Typical Right-Wing Press witholding the truth

[Rheghead]

Just to demonstrate that the we only get fed a load of lies from these newspapers. The Sunday Times has attempted to bury all references to an online poll amongst its readership due its editorial stance that showed that 56% supported wind farms. A similar poll in the Daily Mail showed the same result.

http://politicalscrapbook.net/2011/1...mes-wind-farms

[bekisman]

Just to demonstrate that the we only get fed a load of lies from these newspapers. The Sunday Times has attempted to bury all references to an online poll amongst its readership due its editorial stance that showed that 56% supported wind farms. A similar poll in the Daily Mail showed the same result.

http://politicalscrapbook.net/2011/1...mes-wind-farms

Your very personal point is?

[billmoseley]

the truth about all this is probably blowing in the wind

[bekisman]

the truth about all this is probably blowing in the wind

Very witty!

[Corrie 3]

How stupid.............of course a high number of people will support wind farms. The reason being they haven't got them near to where they live!! You try and stick a wind farm in their backyard and then watch them squeal!!!!!
This happens in England all the while!!

C3............

[John Little]

How stupid.............of course a high number of people will support wind farms. The reason being they haven't got them near to where they live!! You try and stick a wind farm in their backyard and then watch them squeal!!!!!
This happens in England all the while!!

C3............

Sigh.


http://www.bwea.com/ukwed/google.asp

[Corrie 3]

Sigh.


http://www.bwea.com/ukwed/google.asp

Why the sigh John?
You only have to Google to see how many windfarms are challenged in England, people just don't want them near to them but don't mind others suffering them!!!

C3................

[John Little]

Completely different to Scotland then.

[Corrie 3]

Completely different to Scotland then.

I think it is in so much as the Protesters seem to have more success in England than we do up here! (that is my own personal view based on news reports read over the last 10 years!)!

C3............

[theone]

I don't think the newspaper is "feeding us lies" at all.

Choosing not to publish the results of a poll is hardly lying.

There's not many "politically minded" or "scientifically minded" people on here who would offer evidence AGAINST their viewpoint in a debate. Does that make them liars?

There's no such thing as a neutral newspaper. They all have world views and agendas based on, amongst other things, their ownership, editorial team and their readership. Each paper will spin the news to suit their own opinions. Most them won't even try to hide it.

[billmoseley]

do what i do read the news from several different sources then take your own view. except what i read on here as i know that is all true.

[Gronnuck]

Just to demonstrate that the we only get fed a load of lies from these newspapers. The Sunday Times has attempted to bury all references to an online poll amongst its readership due its editorial stance that showed that 56% supported wind farms. A similar poll in the Daily Mail showed the same result.

http://politicalscrapbook.net/2011/1...mes-wind-farms

This type of poll is hardly democratic or scientific and ignores many other issues.
People living in a metropolitan sprawl are hardly going to notice a few wind turbines parked on their doorstep among a myriad of other tall, unsightly structures. They might actually enjoy having these structures on their skyline. Whereas people living in a scattered rural community with big skies and open countryside are certainly going to notice an ugly scattering of monstrous metal towers.
While I appreciate the need to stop using fossil fuels and the need for renewable energy I'm very much against the desecration of our countryside at the behest of the moneymen. There has to be another way. Why not arrange them off the coast on the continental shelf where the only people to see them will be ships that pass?

[billmoseley]

maybe we should take a pole on what people think of poles

[Rheghead]

This type of poll is hardly democratic or scientific and ignores many other issues.
People living in a metropolitan sprawl are hardly going to notice a few wind turbines parked on their doorstep among a myriad of other tall, unsightly structures. They might actually enjoy having these structures on their skyline. Whereas people living in a scattered rural community with big skies and open countryside are certainly going to notice an ugly scattering of monstrous metal towers.
While I appreciate the need to stop using fossil fuels and the need for renewable energy I'm very much against the desecration of our countryside at the behest of the moneymen. There has to be another way. Why not arrange them off the coast on the continental shelf where the only people to see them will be ships that pass?

You are missing the point, the fact is the right wing press are burying articles which don't meet their editorial stance. If it was the other way around then it would be front page news.

[bekisman]

Oh you are silly Reggie it seems that the right-wing press is not the same as a right-wing government?
"The Chancellor and the Chief Secretary to the Treasury today visited Nigg on the Cromarty Firth, where they announced around £100 million of additional funding for Scottish renewable energy," Duh

The Express: Right
The Mail: Right
The Telegraph: Right
The Evening Standard: Right of centre
The Sun: Right of centre
The Times: Moderate right of centre
The Independent: Left of centre
The Mirror: Left
The Observer: Left
The Guardian: Left

[theone]

You are missing the point, the fact is the right wing press are burying articles which don't meet their editorial stance.

And the left wing press bury the opposite.

I don't understand the issue.

[Gronnuck]

You are missing the point, the fact is the right wing press are burying articles which don't meet their editorial stance. If it was the other way around then it would be front page news.

Maybe, just maybe the right wing press realised the poll had more holes in it than a colander and decided not to publish!

[Rheghead]

And the left wing press bury the opposite.

I don't understand the issue.

When it comes to climate change and renewable energy then the left wing press do not bury the facts and truth, so the beef is really with the right wing press.

[ducati]

When it comes to climate change and renewable energy then the left wing press do not bury the facts and truth, so the beef is really with the right wing press.

I didn't know it was a left or right issue.

[Errogie]

I really would like to observe the reaction to a planning application for a wind turbine on Arthur's Seat and a couple more along the edge of Salisbury crags. How would Eck play it?