UK riots

[wub]

I challenge anybody to stay impartial in situations like this.

Challenge accepted, a NEWS REPORTERS JOB = to stay impartial, if you KNOW you can't be impartial you shouldn't be reporting the subject imho

Utter bollocks IMO. Objective journalism is one of the reasons world politics/economics are so fucked up right now. "I just covered the story, I gave a balanced view" is the argument of a pussy. Most journalists need to grow a fucking pair and actually put an opinion across as opposed to just regurgitating identikit press releases and facts. Anyone c.unt can report the facts. I want someone give me their own opinion on it. If I don't like it, I'll look elsewhere for an opinion that I do like. But I want the choice.

[Mr Hyde]

3 dead from a car going into a crowd of people protecting their area in Brimingham, the Dad just been on saying how he tried to give CPR to his son, pretty heartbreaking stuff.

[badger]

As far as I can tell, kids might have been listening to rap music, which would obviously explain everything.

lol i read that in a comments section somewhere or other. apparently it's all down to listening to rap music and aspiring to get girls and money

I challenge anybody to stay impartial in situations like this.

Challenge accepted, a NEWS REPORTERS JOB = to stay impartial, if you KNOW you can't be impartial you shouldn't be reporting the subject imho

This. Its her JOB.

as a BBC reporter anyway. these days the BBC is getting into pretty dodgy territory imo

3 dead from a car going into a crowd of people protecting their area in Brimingham, the Dad just been on saying how he tried to give CPR to his son, pretty heartbreaking stuff.

fuck me

deliberately driven into them?

[magma]

The demographic spread of people appearing in court because of this is... surprising.

31 year old female teacher? Graphic designer? WTF?!

People become idiots following the crowd and think that nothing will happen to them, gonna be a lot of people who would never usually rob are gonna be spending years in prison. Up to 10 years for commercial burglary!!

Nail 'em. Just taking advantage of a vulnerable city... it's even worse that it's their own fucking city.

Picked up from my weed guy last night and he said a few of his regular student buyers had been round that afternoon.. bunch of bored middle-class kids ghettoing up to go and find some trouble and "get involved" (I fucking HATE that phrase)... with any luck they got strip-mugged and had to call their Mum for a lift home.

That hit and run sounded horrible. I saw that happen once at a taxi rank in Bristol. Fucking horrible.

[clifford_-]

I challenge anybody to stay impartial in situations like this.

Challenge accepted, a NEWS REPORTERS JOB = to stay impartial, if you KNOW you can't be impartial you shouldn't be reporting the subject imho

Utter bollocks IMO. Objective journalism is one of the reasons world politics/economics are so fucked up right now. "I just covered the story, I gave a balanced view" is the argument of a pussy. Most journalists need to grow a fucking pair and actually put an opinion across as opposed to just regurgitating identikit press releases and facts. Anyone c.unt can report the facts. I want someone give me their own opinion on it. If I don't like it, I'll look elsewhere for an opinion that I do like. But I want the choice.

I like to get the facts, then make my own opinion.
If i want to hear anyone elses, ill ask them.

[noam]

I challenge anybody to stay impartial in situations like this.

Challenge accepted, a NEWS REPORTERS JOB = to stay impartial, if you KNOW you can't be impartial you shouldn't be reporting the subject imho

Utter bollocks IMO. Objective journalism is one of the reasons world politics/economics are so fucked up right now. "I just covered the story, I gave a balanced view" is the argument of a pussy. Most journalists need to grow a fucking pair and actually put an opinion across as opposed to just regurgitating identikit press releases and facts. Anyone c.unt can report the facts. I want someone give me their own opinion on it. If I don't like it, I'll look elsewhere for an opinion that I do like. But I want the choice.

what are you on about???

you're basically saying if you don't agree with a reporters opinion, you'll look for an opinion you do like regardless of whether its closer to the truth or not

the job of a news reporter is to report facts about situations around the world

the quality of news report is judged by the legitimacy, and quality of the both the factual content and the way it is expressed

its a reporters job to be impartial when it comes to factual content in their articles, they can't just make them up to satisfy an agenda - thats madness!

interpretation of the facts is a different matter, but a GOOD reader should almost entirely disregard those elements of a report, those elements which turn a report into a story, cross reference the facts with all other stories on the same subject and then form THEIR OWN opinion of the 'story'

not just shop around until they find something which fits their world view irrespective of its truth value

[JBoy]

The demographic spread of people appearing in court because of this is... surprising.

