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

[5t3IIa]

i like charlie brooker's comment on this "Jan Moir manages to walk the difficult tightrope between being a bitch and a cunt"

Laugh out loud

 

[Kanda]

We are simply outraged at this article. Like, really really outraged. As ever.

- Urban75, London, 16/10/2009 9:59

From DM Comments...

 

[mrsfran]

Stella, you could put a link to the PCC. The article breaches parts 1, 3, 5 and 12 of the code: http://ow.ly/uL56

 

[5t3IIa]

if you want, make me an admin of the group for two mins, and i can fix the link for you

Done

 

[5t3IIa]

Stella, you could put a link to the PCC. The article breaches parts 1, 3, 5 and 12 of the code: http://ow.ly/uL56

Have updated - thank you

 

[sleaterkinney]

tbh, I wonder how much of the mail's readership would agree with the article, it's par for the course for that rag.

 

[aylee]

surprised if it gets through moderation

Probably, but well said anyway.

 

[William of Walworth]

tbh, I wonder how much of the mail's readership would agree with the article, it's par for the course for that rag.

Are all the negative reactions on the Mail website from non Mail readers ... ?

 

[rollinder]

Peter Lloyd @the Pink Paper's doing a story on it - he wants to know about the facebook group. Ok to pass the link on?.

 

[stethoscope]

Are all the negative reactions on the Mail website from non Mail readers ... ?

Well, for a long time I've presumed a lot of the comments made on Grauniad's CIF aren't representative of their actual readership, but right-wing leaning people using it as a sounding off platform against the G. I think we are seeing the reverse in action more an more on the Fail website - especially as twitter is being used to organise people.

 

[chazegee]

Let's take the bitch down to the disused Blobby Land park rave and ceremonially decapitate her with a roller-coaster at the peak of the night.

 

[5t3IIa]

Peter Lloyd @the Pink Paper's doing a story on it - he wants to know about the facebook group. Ok to pass the link on?.

Of course of course - this is public fucking outrage

 

[Badger Kitten]

http://newsarse.com/2009/10/16/jan-moirs-career-to-die-of-perfectly-natural-causes/

 

[john x]

i like charlie brooker's comment on this "Jan Moir manages to walk the difficult tightrope between being a bitch and a cunt"

So homophobia is bad but misogyny is OK?

john x

 

[tarannau]

Why is that misogyny? Do you honestly think that Brooker is any less insulting or prone to using sexual expletives to males?

 

[stethoscope]

So homophobia is bad but misogyny is OK?

john x

Yeah, that's the thing which really frustrates me with these sort of things, calling out homophobia (rightly) is then replaced by misogyny if the writer happens to be a woman. Both are fail.

 

[chazegee]

So homophobia is bad but misogyny is OK?

john x

 

[kyser_soze]

john x is a very sensitive soul, people. Any insult given to an individual is meticulously picked apart for it's -ismness. He would prefer a world where insults didn't exist.

 

[William of Walworth]

Well, for a long time I've presumed a lot of the comments made on Grauniad's CIF aren't representative of their actual readership, but right-wing leaning people using it as a sounding off platform against the G. I think we are seeing the reverse in action more an more on the Fail website - especially as twitter is being used to organise people.

I've had very similar thoughts myself as it goes!

 

[strung out]

Why is that misogyny? Do you honestly think that Brooker is any less insulting or prone to using sexual expletives to males?

i'm guessing he's using the classic 'using the word cunt is misogynistic' argument

 

[prunus]

So homophobia is bad but misogyny is OK?

john x

Yeah, that's the thing which really frustrates me with these sort of things, calling out homophobia (rightly) is then replaced by misogyny if the writer happens to be a woman. Both are fail.

I think you're overlabelling simple abuse.

 

[kyser_soze]

And insulting a woman by calling her a bitch, presumably.

 

[5t3IIa]

361 members

Just had a message from someone saying he was 'openly gay' but didn't get what was so offensive *gulp*

 

[5t3IIa]

366!

 

[5t3IIa]

PLEASE TEST THIS - pdf of article http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/113286/W...bout Stephen Gately's death | Mail Online.pdf

Someone kindly sent it to me but I need to update my reader

 

[Weller]

just in case anyone has not done it theres a joined up jpg of the article here in case they remove it.. just right click it and download it , or link to it I will leave it there for now

http://www.catcha.co.uk/maila.jpg

it is full size

 

[temper_tantrum]

Media Guardian:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/greenslade/2009/oct/16/dailymail-stephen-gately

 

[subversplat]

That pdf seems to be the story in the paper, yeah.

 

[5t3IIa]

just in case anyone has not done it theres a joined up jpg of the article here in case they remove it.. just right click it and download it , or link to it I will leave it there for now

http://www.catcha.co.uk/maila.jpg

it is full size

That's perfect, thanks very much. Have updated

 

[rollinder]

PLEASE TEST THIS - pdf of article http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/113286/W...bout Stephen Gately's death | Mail Online.pdf

Someone kindly sent it to me but I need to update my reader

just downloaded it and tried to open it but got a 'not a pdf or corrupt' message in Foxit reader. Could just be my computer being shit though.