Coverage of these attacks is far to much 12:01 - Mar 23 with 2364 views | flashblue | TV and print editors need to be spoken about this in no uncertain terms. Four people died. Tragic for those involved, but not a threat to our country. These events need to be downplayed not hyped up. Media needs to be on our side. Remove the oxygen of publicity. | |
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Coverage of these attacks is far to much on 12:29 - Mar 23 with 1620 views | ThePitBoss | No. Let's show the libtards of the world what's happening. You'd rather it be brushed under the carpet so we can just wait for the next attack? Nah. | | | |
Coverage of these attacks is far to much on 12:37 - Mar 23 with 1591 views | Swansea_Blue | I do think the scramble is undignified. And has lead to a pretty massive c0ckup of publically naming the wrong person. | |
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Coverage of these attacks is far to much on 12:50 - Mar 23 with 1532 views | giant_stow | you don't have to watch it or read it. | |
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Coverage of these attacks is far to much on 12:56 - Mar 23 with 1500 views | WeWereZombies |
Coverage of these attacks is far to much on 12:29 - Mar 23 by ThePitBoss | No. Let's show the libtards of the world what's happening. You'd rather it be brushed under the carpet so we can just wait for the next attack? Nah. |
You almost got an uppie from he...until the fifth word. Flashblue makes a point but the timing and place of the attack demands that it remain at the top of the news agenda for a while. Other stuff is going on though - and the next attack is likely to be elsewhere in the world. Might even already have happened but using your logic we wouldn't hear about it. | |
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Coverage of these attacks is far to much on 13:00 - Mar 23 with 1481 views | Superfrans |
Coverage of these attacks is far to much on 12:29 - Mar 23 by ThePitBoss | No. Let's show the libtards of the world what's happening. You'd rather it be brushed under the carpet so we can just wait for the next attack? Nah. |
Where do you live, out of interest? London? Suffolk? | |
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Coverage of these attacks is far to much on 13:02 - Mar 23 with 1466 views | hype313 | I agree, all this does is feed the terrorists oxygen and we need to starve them of it, not feed it. | |
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Coverage of these attacks is far to much on 13:05 - Mar 23 with 1451 views | dryas | I agree. | | | |
Coverage of these attacks is far to much on 13:59 - Mar 23 with 1375 views | The_Romford_Blue | What do you mean 'not a threat to our country'? | |
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Coverage of these attacks is far to much on 14:01 - Mar 23 with 1369 views | imsureazzure | I agree, absolute tragedy for those involved, but we are controlled by fear. | | | |
Coverage of these attacks is far to much on 14:01 - Mar 23 with 1359 views | dryas |
Coverage of these attacks is far to much on 13:59 - Mar 23 by The_Romford_Blue | What do you mean 'not a threat to our country'? |
How is the country threatened? | | | |
Coverage of these attacks is far to much on 14:10 - Mar 23 with 1317 views | The_Romford_Blue |
Coverage of these attacks is far to much on 14:01 - Mar 23 by dryas | How is the country threatened? |
I'd say a terrorist attack is a national threat. Obviously? | |
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Coverage of these attacks is far to much on 14:16 - Mar 23 with 1300 views | dryas |
Coverage of these attacks is far to much on 14:10 - Mar 23 by The_Romford_Blue | I'd say a terrorist attack is a national threat. Obviously? |
An attack of this scale? A threat to the country? Surely a threat to the country needs to be on a scale potentially involving massive loss of life, a need to change everyday behaviour in response, measurable impact on the economy etc. | | | |
Coverage of these attacks is far to much on 14:21 - Mar 23 with 1288 views | vapour_trail | Phil, Gav, im still getting an ad blocking out the first response to threads on iphone. Now, whilst perfectly placed on this thread, it's generally quite annoying. | |
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Coverage of these attacks is far to much on 14:42 - Mar 23 with 1258 views | Dolly2.0 |
Coverage of these attacks is far to much on 14:01 - Mar 23 by imsureazzure | I agree, absolute tragedy for those involved, but we are controlled by fear. |
We're not controlled by fear. That's why we're all carrying on as normal. | |
