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Pride's Purge
Personal blog · tompride.wordpress.compoliticsculture
Pride's Purge is a personal blog at tompride.wordpress.com about politics and culture. Since 2013, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times. The last post was in 2019, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (6) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link this blog as examples of media coverage and political reversals, such as a politician's changed stance on the EU debate, the Daily Mail's reliability, and BBC coverage. The posts are cited as evidence.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 6 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
an irreverent look at UK politics
Most-linked posts?
- /2014/01/16/photo-of-mark-duggan-at-daughters-funeral-cropped-to-paint-him-as-a-gangster/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-08-13
What Hacker News says?
> Funny how he changed his mind so quickly. Politicians being politicians. Here's Borris before and now. https://tompride.wordpress.com/2016/05/28/the-great-eu-debat...
Comment linking /2016/05/28/the-great-eu-debate-boris-johnson-vs-boris-johnson/
on “In poor neighborhoods, McDonald’s have become de-facto community centers”Submitted How 3UK are bringing Chinese-style political censorship of web to UK as a story · 1 points
HN discussionThere's a possible darker side to this, of course. Today, the following story -- regarding an ex-member of the British Cabinet and a paedophile network -- started gaining a lot of traction in the UK, mainly because there are an increasing number of Members of Parliament (MPs) demanding an inquiry[0]: http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/jul/02/lord-brittan... The story itself has been around for decades. Coincid…
Comment linking /2014/07/02/google-searches-for-leon-brittan-and-pie-censored-after-cease-and-desist-notice/
on “Why has Google cast me into oblivion?”> Minor thought : this leak is still a pretty big deal. But it feels like wikileaks is the wrong place for this - like the main media organisations should have already got their investigatory acts together and made wiki leaks irrelevant. > Just wondering ... Funny you should mention that today: http://tompride.wordpress.com/2014/06/21/bbc-and-press-ignor...
Comment linking /2014/06/21/bbc-and-press-ignore-massive-demonstration-against-austerity-in-london/
on “Secret Trade in Services Agreement (TISA) – Financial Services Annex”Despite appearing the New Zealand Herald, the story comes with a byline from the Daily Mail, which, for a story related to terrorism, reduces its credibility to zero. To pick an example from today: http://tompride.wordpress.com/2014/07/06/daily-mail-journali...
Comment linking /2014/07/06/daily-mail-journalist-busted-posing-as-muslim-extremist-to-stir-up-hatred/
on “Uncharged phones, laptops to be banned on US-bound flights”The phenomenon referenced is real (it doesn't apply to Trayvon Martin, but it does to George Zimmerman); someone downthread provided this example: http://tompride.wordpress.com/2014/01/16/photo-of-mark-dugga... , and Time magazine infamously darkened OJ Simpson's mugshot ( http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoax/photo_database/image/dark... ). It's definitely true that the media purposely uses hilariously biased imagery,…
Comment linking /2014/01/16/photo-of-mark-duggan-at-daughters-funeral-cropped-to-paint-him-as-a-gangster/
on “IfTheyGunnedMeDown calls out media portrayals of black youth”Doesn't matter how carefully you edit, if folk want to paint a narrative about you they will find something and alter it to fit - http://tompride.wordpress.com/2014/01/16/photo-of-mark-dugga...
Comment linking /2014/01/16/photo-of-mark-duggan-at-daughters-funeral-cropped-to-paint-him-as-a-gangster/
on “IfTheyGunnedMeDown calls out media portrayals of black youth”
