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- Thread starter magnatom
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Aperitif
Meme bar
- Location
- ...I don't have much idea - really.
Ah ok 
sanoffyhighstepson
New Member
- Location
- Glasgow
Is that a word???
Interesting word "underknowledged". Tried putting it into a few search engines and hee-haw came up. Mibbe meant to be a space in there me thinks.
Interesting word "underknowledged". Tried putting it into a few search engines and hee-haw came up. Mibbe meant to be a space in there me thinks.
fossyant
Ride It Like You Stole It!
- Location
- South Manchester
They are only just starting the 'cycle training' again - it's not been carried out in my area for years. - I'm not even sure we'll get any in our area.
It would appear that Sky News picked this up
http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30100-1310723,00.html?f=rss
It has also appeared on the website of Which:
http://www.which.co.uk/reports_and_...y/cycling_youtube_news_article_557_135578.jsp
I'm not happy with this one. It suggests that the police criticised me. They didn't. They only said people should not take the law into their own hands, which I don't! They never actually said that I do take the law into my own hands!
I suppose it's to be expected. The majority of the press is good.
http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30100-1310723,00.html?f=rss
It has also appeared on the website of Which:
http://www.which.co.uk/reports_and_...y/cycling_youtube_news_article_557_135578.jsp
I'm not happy with this one. It suggests that the police criticised me. They didn't. They only said people should not take the law into their own hands, which I don't! They never actually said that I do take the law into my own hands!
I suppose it's to be expected. The majority of the press is good.
sanoffyhighstepson
New Member
- Location
- Glasgow
I note that the Sun reporter was as you said, one of those freelance ones. Thats what happened to me too and he made me out to be a pretty explosive person. I do have a temper when things get to me but it usually takes quite a bit. And anyway, the green eyed monster in me is usually exposed on a football pitch, dont like losing at that!!!
Thats where the vigilante tag has come from. Pretty unfair but thats whats happens with shoot tabloids like that. Only in it to get some sort of story and if they can dramatise it they will.
They even duped me into a photo whilst waitin for ma bus when a was startin work.This guy with Sun I.D said they were doin a piece on violence on buses. All the guy asked me was "Is violence on buses a daily occurence", I told him yes it was and that I hated it but needed the job to suport ma family.*SNAP*. Photo taken. Next thing a know am out of a job after bein tarred as a "furious bus driver".
Total crap. Media coverage is a very sensitive issue to me and I will never forgive them for it. It may have changed my life for the better for the fact that I have time with my family, but financially it has crippled us.
Take care and good luck with them.
Thats where the vigilante tag has come from. Pretty unfair but thats whats happens with shoot tabloids like that. Only in it to get some sort of story and if they can dramatise it they will.
They even duped me into a photo whilst waitin for ma bus when a was startin work.This guy with Sun I.D said they were doin a piece on violence on buses. All the guy asked me was "Is violence on buses a daily occurence", I told him yes it was and that I hated it but needed the job to suport ma family.*SNAP*. Photo taken. Next thing a know am out of a job after bein tarred as a "furious bus driver".
Total crap. Media coverage is a very sensitive issue to me and I will never forgive them for it. It may have changed my life for the better for the fact that I have time with my family, but financially it has crippled us.
Take care and good luck with them.
tdr1nka
Taking the biscuit
- Location
- SE London, Bandit Country
'As well as receiving death threats and foul abuse from angry drivers, he has also been condemned by police.'
Interesting view from Sky News there!
Boo hiss to crap journalism.
Interesting view from Sky News there!
Boo hiss to crap journalism.
sanoffyhighstepson
New Member
- Location
- Glasgow
Wouldnt say condemned as they have. Would say something like "politely educated on the subject".
Well we do,after all, live in a PC world dont we?? Might as well get it right. LOL!!!
Well we do,after all, live in a PC world dont we?? Might as well get it right. LOL!!!
SOHSS, yes it can certainly work both ways. You do wonder how they can sleep at night when they have done something like that to someone.
tdr1nka, I hadn't noticed that sky had said that. They are completely twisting what the police have said. They never personally criticised me. In fact the two police officers who came to chat with me were very supportive.
Ho hum!
tdr1nka, I hadn't noticed that sky had said that. They are completely twisting what the police have said. They never personally criticised me. In fact the two police officers who came to chat with me were very supportive.
Ho hum!
Magnatom, you obviously don't watch Star Trek much - your sig is incorrect.
it's "We are the Borg"
Anyway, congratulations on you appearance on STV, they appear to have done a good job of skewing your appearance to your point of view. They could just as easily have shown a bunch of different videos and made you the bad guy.
Never trust the media, unless you ARE the media ;-)
it's "We are the Borg"
Anyway, congratulations on you appearance on STV, they appear to have done a good job of skewing your appearance to your point of view. They could just as easily have shown a bunch of different videos and made you the bad guy.
Never trust the media, unless you ARE the media ;-)
tdr1nka
Taking the biscuit
- Location
- SE London, Bandit Country
Thought you must have missed the Sky bit when you only mentioned the 'Which(hunt)' article.
All the two articles have done is to print everything else from the original press and then crowbarred in more emotive words to describe the nature of Police comments.
All the two articles have done is to print everything else from the original press and then crowbarred in more emotive words to describe the nature of Police comments.