Daily Star Gets Nailed for Made-Up GTA Story
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*puts hand up* I buy the sun most days, but mostly for the columnists, the boobs do help but I dont think the sun as trasy as it is has ever pulled something as tasteless and direspectful as this, although I could be wrong anyone know of the pulling any similar shit?luvd1 said:
I would love it so much if this was 4chan's work...
Seriously though, logic must be void at the Daily Star, surely if you were to publish a story you'd have something more to back it up than a picture.
Seriously though, logic must be void at the Daily Star, surely if you were to publish a story you'd have something more to back it up than a picture.
Sadly, I imagine their lawyers could call that image a parody and stop Rockstar hauling them over the coals, however I'd love Rockstar to take a few hundred thousand from the Star for such shockingly poor attempts at ...heh...journalism.
Honestly, there should be something in place to stop people just printing outright lies as fact. It's bad enough when something is printed with enough bias to twist the original meaning.
Reminds me of the thing about how Diversity won out over Susan Boyle in the Britain's Got Talent Final, most sensible papers would have given it a quarter of a page in the showbiz section, then the Sun would have gone with 'SuBo loses to Diversity' and then the Daily Mail would have led with 'Gang of black youths beat pensioner, millions of witnesses do nothing'.
I still maintain that the print media see videogames as a rival, who's going to buy a paper full of shit when you can buy an itunes game for a dollar or a sale game on Steam for $2, therefore they have to use fearmongering to turn them into an evil destroyer of children's minds.
Honestly, there should be something in place to stop people just printing outright lies as fact. It's bad enough when something is printed with enough bias to twist the original meaning.
Reminds me of the thing about how Diversity won out over Susan Boyle in the Britain's Got Talent Final, most sensible papers would have given it a quarter of a page in the showbiz section, then the Sun would have gone with 'SuBo loses to Diversity' and then the Daily Mail would have led with 'Gang of black youths beat pensioner, millions of witnesses do nothing'.
I still maintain that the print media see videogames as a rival, who's going to buy a paper full of shit when you can buy an itunes game for a dollar or a sale game on Steam for $2, therefore they have to use fearmongering to turn them into an evil destroyer of children's minds.
On top of all that, it could be that Raoul Moat only went off on a murder spree, and I believe someone else has gone killing people then himself since then, BECAUSE of the level of media coverage of the taxi driver who killed many people, whose name I already forget because he's a worthless idiot that history needs to ignore, not worship like these papers do.
I'm no better than 'experts' who claim video games cause violence in kids here, but I'll happily state that newspaper coverage of serial killers and nutters with guns cause other people to copycat the crimes. Raoul himself stated that if the media didn't stop lying about him and his family he'd start killing civilians and not only police.
Of course that convinced the media to send more cameras, choppers and reporters to the scene in the hope they can actually get some live murders on film to show after 10pm.
There'd have been raises all over Fleet Street if only they'd got photos of his final bullets actually leaving the back of his skull, the scummy, hate filled vultures that the newspapers are.
I in no way have any sympathy for Raoul Moat or anyone like him but to treat him like a celebrity is just so many kinds of wrong, and then to claim people are going to try to make money off him with a movie and video game ( while they slap him on every front page for a week), is just sick.
I'm no better than 'experts' who claim video games cause violence in kids here, but I'll happily state that newspaper coverage of serial killers and nutters with guns cause other people to copycat the crimes. Raoul himself stated that if the media didn't stop lying about him and his family he'd start killing civilians and not only police.
Of course that convinced the media to send more cameras, choppers and reporters to the scene in the hope they can actually get some live murders on film to show after 10pm.
There'd have been raises all over Fleet Street if only they'd got photos of his final bullets actually leaving the back of his skull, the scummy, hate filled vultures that the newspapers are.
I in no way have any sympathy for Raoul Moat or anyone like him but to treat him like a celebrity is just so many kinds of wrong, and then to claim people are going to try to make money off him with a movie and video game ( while they slap him on every front page for a week), is just sick.
Me'h, just about what I expect from the Daily Star. The paper I buy so my puppy as a place to shit which isn't our kitchen floor. Though I guess it's not as bad as "If Stephen Hawkins was British...".
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Ironically the Daily Star is a hard right newspaper.vallorn said:
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Daily Star you dun goofed. Seriously though this is definitely going way too far.
Also on a side note they have been making GTA Somalia for a while now I mean hey look at this cover for the game.
Also on a side note they have been making GTA Somalia for a while now I mean hey look at this cover for the game.
