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Mail: a truly despicable article ("nothing 'natural' about Stephen Gately's death")

Mebbe they had to many comments to deal with... I looked after 6pm and they were just putting up comments from just after 3 pm...

There must have been too many for their mods to handle...
 
I'm very surprised that the Fail haven't pulled the article - it clearly isn't doing them any good - is this just Dacre trying to assert his power? (I can just imagine him going into a rant against how the "homosexual lobby and political correct guardianistas are trying to infringe freedom of speech" or the like). Perhaps only a legal threat usually forces them to take down stories?
 
UPDATED: This is a long post. These are all the messages I have (so far, I think!) from group members in response to a message sent about 5pm thanking everyone for joining and updating on the ads being pulled and the articles written.

They are not for me - they are for everyone who helped make this an amazing day for great justice, especially BadgerKitten :)

Thanks for starting the Moir page - and for driving the campaign over the past 24 hours. Hero! These sorts of articles used to be so commonplace - now so rare, thank god. What really inspires me is that the people who joined up are gay, lesbian, straight, young, old.... Moir thinks she's insulting a minority. She doesn't understand that tolerance and respect are the majority views now, and that she herself represents a shrivelling minority. Thanks again :)

Respect for starting us off . . x

I'll keep this brief, since you'll probably get loads of these: thanks for starting the group and all the hard work. Maybe Moir and her ilk will think again before they pull this kind of thing again.

Thanks for the update. I wanted to reply to thank you specifically for what you've done setting up this group. You should be really proud, many congratulations and heartfelt thanks for what you've done. I complained to the PCC adding that homophobic articles in the mainstream press affect everyone, so should be investigated. The only downside is that the current chairman of the PCC is Paul Dacre, who is also the editor of the Mail. Crazy I know, but we can't let a skewed system stop us confronting bigotry. So again, thank you so much, and if there's anything I can do to help, please, let me know.

Thanks for the email and the update. Last I heard she's writing a piece to "explan" herself in tomorrow's newspaper. Now to see what happens :)

I've been passing all the info round on the many sites for Stephen today and twitter. If you need a hand with anything let me know. I have also tried contacting Gerald Kean the families lawyer as I'd like them to take the complaint further. Just seen an advert for ITV 10 o clock news, looks liek the Daily Mail story will be featured.

Excellent! :)

Thank you so much for your efforts. I hope what you've done is the start of a backlash against media homophobia. Let's keep this up. Hugs

Well done Stella give yourself a pat on the back for going that extra mile your a wee star XX

NO....THANK YOU!!!! For starting this, It would prob have gone kinda un noticed (ish) otherwise!

I'm so happy, you have clearly made MASSIVE inpact with your initiative, you're a true inspiration, well done :) Please be my friend, I like you a lot, you're awesome!! haha! Have a great weekend lovely X

I have been sick to the back teeth of the disrespect shown to Stephen Gately and his family, had i not been invited to this group i would have never seen this abhorrent article and the one written for the guardian is quite right, well done for showing up this homophobe who has wrongfully disrespected a lovely and gentle man who has never had an ounce of scandal in his life other than his "coming out" which isnt a scandal in the first place its a very brave and courageous move given his circumstances. as a fan of boyzone when i was younger i applaud you in what you have done. you have my upmost respect x

yippee!! More power to us all!!! thank you facebook!

Well done to you for setting up this group, too. Thank you :)

Thank you for starting the group. I will continue to spread the word. Thank you for up dates

i emailed all the papers and news channels earlier on when you started this and im so happy it was the first story on itv and sky next hopefully the bbc thanks stella xx

Would just like to say well done and thanks for starting this. I also log onto Urban75,that's how i came to know about your facebook group. My boss grew up with Stephen and Shane and work's with them,I have also met them numerous times and you couldnt ask for nicer lads,nothing bigheaded bout them whatsoever. So sad. RIP Steo
Once again thank-you

And well done to you for organizing it! Thank you.

You've probably got an inbox chock full of messages so I'll be brief - thank you for creating the group (Jan Moir). I've never really understood the power and immediacy of online social whatsits until now - but by god, I'm glad of it! It proves how utterly wrong-footed this vile woman and her vile organ are, by printing something that belongs in the Dark Ages.

