbeinbed]

It sells papers does not make it news and just serves, IMO, to lead me to my second point.

I also wonder why anyone would read / watch media which carries tosh like this and then complain about it.

welcome stranger from a bygone era of chivalry to the modern world - you have an awful lot of downward adjustments to make

quite agree but what are the newspapers in the business of doing nowadays.

Would an 8 page dissection of TB's questioning at the Iraq enquiry have sold as many paper as 8 pages of Shagger Terry?

I dont buy papers but I do listen to the radio and TV and unfortuntely they do cut to this story and its a bit inconvenient to be turning it off and on hoping not to have missed any non Terry bits. Also the papers have a longstanding loyal customer base and aren't wholly dominated by Mr Terry's indiscretions.
We all have a perfect right to purchase, watch or listen to this media AND complain when the usual standard we expect is hijacked by a story of salacious interest to a sad (but willing to pay) section of society.

Had I gone out and bought a copy of a paper or switched a news programme on for the first time in my life just for the Terry element and then complained then I'm fair game for adverse comment, but short of going and hiding in a cave for several weeks I'm going to be exposed to it as a neccessary evil of being informed about Iraq and the economy and Haiti and all of the other important bits they wrap round this tat.

 

[colly]

welcome stranger from a bygone era of chivalry to the modern world - you have an awful lot of downward adjustments to make

quite agree but what are the newspapers in the business of doing nowadays.

Would an 8 page dissection of TB's questioning at the Iraq enquiry have sold as many paper as 8 pages of Shagger Terry?

I dont buy papers but I do listen to the radio and TV and unfortuntely they do cut to this story and its a bit inconvenient to be turning it off and on hoping not to have missed any non Terry bits. Also the papers have a longstanding loyal customer base and aren't wholly dominated by Mr Terry's indiscretions.
We all have a perfect right to purchase, watch or listen to this media AND complain when the usual standard we expect is hijacked by a story of salacious interest to a sad (but willing to pay) section of society.

Had I gone out and bought a copy of a paper or switched a news programme on for the first time in my life just for the Terry element and then complained then I'm fair game for adverse comment, but short of going and hiding in a cave for several weeks I'm going to be exposed to it as a neccessary evil of being informed about Iraq and the economy and Haiti and all of the other important bits they wrap round this tat.

You should be in bed mate.

 

[ComedyPilot]

[reads through thread - might reply, might not]

 

[ComedyPilot]

Curious that you don't ever see 'revealing stories' and any 'in the public interest' items about the bed hopping and skullduggery of newspaper barons and editors and so on.

They must all be so upstanding.

I agree

 

[ComedyPilot]

Well it's a ****ing travesty. I suppose i was hoping the majority of people were bought with morals, i thought the minority may cheat on their partner, not the majority!

+1

 

[ComedyPilot]

Because it sells papers...

Look at how many papers had stories about Katie Price just because her orange boyfriend was in Big Brother.

People who buy tabloids are nosy buggers* and prying into other peoples' lives is apparently more interesting than their own...





* this is a generalisation so might be utter tosh

No it's not, it's true, they are.

 

[nosherduke996]

What an example you are to the youth of today.

Now caught cheating agian and this time having an affair with his team mates girlfriend
Was caught years ago cheating on his girlfriend with barely legal school girls
Been accused of taking bungs recently
Mother is a shoplifter
Father is a cocaine dealer


What a horrible scumbag of a man.

Father of the year as well

And if all this isn,t bad enough he bloody plays for Chelsea as well

 

[ComedyPilot]

None of this would have happened if they hadn't removed the subject 'Ignominy' from the national curriculum.