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Coverage of these attacks is far to much on 14:53 - Mar 23 with 1223 views | flashblue |
Coverage of these attacks is far to much on 13:59 - Mar 23 by The_Romford_Blue | What do you mean 'not a threat to our country'? |
This is a minor incident in terms of casualties and deaths. Similar to a road traffic accident. Hyping up the gruesome details encourages others to follow suit. In the same way that the media do not publicise suicides they should not hype this up. IRA activity was downplayed and so should this be. | |
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Coverage of these attacks is far to much on 14:54 - Mar 23 with 1208 views | monytowbray |
Coverage of these attacks is far to much on 14:53 - Mar 23 by flashblue | This is a minor incident in terms of casualties and deaths. Similar to a road traffic accident. Hyping up the gruesome details encourages others to follow suit. In the same way that the media do not publicise suicides they should not hype this up. IRA activity was downplayed and so should this be. |
Yeah but this is brown people terrorism which is worse. | |
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Coverage of these attacks is far to much on 14:57 - Mar 23 with 1196 views | monytowbray |
Coverage of these attacks is far to much on 14:10 - Mar 23 by The_Romford_Blue | I'd say a terrorist attack is a national threat. Obviously? |
I'd say calling it a "terrorist attack" is giving an idiot with a car and a knife more credit than he deserves. 9/11 and 7/7 were terrorist attacks; mass loss of life with heavy planning/plotting. Yesterday was a "terrorist act". [Post edited 23 Mar 2017 14:57]
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Coverage of these attacks is far to much on 14:58 - Mar 23 with 1178 views | hype313 |
Coverage of these attacks is far to much on 14:57 - Mar 23 by monytowbray | I'd say calling it a "terrorist attack" is giving an idiot with a car and a knife more credit than he deserves. 9/11 and 7/7 were terrorist attacks; mass loss of life with heavy planning/plotting. Yesterday was a "terrorist act". [Post edited 23 Mar 2017 14:57]
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Can't believe arguments are being had over semantics. Poor. | |
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Coverage of these attacks is far to much on 15:05 - Mar 23 with 1145 views | GlasgowBlue |
Coverage of these attacks is far to much on 14:54 - Mar 23 by monytowbray | Yeah but this is brown people terrorism which is worse. |
What a ridiculous response. | |
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Coverage of these attacks is far to much on 15:06 - Mar 23 with 1130 views | giant_stow |
Coverage of these attacks is far to much on 14:54 - Mar 23 by monytowbray | Yeah but this is brown people terrorism which is worse. |
I think that reveals your own prejudices personally - there are supposedly plenty of white jihadis. Wasn't one of them blown up by a drone in Syria recently? [Post edited 23 Mar 2017 15:07]
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Coverage of these attacks is far to much on 15:37 - Mar 23 with 1047 views | dryas |
Coverage of these attacks is far to much on 14:58 - Mar 23 by hype313 | Can't believe arguments are being had over semantics. Poor. |
It's not semantics. | | | |
Coverage of these attacks is far to much on 15:49 - Mar 23 with 999 views | giant_stow |
Coverage of these attacks is far to much on 15:37 - Mar 23 by dryas | It's not semantics. |
At what point does a terrorist 'act' become a terrorist 'attack'? Is it a matter of deaths or the method of the attack? Afterall, Nice was 'just' a nutter driving something, but caused 80 odd deaths, whereas the tube bombings were a highly planned group attack and caused less death... Should we make such distinctions when the purpose of each appears to be political terrorism? | |
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Coverage of these attacks is far to much on 16:00 - Mar 23 with 962 views | hype313 |
Coverage of these attacks is far to much on 15:37 - Mar 23 by dryas | It's not semantics. |
It is. | |
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Coverage of these attacks is far to much on 16:00 - Mar 23 with 962 views | Parmigiano | A man drives a car at high speed along a footpath/bikepath (if you haven't seen the CCTV footage, the speed he's going at is truly shocking) ploughing through 40 people, then jumps out, repeatedly stabs a police officer and is metres away from murdering members of our democratically elected government. And you don't think it should be headline news? I hope you're just trolling... | | | |
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