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Is the media damaging society?

  • 18-04-2005 9:38pm
    #1
    pretty-in-pink
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,007 ✭✭✭


    I'm posing this question with particular referance to the way the press has reacted to the collen/rooney debacle- in that the initial general opinion is she chose to leave school, and not get any qualifications- that shes rooneys property(as he pays for everything), and that she was goading him(by saying he put her health at risk by shagging prostitutes) and so pretty much deserved it.

    Even when the truth came out the papers have been loath to diss old wayne- now IMHO this is showing a very bad trend towards not only accepting but nearly condoning violence towards your partner.

    In general the way the lives of soccer players are shown in the papers are very pro-them and anti-the opposition.

    Is this sort of "reporting" causing problems for society- or indeed will it? How can we sit around and watch as things like slapping your girlfriend/wife around, or having an affair (a la david beckham) is accepted as being normal? When do we say "enough"?


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  • #2
    simu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,730 ✭✭✭✭simu


    Don't read tabloids tbh.


  • #3
    dangerman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,169 ✭✭✭dangerman


    id say you're damaging society by taking any of that trite on. it's all bull**** entertainment, either enjoy it or stop reading about it.


  • #4
    bus77
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,313 ✭✭✭bus77


    simu wrote:
    Don't read tabloids tbh.

    beat me to it


  • #5
    Eoin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,257 ✭✭✭✭Eoin


    ^ what the others said. But, while on the topic - if the tabloids really were "pro" soccer players, then they probably would focus on his (Rooney) recent sporting performances rather than what he did to his girlfriend. They will write what will sell papers.

    WRT to the Beckham "affairs being seen as normal" - if it was seen as normal, then there probably wouldn't have been so many articles about it. Beckham is a public figure, who puts himself in the limelight with his activities IMHO. The media have no problems at all reporting on soccer players who are put away for a month for drink driving etc (recent case - don't follow the sport, so can't tell you who it was) so really have to disagree with you on the papers being pro soccer players.


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