Quote Originally Posted by Geoff Parkstone View Post
Whereas, in this little microcosm, all we tend to see when it comes to comments on the media, are howls of outrage from yourself and Swale about the terrible actions of the right wing press. Everything seems to be their fault: I swear if you **** your pants on the way home from the pub one night you'd find a way to blame it on the right wing press.

Sauce for the goose, sauce for the gander
And here for your delectation is a current example of the insidious nonsense pumped out by right wing media in an attempt to stir up up faux rage.

Articles in the Telegraph (supposedly a series paper), the Daily Fail The Express and repeated on reported on GBeebies, about Tesco supposedly "cancelling Christmas".

The Telegraph article claims Tesco are selling an evergreen tree, with no reference to Christmas in their Christmas range WTF??

The claim was they had called it an Evergreen tree instead of Christmas tree, the turth is its one of a range of luxury trees in their Christmas tree range!! The Telegraph even admits that al the trees in their range have Merry Christmas on the box containing the tree!

Apparently Tesco trusts their customers to know that a plastic Tree in a display box labelled MERRY CHRISTMAS is indeed a Christmas Tree!

The Telegraph, Express, GB News and Daily Mail do not believe their readers are capable of that!

And given the comments sections, they’re not wrong!
GBNews, had a report seemingly gleaned from X accounts making claims that Tesco had "stolen Christmas", slightly awkward when on their website the article sits next to a link which claims Tesco have the best Christmas advert this year!!

The Express made a strange choice in their photos to accompany their version.

They were the photos that actually showed the MERRY CHRISTMAS signage around the boxes!

The Daily Mail of course went for the full on ‘woke’ attack line while claiming that ALL of the Tesco Christmas trees had been renamed “evergreen trees”


We’ve entered the “they’re banning Christmas” season on social media. But its mind boggling that actual newspapers (although perhaps thats being to kind to them) would take the confected outrage by anonymous far-Right social media accounts and turn them into “news” stories!

Its not the political leaning of these media thats a major concern, its the amount of utterly inaccurate and misleading "news" they push out, often purposely to create faux rage and protest.

What's worrying is that people who I would normally consider to be capable of rational thought, including some on here, seem to believe this stuff.