Badger Kitten
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That, ladies and gentleman, is the sound of a reverse ferret
Signed off by Dacre, who is on the run.
Signed off by Dacre, who is on the run.
I'm a lecturer in English Language who's been tracking the Daily Mail and its homophobia for several years. In a book I published called Public Discourses of Gay Men I looked at over a thousand articles about homosexuality that the Mail has published and found some common themes. These are the 10 "rules" of writing about homosexuality that you have to abide by if you write for the Daily Mail.
1) Gay relationships don't last
2) Gay is not a proper identity, it's just filthy sex
3) Being gay will lead to crime and violence
4) Being gay is something to be ashamed about
5) Beware - many gay people hide their gayness for some reason - making them liars and morally dubious
6) Despite (5) many gay people are "obvious" and/or "shameless" so they won't shut up about being gay - and we don't want to know!
7) Gay people are promiscuous
8) Gay people are everywhere - they are many and they are strong
9) They want to infect your children with their ways
10) They are strident, loud and militant. They will never stop demanding "rights" they don't deserve.
Moir's article follows the Daily Mail's "rules" on how to write about homosexuality, almost to the letter. Remember, it's not just Moir, it's the whole newspaper. This has been going on for years and they won't stop until they are stopped.
Dacre's a typical bully,dishes it out, unable to take it though.Did you see this guy's post on the FB group?
Has Dacre gone to ground then?
Did you see this guy's post on the FB group?
Has Dacre gone to ground then?
That, ladies and gentleman, is the sound of a reverse ferret
Signed off by Dacre, who is on the run.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/a...ay-killed-man-week--wasnt-Stephen-Gately.html
Bloody hell. First Suzanne Moore implicitly goes there in the Mail on Sunday, then Street-Porter breaks ranks and explicitly disses Moir's column.
Moir officially on the ropes.
read the rest
This has fucking worked, line in sand, things have started to change.
About bloody time.
Well done everyone.
Discrimination
i) The press must avoid prejudicial or pejorative reference to an individual's race, colour, religion, gender, sexual orientation or to any physical or mental illness or disability.
ii) Details of an individual's race, colour, religion, sexual orientation, physical or mental illness or disability must be avoided unless genuinely relevant to the story.
Trashy - the PCC isn't flying. Everyone is getting 'you are a third party, nothing we can do' form reply.
Perhaps change the complaint copy to something to send the advertisers instead?
Something to do today, like. Keep it moving.
Pete from Wrexham said:I have to agree with Jan. His so called marriage seemed to allow for taking home waifs and strays for drug taking and other unseemely acts. When will the gay community realise that marriage is a unity of two people in the eyes of God. They want the right to marriage but do not take it seriously. Jan should not have to apologise. This mans actions were dubious. Smoking weed, threesomes with strangers. It is not the act of a normal individual and his death is still unexplained.
- pete, wrexham, 19/10/2009 07:15
Reverse ferret from Mail columnist Janet street Porter
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/a...ay-killed-man-week--wasnt-Stephen-Gately.html
On the discrimination against gay people, part 12 of the code, surely that doesn't have to be the Gately mourners?
Oh, just saw trashy's post.
I was thinking that DAYS ago though...
Interesting that the PCC gets some attention now, I was reading about the documentary starsuckers on the Guardian last week, and there is a secretly recorded journalist talking about how the PCC is run by newspaper editors and they just give you a slap on the wrist. These comments are on the video on the guardian website.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/oct/15/starsuckers-celebrity-cosmetic-surgery-hoax
I know. I think I fucked up - someone posted that draft letter which I thought sounded good but it doesn't mention part 12. I'm going to ask the fb group if anyone has drafted their own letter which mentioned part 12 and didn't get the stock response. Is there some way I can email the group??
I uploaded it to here instead same image same quality but this also only allows 300 meg an hour (thats about 600 views) so may be ok to use my photobucket link instead , I think its good if the original headline is still linked but the catcha.co.uk one aint gonna work at moment unless I can sort it with them , can someone change it to...
http://img266.imageshack.us/img266/1463/dmail.jpg
or maybe someone else could host it for a while - to keep it active - cheers
And of course, today's Mail's own take on the matter , with reader comments
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1221360/Stephen-Gately-debate-dominates-internet.html
Can urb host it? Or is that a 'bit close to home' praps?
If needed, I've got unlimited disc space and bandwidth available to host the JPEG of the article for linking from facebook etc.
Just PM if required.