News/Current Affairs thread

[SuperBacon]

My favourite thing of a Saturday used to be buying The Guardian and over a period of several days would read it all (food, money, travel, the actual paper, Weekend, sport in that order) mostly on the loo.

Used to do the same with The Observer when they had the Sport monthly magazine.

I don't anymore as I think the editorial bias has shifted to where I don't like it or agree with their stance on most things (employing transphobes like Sean Ingle for one) which is fine, I don't need to agree with anything they say or think, freedom of press innit?

Also the price. The Saturday Guardian is 4 quid! For that price or slightly more I can get a magazine (remember we have a great Magazine thread ?) on a subject I really like.

Do miss flicking through a paper though.

[Carbomb]

Morning Star.

[Merzbow]

Morning Star sadly allows an anti-trans direction from far too many writers, it used to be my paper too.

[Lion_of_the_Midlands]

I've given up on daily print media, because you are reading yesterday's news and the news cycle changes so quickly sometimes the news of 2 hours ago is old hat, let alone 24. I do still read Private Eye. Their more in depth look at stories over time allows for something other than a click bait headline. Their coverage of the ongoing Lucy Letby situation is phenomenal for example. 

[Carbomb]

1 hour ago, Merzbow said:

Morning Star sadly allows an anti-trans direction from far too many writers, it used to be my paper too.

Shit. I hadn't read it recently. 

To be honest, I don't tend to read much in the way of newspapers these days. If I wanted to pay money to have someone stress me out and depress me about the state of the world, I'd just get started early on my taxes.

[Merzbow]

There's sadly a fair amount of Marxists who are pricks about trans people, apparently transgenderism is bourgeois... among the usual lies spread.

[Rossman]

Guardian was my paper of choice, but gave up with them when they gave Morrissey's covers album, 1/5 in the album reviews. The week before he had been on Jimmy Fallon wearing a badge for Britain First or For Britain. Some dodgy far right party. They spent the "review" calling him a far right racist and laying into him. Bead in mind, they weren't given a forward copy to review the album. They went out and got one, to then rip it apart. If they had a problem with Morrissey's political views, do it in the politics section. Hundreds of albums are released every week. They could have given a smaller artist, column inches and exposure with a review.

Their sister paper the Observer also did a review. Also gave it 1/5 and were so brazen, the reviewer said the album was pretty good, but they didn't like Morrissey and thought he was a racist so gave it 1/5. That was online, but been pulled now.

 

 

[Lion_of_the_Midlands]

22 minutes ago, Rossman said:

Their sister paper the Observer also did a review. Also gave it 1/5 and were so brazen, the reviewer said the album was pretty good, but they didn't like Morrissey and thought he was a racist so gave it 1/5. That was online, but been pulled now

The Observer is either in the process of been sold or has been sold to Tortoise Media though. Why podcasts are getting in to print I don't know. Lots of stuff has been pulled from the Observer site. 

[Tim Healys Chutney Spoon]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/swimming/articles/c5yevrrv1kwo

 

Can't see this freakshow being a big hit...or it'll become so popular 'clean sport' will be forgotten about. 

[FLips]

Right wing shitbag Charlie Kirk has been shot at a campus event. I saw a video on Reddit of the shooting and it’s very unlikely he’ll live as it goes right through his neck.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c206zm81z4gt

My fingers remain very firmly uncrossed.

[Devon Malcolm]

 

[CTXRussomark]

Good.  Already seeing a bunch of "no matter what his politics are, he's still a human being" type comments on social media.  Fuck that! He's a cunt and I have zero sympathy for cunts.  

[TheBurningRed]

44 minutes ago, FLips said:

Right wing shitbag Charlie Kirk has been shot at a campus event. I saw a video on Reddit of the shooting and it’s very unlikely he’ll live as it goes right through his neck.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c206zm81z4gt

My fingers remain very firmly uncrossed.

There was also this tweet from him. If only he campaigned the other way. Oh dear. 

[The Gaffer]

5 minutes ago, CTXRussomark said:

Good.  Already seeing a bunch of "no matter what his politics are, he's still a human being" type comments on social media.  Fuck that! He's a cunt and I have zero sympathy for cunts.  

I don't care about Charlie Kirk. 

I do think it will almost certainly lead to a worsening of the situation over there.

For that reason I'm going to stick to a beige, old fashioned "Somebody getting shot is bad" line for now. 

[SaitoRyo]

Worked himself into a shoot(ing).