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13/01/2006 by Ewoowar
Hello Mum We're Famous
[url="http://www.herts-essex-news.co.uk/news/mercury/hertfordshire_mercury/2006/01/13/stunt%20film%20youth%20turns%20his%20lens%20on%20towns%20needs.lpf"]Stunt film youth turns his lens on town's needs[/url]
That's better.
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Reply ID 15203
13/01/2006 by thefair1973
yep, I must admit it is. Doesn't mention any sort of apology for sensationalising the original story by the journalist though.
Reply ID 15213
13/01/2006 by Dude
So the Mercury "exposed" rather than sensationalised? Bless em!
If the comments printed were correct, I'm a little worried the youth are just looking to kill time until they can go to pubs.
Reply ID 15214
13/01/2006 by sloopjohnb
Having spoken to Raymond earlier in the week I was interested to see what the follow up story would be like. Not disappointed. I am not going to divulge the conversation either but some of the younger members might like to know what is being said and why.
So you're bored. So look at it from an older persons perspective (not mine - just the same Joe Public who give me grief every day).
You are riding bikes, making documentaries and uploading them on to the net and discussing it on line here. Amazing. Not what i would call bored; more like doing something. However it is perceived that you have too much money - bikes, phones, computers etc etc - and still you're bored.
Someone on another thread asked what older people did when young. Most of my friends and self lived a couple of steps from real poverty back in the mid 1950's. If we wanted a football we couldn't ask parents - we collected a couple of ton of newspapers and sold them to the rag and bone man. The one on Fire Engine Hill never missed the telephone directory stuffed in the middle and dropped his rates accordingly. Personaly I think that filming stupid pranks counts as the same sort of initiative.
And good, you got some decent publicity at the end of it all. Trouble is there are more than enough people out there who were born middle aged and forget that they were once young; and just as many kids who can't be bothered to get off their composite backsides.
Thought I'd say that - been a long week, otherwise would have commented earlier.
Reply ID 15260
16/01/2006 by Steve
According to Raymond Brown's follow-up article:
"Our front-page story provoked a heated debate on the website. The arguments were read 3,721 times in six days and 135 comments were made."
Maybe I'm missing something here, but I've not seen "a heated debate" or any "argument".
What I HAVE seen is a backlash against sloppy reporting.
Reply ID 15375
18/01/2006 by Dude
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Originally posted by Steve
According to Raymond Brown's follow-up article:
"Our front-page story provoked a heated debate on the website. The arguments were read 3,721 times in six days and 135 comments were made."
Maybe I'm missing something here, but I've not seen "a heated debate" or any "argument".
What I HAVE seen is a backlash against sloppy reporting.
LOL. That hit the nail on the head. I've spoken to a lot of friends about the subject this week, and quite a few of them has now seen this site.
They have also seen the Mercury "version" of events and simply laughed at the "journalism".
The Mercury needs to get back to real local issues, not sensationalism, otherwise it will be extinct in 5 years.
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