Can't imagine why you'd want to make a story like that up...
It got their name on an article in the Guardian.
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Posted 29 September 2012 - 04:53 PM
It got their name on an article in the Guardian.
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Posted 29 September 2012 - 05:09 PM
If he were that way inclined surely it would be simpler to just sell an article to the Daily Mail about how latest "research" shows that immigrants cause cancer
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Posted 29 September 2012 - 05:14 PM
If he were that way inclined surely it would be simpler to just sell an article to the Daily Mail about how latest "research" shows that immigrants cause cancer
They have an auto generator for that sort of thing now.
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Posted 29 September 2012 - 05:20 PM
that would make sense...
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Posted 01 October 2012 - 10:20 AM
"Journalists are meant to be neutral, for God's sake." - Stephen 'Wiggy' Jones
"Perhaps it would be better that future criticism of sports be made on the narrow basis of what is being discussed, without reference to other sports, unless those sports offer a solution to the problem in hand." - Brian 'Pigface' Moore
"What happens in rugby union? A player takes the ball, moves forward a little and gets tackled. A whole load of players then roll about on the ground. Pheep! The referee gives a penalty." - Simon Barnes
"Perhaps it would be better that future criticism of sports be made on the narrow basis of what is being discussed, without reference to other sports, unless those sports offer a solution to the problem in hand." - Brian 'Pigface' Moore
"What happens in rugby union? A player takes the ball, moves forward a little and gets tackled. A whole load of players then roll about on the ground. Pheep! The referee gives a penalty." - Simon Barnes
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Posted 24 October 2012 - 10:10 AM
Turns out there's a fair number of people who think this story is a crock.
And here's a blog with some reasons why: http://paulclarke.co...he-bell-trolls/
And here's a blog with some reasons why: http://paulclarke.co...he-bell-trolls/
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Posted 24 October 2012 - 02:44 PM
Turns out there's a fair number of people who think this story is a crock.
And here's a blog with some reasons why: http://paulclarke.co...he-bell-trolls/
That's quite a persuasive article.
Like many people I assumed that the Guardian had checked its sources before publishing the original piece.
Perhaps they didn't.
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Posted 24 October 2012 - 03:34 PM
The original article seems to be quite novelised, rather than a conventional journalistic piece. There may be an element of truth in it but there appears to have been a lot of polishing it for the telling it, if that is the case.
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