Comments on: Don’t believe the press

By: Dudley

Dudley — Fri, 02 May 2008 10:50:13 +0000

There was a stabbing in Walpole Park, Ealing a few weeks ago. Will you all join my campaign to ban parks?

By: Bruce

Bruce — Thu, 01 May 2008 11:39:53 +0000

Now there is an MCV story: http://www.mcvuk.com/news/30421/Croydon-stabbing-had-nothing-to-do-with-GTA

So we have three seperate eyewitnesses that agree with each other and disagree with what the Mail etc published.

By: Stuart

Stuart — Thu, 01 May 2008 10:11:53 +0000

This most certainly has opened my eyes, thanks!
So would you say the perpetrating press members responsible, are those of the traditional printed press, a la the Telegraph and the Croydon Guardian?
If so I would say its about time such companies were seriously chastised – fined or even shut down for circulating sheer lies.
The other media are no better though – http://www.theregister.co.uk also followed the GTA bandwagon.
We just dont see the whole truth any more do we?

By: The Misinformed

The Misinformed — Thu, 01 May 2008 01:34:06 +0000

So we shouldn’t believe the press? Fair enough, I buy that. There are enough examples of inaccurate reporting that it’s sensible to take these things with a pinch of salt.

But we should believe an unknown contributor in online article’s comments? How are they likely to be any better?

Anyway, people underestimate the difficulty of actually forming a coherent picture on any event of this nature, due in part to the notorious unreliability of eye witness accounts.

I personnally have been at events (football related crowd trouble) where the press reports have differed noticeably from what I saw. When comparing the experience afterwards with others who were there too, but had a slightly different view, I found that even we “eye witnesses” had a different understanding of the facts.

I think too few people manage to report pure fact, when it is so natural to attempt at least some interpretation – maybe without even realising we are doing it.

By: Code601

Code601 — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 16:28:46 +0000

I am bored by this. Everyone knows that GMTV IV is a best game for the win!1

By: DrNerdware

DrNerdware — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 16:27:28 +0000

I like croydons trams. Not violence in games.

By: TT

TT — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:27:06 +0000

I was in the queue when all this happened. The guy that got stabbed diserved it! If the police bothered to interview anyone at the scene they would know this!

The police took over 45minutes to turn up, and only did so when the fool decided to walk around croydon centre with a kitchen blade and half his back slashed open as well as huge slashes at his neck.

Nothing to do with GTA 4 other than he believed that “we should all get a life” he thought he was invincible cause he was drunk – he got shown otherwise!

Lock the prick up and stop treating him like a victim!

By: woodins

woodins — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 09:26:21 +0000

Is this the same area where someone was stabbed a few years ago in the IKEA store when they had a well publicised sale? Why weren’t there calls to ban post-modern swedish furniture in Britain when this happened by the media?

By: Sav

Sav — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 20:50:52 +0000

Not surprising at all – you should check out the crap the media talk about to stir up the so called War on terror – although because there is such a climate of fear people take the bait. Sad but true.

By: Andrew Armstrong

Andrew Armstrong — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 16:28:22 +0000

Hmm, I wondered why I didn’t hear of this, but surprise, I don’t read any of them.

Ridiculously rubbish sensationalist journalism to a T. No fact checking I see, mmm.