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Feb 2020
4:27pm, 8 Feb 2020
3,228 posts
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Kittenheels Kath
I'm much happier since I stopped reading newspapers. I think some papers need reminding that there is a difference between "in the public interest" and "of interest to the public".
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Feb 2020
4:35pm, 8 Feb 2020
35,758 posts
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Nellers
As long as they still sell plenty I don't think any of the papers care.
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Feb 2020
5:21pm, 8 Feb 2020
9,967 posts
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Joopsy
Bang on Nellers. I haven’t read the papers for years.
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Feb 2020
9:00pm, 8 Feb 2020
9,969 posts
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Joopsy
And now I’m getting adverts for gay cruises!
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Feb 2020
9:11pm, 8 Feb 2020
7,969 posts
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Caterpillar
Nellers is spot on. As always, I don't blame the media. I blame the people that create the market to which they sell their product. If we just ignored the hell out of it they'd have to find something we would consume.
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Feb 2020
9:39am, 9 Feb 2020
4,477 posts
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1step2far
I don't think Schofield had much choice, it's not him singling himself out as different but society. Like Gareth Thomas, he had to control the narrative. Get in 1st and stop the papers smearing him. If he hadn't then they could have run the home wrecker angle. Etc.
As for the power of the press, you only have to look at the language used in Brexit, and the manipulation of lies to see how much power they wield.
I'm with JK, things have improved. Very fast in fact. But, they have also taken some steps back since 2016.
Talking to less tolerant colleagues they say it's because they now feel they can say what they want to. Not the 'political correctness gone mad...' the homophobia was there, just under the surface. Go to the big pride events and there are groups there informing us that we are an abomination.
Great Yarmouth held it's first gay pride last summer. The comments on the local papers facebook site were absolutely shocking.
If I see two guys holding hands here (small town Norfolk) my initial response is still 'ohh that's brave' 
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Feb 2020
9:47am, 9 Feb 2020
9,971 posts
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Joopsy
Same in Lincoln 1step. Whenever the local pride comes around the local Facebook page goes into overdrive with the usual numbskulls.
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Feb 2020
9:48am, 9 Feb 2020
4,478 posts
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1step2far
This a scren shot of one of my responses last summer to the comments on Great Yarmouth pride... I was a bit angry. 😳
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Feb 2020
9:49am, 9 Feb 2020
4,479 posts
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1step2far
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Feb 2020
9:57am, 9 Feb 2020
9,973 posts
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Joopsy
I have written that post so many times! I’ve just come off it now, some may say it’s defeatist but it was futile, nobody wanted educating from their entrenched views and it was only making me very angry. I love the amount of people (it’s almost always men) who ask when straight pride is, I always respond by saying it’s when they organise it. There is still a huge amount of people who feel they are being somewhat victimised through pride and just can’t understand why ‘they’ aren’t be celebrated, even though they have never been persecuted.
And the homeless line is always trotted out by someone who does absolutely nothing to help the homeless.
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