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Originally Posted by Hugh
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And your point is???
Any union represents it's members. It can advise it's members, but it can't force them to do anything.
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Originally Posted by martyh
your putting words in my mouth again ,you realy must start reading properly .I was commenting on Tims ridiculous claim that a DA notice was used to supress/block a story about firemen saving a mother and son from a house fire in stevenage during the 2003 fire mans strike so please read the bloody posts before commenting in future
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What Chrysalis says is spot on. But for some reason you think that you know better.
I don't know for sure, and neither do you if a D-Notice was actually used officially, or if pressure was just put on the press. The fact is that as a D-Notice is a voulantary agreement, it wouldn't make any difference if it was used officially or not. The result was still the same, and will be with any dispute that the government have an interest in putting out negative propoganda.
In 2003 a friend of mine phoned up the Sun to ask why they were printing deliberate lies about firefighters. The response was that they knew what they were printing was lies, but they will print it anyway because they don't agree with the dispute.....Obviously on their usual form, they didn't want the truth to get in the way of a good story
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Originally Posted by Hugh
"propoganda (sic)" - When something is said, printed, or presented in media which disagrees with my views....
If there is a conspiracy by Government and 'Big Business' to have the media on the Government's side, they are not very good at it, considering all the critical items in the media about the Government (current and previous).... |
Sorry Hugh, but you really need to understand the underhand ways that governments and the press operate. We are starting to see more about how the press operate at the moment.
I was only using the firefighters dispute as one example. But if we continue to use this one. So the scenario is that a senior minister asks lets say the Sun editor not to print any story that puts firefighters in a good light, and in return they will feed the paper with a few exclusive stories.
Well this is a no brainer for the Sun. All they have to do is not print a couple of local stories, that would have only been fillers anyway. And in return they get a couple of nationally important exclusives.
Getting the picture??