31 year old female teacher? Graphic designer? WTF?!

People become idiots following the crowd and think that nothing will happen to them, gonna be a lot of people who would never usually rob are gonna be spending years in prison. Up to 10 years for commercial burglary!!

Nail 'em. Just taking advantage of a vulnerable city... it's even worse that it's their own fucking city.

Picked up from my weed guy last night and he said a few of his regular student buyers had been round that afternoon.. bunch of bored middle-class kids ghettoing up to go and find some trouble and "get involved" (I fucking HATE that phrase)... with any luck they got strip-mugged and had to call their Mum for a lift home.

That hit and run sounded horrible. I saw that happen once at a taxi rank in Bristol. Fucking horrible.

The youth of today ehhhh.........

[Mr Hyde]

3 dead from a car going into a crowd of people protecting their area in Brimingham, the Dad just been on saying how he tried to give CPR to his son, pretty heartbreaking stuff.

fuck me

deliberately driven into them?

not sure, but it was hit and run

[Johoosh]

3 dead from a car going into a crowd of people protecting their area in Brimingham, the Dad just been on saying how he tried to give CPR to his son, pretty heartbreaking stuff.

fuck me

deliberately driven into them?

not sure, but it was hit and run

They interviewed some bloke outside the hospital and he said that the car came onto the curb to hit them.

Could be cobblers though

[wub]

you're basically saying if you don't agree with a reporters opinion, you'll look for an opinion you do like regardless of whether its closer to the truth or not

its a reporters job to be impartial when it comes to factual content in their articles, they can't just make them up to satisfy an agenda - thats madness!

Nowhere did I advocate making up factual content. I am not suggesting that reporters lie.

interpretation of the facts is a different matter, but a GOOD reader should almost entirely disregard those elements of a report, those elements which turn a report into a story, cross reference the facts with all other stories on the same subject and then form THEIR OWN opinion of the 'story'

I'm not saying that I'm not forming my own opinion. I just don't subscribe to the view of pure objectivity. It is possible to still report the story (and by this I mean the facts) whilst at the same time putting across your own opinion on it.

[antipode]

I challenge anybody to stay impartial in situations like this.

Challenge accepted, a NEWS REPORTERS JOB = to stay impartial, if you KNOW you can't be impartial you shouldn't be reporting the subject imho

easy to forget that in this mass media, foxnews day and age.

[magma]

Christ, the kid that got robbed as he was being helped up was a Malaysian student who'd only been in the country four weeks.

"Welcome to Britain, kid, have a broken jaw"

[faust.dtc]

I heard late last night that they had arrested a 21 year old man in connection with the Reeves corner fire. Has anyone seen any solid information on this?

[Crosby]

[garethom]

3 dead from a car going into a crowd of people protecting their area in Brimingham, the Dad just been on saying how he tried to give CPR to his son, pretty heartbreaking stuff.

fuck me

deliberately driven into them?

not sure, but it was hit and run

They interviewed some bloke outside the hospital and he said that the car came onto the curb to hit them.

Could be cobblers though

Quite a lot of witnesses saying they were hit deliberately. Shit went off in Birmingham last night, especially in Aston, police got shot at, a scrapyard was set on fire this morning too, only just gone out I think. Worrying thing about that area of Birmingham is the gang activity. If just one wrong person got shot, who knows what that could kick off.

[doobyus]

Boris needs to step down and let that kid run tings. He's got a brain and a heart which is more than Boris...

[faust.dtc]

The start of the fire on Reeve Corner, Croydon...

[LA_Boxers]

I heard late last night that they had arrested a 21 year old man in connection with the Reeves corner fire. Has anyone seen any solid information on this?

Heard that one on BBC News this morning.

[magma]

I heard late last night that they had arrested a 21 year old man in connection with the Reeves corner fire. Has anyone seen any solid information on this?

BBC reported it on their live feed:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14449675

09:13, no more information though.

[doobyus]

With regards to the media, I do believe Charlie Brooker's thoughts on US spree killers could equally apply to the riots. Seeing police being massively ineffective towards looting is hardly going to discourage similar outbreaks elsewhere.