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Mcalpine-Scandal-Media-Critique

26/04/2025 17:49

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Mcalpine-Scandal-Media-Critique

Created: 26/04/2025 17:49
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I truly don't understand the Lord McAlpine scandal. Sure, it was a journalistic gaffe but it was a genuine mistake, for which they have apologised. The tabloids - which are consumed by a far larger and, excuse my snobbery, FAR stupider and less discerning public - knowingly lie and distort the truth all day every day for profit. Since we're on the subject, at what point did a rich Tory lord who was one of Thatcher's advisors become a worthy victim? Aren't there more deserving people out there we could be outraged on behalf of? You know - ones who suffered genuine injustice and suffering for decades rather than suffered vague implications for a day and then received the swiftest and most public apology of the year? Have The Sun even satisfactorily apologised for their handling of the Hillsborough disaster yet? Hmm. The true answer is that we need an organisation of such integrity to stop, well, evil