"ban this sick filth"

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2010193/Teachers-strike-Sophie-Howard-13-killed-falling-branch-school-closed.html

is it just me or is this attempt by the right wing, hysterical, fear mongering, reactionary news paper the daily mail to blame the death of a young girl in a freak accident on a public sector strike, simply based on the fact she would (probably?) have been in school and not the park where it happened had there been no strike one of the most cringe worthy and disgusting pieces of journalism you have ever seen.
 
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That is terrible journalistic spin - they should be ashamed, but sadly they won't be. Luckily the saner comments at the bottom seem to echo this aspect
 
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Yeah. Its nobody's fault. Just an accident. If it wasnt her maybe someone else might have been sitting there at the time. To blame it on the strikers is just sad.
 
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Last year a Police Officer went jogging in the park on his day off, a tree branch fell and crushed his skull.
If he was on duty instead of relaxing on his day off.. this wouldnt have happened.

or at least thats how the DM wouldve spinned it.
 
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Those immigrant Islamic homosexuals are going to be in for rough ride then...
 
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Immigants, I knew it was the immigants even when it was the teachers strike.
 
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Has this article been edited? It looks fairly innocuous now with only a passing mention about the teachers strike, yet the header indicates it's a major point of the story?
 
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The comments on the article suggest that the article was, at one point, heavily strike oriented. I wouldn't be surprised if the DM edited the article after realising how bad the backlash was. If you look at the comments with high and low ratings, you'll see that even DM readers are incredulous at the notion that the strike was to blame.
 
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A quick google around the issue shows that the Daily Mail is being lambasted all over the web.

This article shows the original headline.
 
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and another headline - this one drawing an even more direct link between the death and the industrial action.

They've clearly been trying to wind it back.

Notice the byline. No one wants to take credit for it - unsurprisingly.
 
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The article now seems to point more toward some workers doing a poor job maintaining the trees than the teachers.


It looks like it was just a tragic accident, one of those 'when your number is up, it's up' situations. 'Sick filth' is people who try to make political gains on things like this.
 
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If anything it just makes the paper being one of the UKs best selling more depressing but as holy pointed out the best rated comments are all complaining about the DM blaming it on strike action too. Doesn't change the fact they're all morons every other day but still.
 
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Yeah, when my views match up with the readership of the Daily Heil, you know the issue is beyond dispute.
 
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After all these years, the newspaper that supported Hitler still finds new depths to plumb.

On a related note, we learn today that the News of the World hacked Milly Dowler's mobile phone, a fact that her family are naturally disgusted about.

Is there really a 'freedom of speech' case for allowing these revolting rags to stay in business? Surely we have enough decent papers to be able to ban the likes of the mail and the NOTW without actually affecting our freedom of speech as a nation? Whose freedom of speech do they serve anyway?
 
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You can't start banning newspapers. You just can't. It's the slipperiest slope of them all.
 
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I dont advocate banning them, I would like some sort of media laws about providing news that is unbiased and news that has motives behind it, perhaps a government funded but independent review of all media out lets and then force the ones that dont meet the standard to bare some kind of label saying so, like the parental advisory label you get on cd's. id also like to see a newspaper funded by taxpayers money that is more about news than opinions, like we have for the license fee for the tv, although that isnt perfect either.
 
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yeah, the way to stop them is better education about how they work, the control that news international has on the worlds media is shocking but freedom of the press is also important.
 
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