Steve Hunt wrote:shabbado wrote:m4rkb wrote:I'm amazed anyone's remotely interested in this tittle tattle.
This.
It's beyond inane.
Damning indictment on 21st Century Britain
Yup.
Reality TV, wags, Simon Cowell, Soaps, Z list celebrities - welcome to modern Britain
You lot are all correct on this, it does show how bad modern Britain is.........
But, and it’s a big ‘but’, I’m finding this story absolutely fascinating!
Not only has someone who has been using slimy underhand tactics to get well in with the press been caught out red handed. The part I find extraordinary is, how could a national newspaper have fallen for such a simple sting?
Let’s take the final story as an example. The house had apparently been flooded. Now how hard would it have been for the reporter to have done a bit of research into flooding in that area? They could’ve phoned the local paper and asked if the flooding was bad. I’m sure if they’d mentioned they were from the Sun, the local journalist would’ve seen this as a big break. The Sun could’ve even sent the reporter to the area. Done a piece about the flooding!!!
But none of that seems to have happened. Instead some lazy journalist has sat in their Metropolitan London bubble and ‘gone’ with the story supplied by their ‘source’. Not only that, but other papers reported it too!!!! Not one of them bothered to find out if it was true.
Which all begs the question - what else have they not bothered researching????