I walked into the shop the other day and saw the Sun newspaper on the stand. It had a large picture of Col. Gaddafi, shot dead. 'That's for Lockerbie,' gloated the headline. Sensationalist, infantile, puerile news. Death and sex is splashed across this newspaper, with half-truths, blatant lies and writing which tries to incite and promote bigotry, hatred and promote ignorance.
How can these journalists be respected when they write headlines such as, 'Rot in Hell with Hitler'?
I am saddened that The Sun is the biggest selling newspaper in Britain, selling 2.7 million copies a day and the Daily Mail is second, selling just over 2 million copies. Why do so many people want to buy into these vitriolic and utterly foul newspapers? Seeing the Gaddafi headline disgusted me, because it's praising brutality and gratuitous violence. It's not simply about Gaddafi being killed in war, the articles also focused on how the dictator was dragged through the streets like a 'rat', beaten, humiliated and shot. Mob mentality took over and God help anyone caught in the middle of a mob.
Yes, Gaddafi was depraved and delusional. Yes he was an example of how power corrupts absolutely. But, we don't need to hero-worship the rebels killing him. We don't need to splash images of his death everywhere.
Western Civilisation? Gandhi was right when he said it would be a good idea.
*Here's a link to The Sun if you want to read the articles and see the photos. I hate what they do, but they have the right to do it.
I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it.
Voltaire*
Quite right mate.
ReplyDeleteI love that last quote, but I do wonder if papers like the sun and mail should actually have any right to say what they do. It is all garbage and deserves to cease and be obliterated.
Keep writing against the bigots mate!
Yeah, I would prefer if these papers never existed, but then reading stupid things makes us feel better... :)
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