I'll keep this brief, since you'll probably get loads of these: thanks for starting the group and all the hard work. Maybe Moir and her ilk will think again before they pull this kind of thing again.

Excellent...and thank you for taking the time to set this up.

Regardless of how the poor bloke died, this stupid woman has no right to write such a homophobic and hate filled article.

Good work on setting up the group! x

It just shows you how we can fight back against this crap! Well done for all the work.

great campaign - it's great to see that we can make an impact this way. Now that your campaign has got the attention that it has maybe you can encourage people to view this link http://www.facebook.com/inbox/#/event.php?eid=152586453159&ref=mf the bile that the daily mail regularly spews from it's pages help feed the bigotry that was responsible for an innocent gay man on his way to celebrate his new job. Maybe Gately's death was not in vain and we can use this chance to really force home the point that homophobia is not acceptable. thanks stella

Updated: (I can't just read these then leave them in my inbox :D)

Well done you for setting this group up. thank you.x

Fucking rights man. Peace. Xx

Thanks for updating..I live in Singapore and it even made the papers here. Very best regards and God Bless

awesome job!

Thanks for the reply.What we did is raise awareness that people who have this much biggoted and completley slanderous hatred in them for others should be named and shamed.What this woman called a journalistic report was nothing short of sickening and disgusting.We need to make a stand against these sort of people and this is exactly what we did and we all should be proud of ourselves for managing to achieve what we have achieved.This woman was not a journalist but a slanderous nasty humen being who tried to single handedly single every person like this as being nothing more than a laughing stock to her own misguided and ill informed take on situations today.Well done everyone who backed this campign feel very proud of yourselves.

and a big thank you to you, for showing us how. Feel good, you kick ass!

Thank you for running this group. You've done a really good thing here :) xxxx

Just "thanks" for creating the group x

Just a note to say thanks for organising the Facebook group about Moir's poisonous article. You did a grand job yesterday.
 
invisibleplanet said:
They've deleted the comments!
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I'm surprised it took them so long tbh, especially as the overwhelming majority were against the article - unless it was some sort of tactic to show 'how incredibly right-on about freedom of speech they are' to leave them up - or to distance them (the paper) from the journo (the article)??? :hmm:
 
elevendayempire said:
Has this been posted yet? It's a very nice analysis of the newfound Power Of Teh Internets:

http://853blog.wordpress.com/2009/10/16/the-people-versus-the-daily-mail/
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Now they've realised that shit wont be tolerated and the people have a media to say what they feel about the things that are forced down our necks.. Will there be a backlash about curtailing the freedom of the web. that allows us to say we're not happy with the bollocks that we've had to put up with and are not gonna take it anymore..

I don't think any "body" can shut us up anymore...

It's time for them to listen...
 
5t3IIa I can't wait for Jane Moir's "really what I meant to say was". rebuttal..
 
I have heard rumour that whe is writing a 'what i really meant is' article for the Mail tomorrow. All that will come of that is she will insert her foot further down her scrawny neck.
 
Despite refreshing the page several times I am still seeing the comments, 793 up to 15.58. :hmm:
 
moomoo said:
I get 'What's on TV'. It's got all the soap gossip so my teen tells me... :hmm:
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Aye, teen...riiiiight :D

It has a good soap bit, and proper film write-ups (which even for the fail are usually spot on, if they say it's a stinker it usually is), plus the size of it means that it doesn't get lost amongst my TABs and Chats...

Did i admit something i shouldn't then?

My boy doesn't let me buy it often tho, and it's too big to steal :mad:
 
5t3IIa said:
This is a long post. These are all the messages I have (so far, I think!) from group members in response to a message sent about 5pm thanking everyone for joining and updating on the ads being pulled and the articles written.

They are not for me - they are for everyone who helped make this an amazing day for great justice...<snip> Maybe Gately's death was not in vain and we can use this chance to really force home the point that homophobia is not acceptable. thanks stella
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*cries*

quimcunx said:
What this thread needs is a poll re who is gay or not.
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:D
 
moomoo said:
You and BK and Trashy and Strung Out should all be very proud of yourselves. :cool:

I'm really proud of you all. :cool: :)
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i didn't really do anything apart from help stella fix a link. big props to the others mentioned in your post though.
 
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