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Hull is already in Hull so it can't get any worse ;)
The Hull Daily Mail evidently decided over the weekend it had received enough of a kicking over its Beverley porncoder investigation, and pulled all comments on both the original story and the follow-up. For those of you not up to speed on Beverleyporngate, the Mail exposed the owner of Beverley news website HU17.net, Paul …
They clearly feel threatened by the HU.17 website. A BBC report from a few years ago shows how strongly they wanted to be sole media provider in the area:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/aboutthebbc/reports/pdf/local_tv_news_laughton.html
Pages 37 and 38 refer to HDM's declining market share and are likely to be the cause of their personal attack on Mr Smith.
Someone point out to the editor of the HDM the El Reg story maybe we can get another FoTW from him after the excellent rant from tha NASA engineer.
I'm sure the 'Think of the Children' law made up by daily rags will be trotted out as the reason behind this shameful attempt at (Sorry i can't use the word journalism for this stroy, whats the corect word for a hack story like this, ah i know) Jeremy Karl (think thats wrong) reporting.
All "newspapers" that are part of the "This Is" network are equally reactive over comments criticising the moral standpoint of the paper. "This is Gloucestershire" regularly delete comments on their website for nothing more than pointing out that the paper's apparent moral standpoint over pornography and prostitution is at odds to their policy of accepting paid advertising from "Escorts" and "Masseuses". Also in Gloucestershire it is apparently "wrong" to criticise the newspaper's weather "expert"
I happen to know several journalists who either work for, or have worked for the Bristol Evening Post, (as in 'This Is Bristol'), they're all perfectly pleasant people. Maybe it's no coincidence that this particular paper seems to be doing fairly well round these parts, whereas the HDM with reportedly poor circulation is stooping to this sort of story to attempt to claw back readership.
I don't know what makes you think it's enshrined in the constitution somehow that you are entitled to bleat your opinion on everything. Besides, there have been plenty of occasions of late when Andrew's stories have allowed comments.
You lot really are going to drive me to drink. Wait - to stronger drink.
"In fact, as of this morning, comments are suspended across the entire Mail site. El Reg's Moderatrix was earlier said to be "impressed" with the paper's handling of unruly commentards."
Ja Wohl mein (English)(fuckin+) Fuhrer.
Yet editor John Meehan is happy to pimp his rag, The Hull Daily Mail, and publish classified adverts for Escort Services.
So Meehan gets paid by the HDM who derives some its earnings from sex workers. I think the public should know what kind of hypocrite he is.
See: http://classifieds.thisishullandeastriding.co.uk/ThisIsClassifieds/www/default.aspx?p24=GeneralClassifieds&p25=GeneralClassifieds&p28=THISISHULL#QUICKJUMP_000006
With the HDM readership falling through the floor, advertising revenues slumping - apart from Escort and Massage Parlour adverts, which, btw his pathetic toilet paper replacement happily accepts - they have to try something.... anything...
Mr Meehan: Failed in Exeter, failed in Hull. Is there anywhere you can't fail? Probably not....
AC - obviously.
Dose anyone know roughly how man pages each copy of the HDM has?
I'm trying to work out if it will be cheaper for me to subscribe to it then to pay 45p for four Tesco Value toilet rolls, seeing as the only thing that 'newspaper' is good for is smearing with poo. Oh no, hang on a sec, smearing is something they already do to their competition and people they don't like isint it, silly me!
What a bunch of ass-wipes! <-- hahaha! Get it! The HDM would probably employ me to write funny headlines/make up the news, if it wasn't for the fact I think they are a bunch of scum!