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Ain't that the truth... :crazy:
Did the Herald Sun publish a call to assassinate Julia Gillard?
July 16, 2011 – 9:58 am, by Jeremy Sear
If you look through the last few Cut & Paste Trophy threads you’ll find lots of comments that we’ve seen, published by News Ltd, by hysterical readers saying they wouldn’t be surprised if someone assassinated Brown or Gillard, demanding that “something must be done” to get rid of this government, desperately hoping that its slim majority can be… reduced.
But you wouldn’t think the Herald Sun would actually publish a specific, undeniable call for assassination, would you?
If this screenshot is accurate – and we don’t know which post it was from – then we’d say News Ltd is flat-out publishing incitements to violence now, of the most despicable and disturbing kind:
An actual call to assassinate the Prime Minister, published by a major media organisation. A call to do it urgently, with a paranoid cry that she’s going to “destroy our way of life”.
Published by News Ltd rather than, say, referred to the AFP.
Inciting fear and hatred, and then gleefully publishing the results. And I suppose they’ll act all shocked and innocent if one of their crazy readers goes and does something terrible.
Wests Tigers Captain Robbie Farah has issued the following statement.
I have written to Prime Minister Julia Gillard today to apologise for any hurt caused by a tweet I posted in 2011.
As you are aware I have been vocal in recent days about criticising those who say some pretty disgraceful things through social media and I have appreciated your support in relation to that cause.
It is an experience that has highlighted the hurtful nature of unthinking comments and even those which are sometimes put forward as ?black humour?.
In the course of this I have been alerted to a ?tweet? I made last year in relation to the Prime Minister which was in hindsight clearly offensive.
At the time I did think about what I had done and removed the ?tweet? soon after posting it but that of course doesn?t repair the damage.
I make no excuse and offer my sincere apologies. I can only say that I have learnt a lot in recent days and I hope that everyone in the community can learn about the pain that we can cause through such comments.
Hopefully the whole situation will only serve to encourage everyone to think about what we are really saying before we hit the ?send? key.
http://www.weststigers.com.au/news-display/Robbie-Farah-statement/63830
Wests Tigers Captain Robbie Farah has issued the following statement.
I have written to Prime Minister Julia Gillard today to apologise for any hurt caused by a tweet I posted in 2011.
As you are aware I have been vocal in recent days about criticising those who say some pretty disgraceful things through social media and I have appreciated your support in relation to that cause.
It is an experience that has highlighted the hurtful nature of unthinking comments and even those which are sometimes put forward as ?black humour?.
In the course of this I have been alerted to a ?tweet? I made last year in relation to the Prime Minister which was in hindsight clearly offensive.
At the time I did think about what I had done and removed the ?tweet? soon after posting it but that of course doesn?t repair the damage.
I make no excuse and offer my sincere apologies. I can only say that I have learnt a lot in recent days and I hope that everyone in the community can learn about the pain that we can cause through such comments.
Hopefully the whole situation will only serve to encourage everyone to think about what we are really saying before we hit the ?send? key.
http://www.weststigers.com.au/news-display/Robbie-Farah-statement/63830
