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Friday, December 17, 2004

Standard Shite

Do you want reactionary shite to read, but don't want to spend the money? Then Standard Lite's for you. I just got one this lunchtime outside Aldgate East station. Front page headline: 'Death of the nativity play'. 12 out of 19 schools aren't having nativities because not everyone's a christian. 'Christmas in our schools is being eroded away' and 'we are celebrating all other world religions but not our own.' are some choice quotes. But our religion isn't really christianity anyway, we were druids and pagans before the semites let us know there's more to spirirtuality than animalism.
Then the front page photo is of 'Carjacked at gunpoint for my 4x4' and a photo of an unhappy woman and her dog. Great fuel for crime paranoia. And then there's the level crossing crash driver 'was told he had HIV'. Which is tragic, when someone's so upset that they take their own life, only in death to have the upsetting news emblazened across the front of a free sheet.

It's just a lot of twisted logic. People getting off the tube, in a very Asian/non-christian area. 1)they don't have a car to jack, 2)they probably don't give a shit about nativity plays.

The whole newspaper continues in this vain, council house bashing, Princess Diana (died years ago), the courts declaring Ken's Fair is Fare campaign illegal (in the mid-80s) and my horoscope says: 'As a sensible Virgo, you don't need anyone to tell you what's worthwhile and what isn't. Still, you're hesitant about taking advantage of revolutionary ideas that are being discussed'. It's the anti-Pravda (I can't read russian).
Why is local press so crap?

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