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robin

You could always change the channel?

scimitar

It is appalling Hutch, and as a father of three daughters I worry about my girls. But rape is rape and I have just been reading about what happened to Milly Dowler which is also sickening. No one is pretending it isn't happening, but at the same time we shouldn't be more concerned about rape if it is carried out by Muslims or Asians. We should be concerned about all rape in equal measure shouldn't we?

Not going to apologise for having a pop at him for giving away soft goals just because he had a good game the other day. And players shouldn't be happy about being reserves.

But these are American voters we are talking about.

Be careful, Batman gets very touchy around the subject of racism. As we speak he is probably looking for stories to post about how migrants are dying or being mistreated. There must be dozens of them in the Daily Mail.

Most of the articles you post are from the Daily Mail.

What colour would that be Jamie?

I don't think you have to be of any political persuasion to see that the media (certainly the press) is mainly right wing.

sober

If news is reported in a factual way I don't think that bias applies. Of course, as soon as someone ventures an opinion then you can say that opinion is open to bias. Columnists are paid to be biased in the most part are they not?

To be fair to the Beeb, other news organisations also reported that including Reuters.

punch

Not at all clever, especially following the other recent sending off. Goodness knows what goes through the guys head but he has let the team and the club down again. You don't want to lose decent players but if he goes in the summer will it be a great loss?

I would agree with this. The press is very biased in the main whereas I think the reporting on TV and the radio is more balanced. The BBC gets stick for being run by a load of lefties but I think it is fairly balanced in its news reporting.

Very true!!

Fair point Whelk!

Advertising is a multi million pound industry because advertising works. There is an element of the population that is swayed by what it reads or what it hears. I don't know what percentage of the population are floating voters but imagine that the figure is fairly high. The Sun put a lot of editorial space into portraying Ed Milliband as a complete idiot. They wouldn't have done that if they were not trying to influence people to vote certain way. In 1992 The Sun produced their famous (or infamous) headline "It Was The Sun Wot Won It." Their election day headline was "If Kinnock wins today will the last person to leave Britain please turn out the lights." Newspapers were originally owned by Press Barons who, by nature, were Tory supporters. The only true Labour newspaper is The Mirror. The Guardian is owned by the Scott Trust and is not aligned to any political party although liberal in nature and does attract a Left readership. The Independent gets its money from the City but doesn't seem to be aligned to any party. Interestingly they took 100k readers from The Guardian upon launch. The Mail, Express, Telegraph, Times and Sun are all firmly Tory although The Times and Sun came out for Blair in 2005. Do people read papers according to their political allegiance? Many clearly do although many people say they read The Sun just for its sport coverage for example. Some buy a particular paper for its crossword. Some buy a paper out of habit. By law of averages there will be an element who read papers that do not reflect their political allegiance. In an ideal world the media would present things in a balanced and fair way but we do not live in an ideal world and most of the media works to an agenda, especially the media owned by Murdoch who displays a unstinting desire to mould the world his way.

abracadabra

There will never be equality in the Press regarding political alignment but no matter which way you vote, it should be a concern that the Left has so little Press support in this country. It is also a nonsense that Murdoch has so much media ownership. He has enormous editorial power and again, no matter which way you vote, the fact that one man holds so much sway should be a worry to us all.

lower

More grief in Syria http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-35521801

rental

Oh, so other games means something else?