Being targeted by the Sun and Daily Mail should be like a badge of honour. The only people that read them are bigoted ****s anyway.
As I said earlier in the thread, it's a good thing. This city is a better place with ****s like those not around it. That goes for most critics who assume that by seeing a picture of the Humber Bridge that they've been here.
Exactly. The type of person that spouts or believes that sort of ****e, are the ones we don't want coming here anyway. **** 'em. WE KNOW WHAT WE ARE.
That's very subjective but he's written in nearly every major British newspaper anyway, including the Guardian and New Statesman. I actually don't mind him that much but the Daily Mail still peddles as much hate as it did in the 1930s.
And hate is never peddled on here? I am not bothered what paper the person next to me reads. I hate no one because of their views, culture, faith, sexuality religion or politics. I may hate people because of what they say or do. I tolerate difference, but not ignorance. I will put my own life at risk to protect the innocent and I am willing to kill those who would take away the freedoms that I have in this country. I also read the Daily Mail am I a bigot?
'I tolerate difference, not ignorance' Again, what you consider 'ignorance' is subjective. Read what you want.
When someone tries to put our City down there is only one thing we can do and that's big up as much as we can. If there was ever a time to shout from the rooftops about why we love Hull now is the time. Instead of abusing the journalists, lets try and change people's perceptions of our great city, let's show them what Hull is really like.
Spot on. The Hull Daily Mail which is owned by the Daily Mail first headlined about someone having a fight on Beverley Road on New Years Eve......and he wasn't even wearing a shirt ! Then they gave PC Pants Down a platform to tell everyone how good he is and how bad we all are. What about the other 364 days of the year ? Does every fight on every street corner get the front page ? Or is IT only news when its New Years Eve ? New Years Eve must have been a very quiet news day especially for a newspaper that has to go to press ( in another city, so much for its promoting Hull campaigns) well before the New Year was actually rung in. I'd of sooner have seen a front page investigating how a HCC controlled leisure company chaired by Councillor Geraghty managed to lose £2.7m in its first trading year, but that was hidden away on Christmas Eve on page 40 odd amongst the lost budgies and such.
The sheer nerve of the HDM takes some beating. They printed the story originally, complete with the usual hysterical comments from Inspector Pantsdown , who would like to bring in prohibition and enforce a 10pm curfew in his ideal world*, which was quoted by the Sun, the DM and the Independent.Today they have a campaign against the Sun with an article quoting the Sun (who had only repeated what they had written) and a headline of "How we reported it". Except it wasn't as the HDM article thy refer to by themselves is the COC opening night. Closed for comments to stop people pointing out their hypocrisy. The Burns show was inundated with people waxing indignant about it, rivalling Scousers fof indignation and self-pity. Right near the end he read a text from the Sun out, which pointed out that they had quoted an article by the local paper, which itself quoted the local police bigwig Downey and the photographs were by agency photographers, some of which the HDM themselves used and nobody denies occurred, so what was the problem. Burns rather grudgingly accepted this, murmuring that they may have a point. I see Prescott has waded in, one of his gems being that previously culture in Hull was rugby and fish and chips. That oaf does more to bring about the notion there isn't culture in Hull than anyone else. * Remember Pantsdown wanting a complete ban on the sale of alcohol the day we played Leeds in a pre-season friendly a few years back? This idea was dropped when the council realised this would have meant no alcohol available at an event they were hosting to show potential business investors from outside the city what a progressive, vibrant city Hull was and an awards ceremony at the Guildhall to honour local citizens with awards for achievement.
I'm afraid that I have long ago learned that dissing Hull doesn't have to be done by national newspapers as I have experienced prejudice from much closer to home. I worked for quite a while in the Beverley/Walkington area and found a few people who said that they wouldn't be seen dead in Hull and were rather derogatory in general. My last experience was a couple from Walkington who had been on holiday to the same place as my wife and I and told us that they were lucky to visit Hull twice a year. But then when we were all finishing our holiday and our daughter came to pick us up at the drop off point, this couple's taxi arrangements went adrift so no taxi was available. I gave them a number and another guy did but the couple just said, seeing as they were both Hull numbers they would try and make alternative arrangements as they would rather not use Hull taxis, nothing has changed for me in my assessment.
Nothing unique in that. I have come across similar in Leeds, Sheffield and Middlesbrough regarding the attitude of residents on the outskirts of the city and surrounding areas. Will happen elsewhere as well. What amused me was working somewhere in East Riding where people who spent all week criticising Wessies used to spend time and money to sit amongst 30,000 of them on a Saturday. Hull Whites and East Yorkshire Whites, do more verminous creatures exist?
