Re: The BBC and Jimmy Saville : Tue Nov 13, 2012 3:55 pm
cod'ead wrote: Mintball wrote: One of the side issues (if you will) of all this is the way in which some (note the word there) on the political right are not simply playing with child abuse as a political football, but they way in which they are quite happy to rubbish a victim. Yesterday's piece in the Mail on Sunday, by David Rose and Bob Woffinden was, quite frankly, a disgrace. Fortunately, most of those commenting have seen it for pretty much what it was. And yet the right likes to claim that it's the left that cares nothing for victims of crime. But reading forums on the Telegraph at the time of the Rochdale abuse verdicts, for many (not all, note) the only issue was the ethnicity/religion of the abusers – it wasn't any concern with the abused. It really is quite sickening. PS: and before anyone accuses me of doing another version of this, my response yesterday to Harriet Harman jumping on the Bash-The-Beeb bandwagon was not positive. The mysterious David Rose? A real can of worms is still yet to be opened According to johann Hari's Wikipedia page, he is David Rose. Johann hari being a recently suspended journalist for the Independant. Perhaps one of the resident journalists could shed a bit of light on things? |
cod'ead wrote: Mintball wrote: One of the side issues (if you will) of all this is the way in which some (note the word there) on the political right are not simply playing with child abuse as a political football, but they way in which they are quite happy to rubbish a victim. Yesterday's piece in the Mail on Sunday, by David Rose and Bob Woffinden was, quite frankly, a disgrace. Fortunately, most of those commenting have seen it for pretty much what it was. And yet the right likes to claim that it's the left that cares nothing for victims of crime. But reading forums on the Telegraph at the time of the Rochdale abuse verdicts, for many (not all, note) the only issue was the ethnicity/religion of the abusers – it wasn't any concern with the abused. It really is quite sickening. PS: and before anyone accuses me of doing another version of this, my response yesterday to Harriet Harman jumping on the Bash-The-Beeb bandwagon was not positive. The mysterious David Rose? A real can of worms is still yet to be opened According to johann Hari's Wikipedia page, he is David Rose. Johann hari being a recently suspended journalist for the Independant. Perhaps one of the resident journalists could shed a bit of light on things? |
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