Where Homeless hotspots and the Guardian ad meet
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Homeless Hotspots (see post below) seem to be getting some people well fucked off and that.
But that article is full of some awfully lazy journalism:
Comments posted to the BBH’s site accused the project of being “unseemly” and “wrong”.
Members of Twitter asked “what has this world come to?” and accused the project of being a “gimmick”.
However, others praised the idea as being “inspirational” and a chance to create a “positive interaction between the public” and homeless people.
‘Others’? ‘Members of Twitter’? ‘Comments’?
Translation: some people, who may or may not be fucking stupid, opinionated morons, said…
Who gives a shit what they said?
I’ll tell you who: The Guardian…
I thought it just told you where the homeless people were so as you could avoid them. Any chance we doing it over here but with chavs?
Looking at the bigger picture I think we, well some of us, maybe living in a bubble.
Read dave trotts most recent post.
Stevie Spring came over to our agency for a chat the other day. She painted a very clear picture of how fucked the newspapers are. Even The Guardian, with it’s big pot of charity money, can’t afford enough/decent journalists to cover this story properly, it would seem.
If you ever get the chance to enjoy lunch with Stevie, I’d take it. She has an interesting theory about newspaper funding and phone hacking. Plus, I think she’s properly minted so would probably pay (smiling face made of punctuation marks)
Original Richard H,
I second and third that about Stevie.
Don’t know if you saw this, but IMHO it explains why she is the way she is: http://www.cstthegate.com/davetrott/2012/02/how-to-grow-confident-kids/
Is it pc?
A national broadsheet refers to their printed edition as the ‘heritage press’.
Tells you all you need to know doesn’t it?
I used to comment on the Guardian site fairly regularly, you could get caught up in some interesting/infuriating/enlightening discussions in the comments section under their articles.
Nowadays however by the time I get to them there’s already 3 pages of comments under every article, most of which seems to be right/left wing nonsense or someone asking why the Guardian is covering this unimportant story (I mean, every story, every single one). That’s not interaction or conversation, thats just noise.