British woman has her holiday to Benidorm ruined "because her hotel had 'too many Spanish people"

[editor]

it's a shit way to treat customers of any age

Of course, but elderly people are far less likely to have booked online or get email updates so they only found out by popping into the shop.

 

[Ralph Llama]

doesn't answer the question 'what was the point of this not being initially a mirror story?'

Because it is obviously quite a genuine story! The Mirror is a right wing rag. Ciaran Duggan who wrote the original story is a little more respectable.

 

[cupid_stunt]

The Mirror is a right wing rag.

Since when?

 

[JimW]

Think Chomsky called it that in his seminal essay, "Taking tabloid quotes at face value"

 

[Ralph Llama]

Give me one good reason why this story would be fabricated ... for what political ends would 2 newspapers collude in this conspiracy?

 

[killer b]

I don't think it's fabricated. She probably is a bit racist. She probably shouldn't be savaged in the press (and online) for it though.

 

[isvicthere?]

When she said the Spanish people were 'rude', l imagine that means 'didn't speak English'.

 

[danny la rouge]

Give me one good reason why this story would be fabricated ... for what political ends would 2 newspapers collude in this conspiracy?

Maybe they're both subject to five filters.

 

[Ralph Llama]

Which filters apply to this story ?

or in other words

Give me one good reason why this story would be fabricated ... for what political ends would 2 newspapers collude in this conspiracy?

 

[littlebabyjesus]

Give me one good reason why this story would be fabricated ... for what political ends would 2 newspapers collude in this conspiracy?

To fill space while the political (bell) ends are on holiday.

 

[killer b]

Ralph, who are you talking to? No-one is saying it's fabricated.

 

[Ralph Llama]

To fill space while the political (bell) ends are on holiday.

There is plenty of genuine fill out there , no doubt that is why the Mirror picked it up , but it would be a high risk strategy to simply make up your fill .

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

This is a story about a woman who was mis-sold a holiday.

 

[Ralph Llama]

with racist undertones

 

[danny la rouge]

Which filters apply to this story ?

or in other words

Give me one good reason why this story would be fabricated ... for what political ends would 2 newspapers collude in this conspiracy

Why would two newspapers point and laugh at an old woman? Because humiliating members of the public is something the media never does.

 

[JimW]

The substance of her complaint is the mis-selling and the date, if they wrote it up like that it's more of a dull consumer rights story than the comic spin you can put on stuff she said that implies Spanish people shouldn't be in Spain. Even that's clearly been spun to sound worse.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

with racist undertones

Mildly xenophobic morphed in to racist by the paper to make it a story.

 

[skyscraper101]

Sounds like a storyline from 'Benidorm' itself

"Frig off" etc.

 

[Ralph Llama]

Yes. Your right .... but the quotes in the original story do back this up... I can only agree that exposing racist pensioners(not in positions of power or influence) is a little out of order.

 

[JimW]

Yes. Your right .... but the quotes in the original story do back this up... I can only agree that exposing racist pensioners(not in positions of power or influence) is a little out of order.

Even then can imagine the conversation and these being lifted in a way that makes them worse, every chance she was complaining more about not getting what she expected and was led into all the "rude Spanish" stuff. Might have just volunteered it though, of course.

 

[Ralph Llama]

Totally. She probably is not very media savvy as in I doubt she was genuinely calling for the expulsion of Spanish from Spain and has more than likely formed a minor prejudice due to her mistreatment there.

 

[Idris2002]

Now we're in the Common Market the blighters ought to speak English.

Oh.

 

[cupid_stunt]

Now we're in the Common Market the blighters ought to speak English.

Oh.

Common Market?

Blimey, you are showing your age!

 

[danny la rouge]

Yeah. They changed it to EEC.

 

[DotCommunist]

bring back the hanseatic league

 

[danny la rouge]

bring back the hanseatic league

Oh, I had hanseatitis once. It was horrible.

 

[cupid_stunt]

Yeah. They changed it to EEC.

Wasn't it always officially the EEC*, but just referred to as the 'common market'?

* Before it became the European Union (EU) in the early 90s.

 

[A380]

Apparently she wasn't too worried about the rude bloke, she just had a few words, but then he drew a picture of her wearing a revealing outfit outside the cathedral.

 

[isvicthere?]

Wasn't it always officially the EEC*, but just referred to as the 'common market'?

* Before it became the European Union (EU) in the early 90s.

I lived in Germany in 1980-1 and they thought it was funny l said Economic. They already called it the EG (Europäische Gemeinschaft = EU).

 

[butchersapron]

That's not quite right is it?