Example:

I saw a friend on Facebook link to a story from the Mail last week, mockingly blaming another teacher friend for killing a kid by going on strike. The girl had been crushed by a falling tree when she was away from school because of a strike and the preposterous headline in the Mail suggested it was the fault of the striking teachers. But I think that by making light of a child's death in response you just end up in a race to the bottom. I shudder to think what kind of headline the Mail could come up with if they'd seen that post on Facebook.

Posted By: King on July 5th 2011 at 15:55:26

Message Thread

Hey it's ok, the Mail dont hack phones (General Chat) - Worzel Scrimmage, Jul 5, 15:27:46
- It seems to me that the trend for vilifying the Mail just compounds their prejudices (General Chat) - King, Jul 5, 15:50:11
  - this riles me because I work for a company Rothermere is personally involved with (General Chat) - Worzel Scrimmage, Jul 5, 16:11:18
    - You didn't mention you are a journalist (n/m) (General Chat) - UtterlyHuckerby, Jul 5, 16:27:03
      - I am a journalist and I work in finance where phone hacking and attacking (General Chat) - Worzel Scrimmage, Jul 5, 16:33:56
        
        hacks and hacking do seem to sit together quite well (General Chat) - UtterlyHuckerby, Jul 5, 16:37:13
        
        FOYSC (n/m) (General Chat) - Worzel Scrimmage, Jul 5, 16:38:22
        
        have ^^^ (n/m) (General Chat) - UtterlyHuckerby, Jul 5, 16:37:27
    - Well as much as I hate to agree with him (General Chat) - King, Jul 5, 16:18:29
      - I very much doubt he 's appalled by the illegality of it (General Chat) - Worzel Scrimmage, Jul 5, 16:24:03
  - Chicken and Egg innit? (General Chat) - Hertz van Rental, Jul 5, 16:10:47
    - Feel free to rearrange that 1st sentence into something resembling English for yourselves (n/m) (General Chat) - Hertz van Rental, Jul 5, 16:11:44
      - jeepers, my brain isn't working. The disaster area is Liz Jones (General Chat) - Hertz van Rental, Jul 5, 16:15:55
        
        Assumed you meant Littlejohn, not Jones. (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, Jul 5, 16:25:01
  - Example: (General Chat) - King, Jul 5, 15:55:26
    - it's not really a 'trend' of despising the Mail though is it (General Chat) - Worzel Scrimmage, Jul 5, 16:13:36
      - I think it has (General Chat) - King, Jul 5, 16:22:25
        
        and rightly so, you can't expect people to see the hate they try to fuel and keep quiet (General Chat) - Worzel Scrimmage, Jul 5, 16:26:18
        
        This is my point exactly though (General Chat) - King, Jul 5, 16:29:56
        
        I suppose that's ultimately where we differ (General Chat) - King, Jul 5, 16:38:20
        
        you cant fight ire with ire (General Chat) - Tombs, Jul 5, 16:41:32
        
        ah, now that's more logical and sensible (General Chat) - Worzel Scrimmage, Jul 5, 16:41:18
        
        that's ridiculous. How is criticising serious lacks of ethics 'matching their moral decrep (General Chat) - Worzel Scrimmage, Jul 5, 16:35:19
- do immigrants have phones? (General Chat) - Tombs, Jul 5, 15:28:50
  - voodoo phones (n/m) (General Chat) - selwyn, Jul 5, 16:59:30
  - I expect they do and they steal other people's minutes (General Chat) - Worzel Scrimmage, Jul 5, 15:30:56
    - racist (n/m) (General Chat) - UtterlyHuckerby, Jul 5, 17:11:01

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