Lack Of Investigative Journalism Skills? Or Deliberate Donkey Cover-Up?
The Scotsman used, decades ago, to be a fairly sober, sensible newspaper, but these days, well, not so much.
The ‘journalists’ employed thereon appear to lack the curiosity that ought to be a key characteristic of their trade.
That newspaper is not of enough interest to me to go on about it, but it happened to be the one I came across first, with this odd tale, and I was especially struck by the abject absence of any ‘investigative’ aspect to their reporting…
https://www.scotsman.com/news/politics/general-election/activists-raise-30k-for-more-billboards-highlighting-brexit-hypocrisy-
…on the ‘activists’ who cower behind the label ‘Led By Donkeys’ as they put up anti-Brexit billboards purporting to expose politicians’ inconsistencies on the issue.
Finding quotes from almost any politician that contradict what he or she has previously said, not just about Brexit but about almost anything, is not exactly rocket science.
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What many, if not most, readers must surely want to know is WHO are these ‘activists?’
That word often means people out of work, by choice or mischance, who while away their days stirring up trouble, or slugs on the pay-roll of some ‘Non-Governmental Organisation’ which turns out, on closer inspection…
…to have its ‘NGO’ snout actually government-funded, buried deep in the public purse, whether via local taxes or national taxes or Brussels subsidies that are gouged from tax-payers’ pockets and dispensed to outfits they’d never voluntarily finance.
But these ‘Donkeys’ are a mystery.
They should not be allowed to hide behind a silly name.
Yet all The Scotsman hack who wrote the story can tell us is that they prefer to keep their real identities secret.
Nor is that hack the only one, nor The Scotsman the only media outlet, that fails to do what people expect journalists to do.
I swished through all the Google News items concerning the shy propagandists.
ZILCH!
C’mon.
Somebody must have the journalistic skill to rip away their masks and find out why they choose to skulk in the shadows…
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…while turning spotlights on other people’s ‘mis-speak’ short-comings.
I rather suspect that the names and locations of the perpetrators are in fact already well-known to at least some of the rotten media…
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…but that at least some editors are collaborating in yet another cover-up.
Ollie, 
Wyn Morgan, 
Noreen Paterson, and 5 others are discussing. 
rossrightangle 
Diana 16:24 on January 20, 2019 Permalink |
My thoughts too, there must be something fishy about these people, and the media do not seem interested in looking into them.
I would not be surprised if they are pretty rich, like most of the pro-Brussels side.
Is soros one of their backers?
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Ollie 08:33 on January 22, 2019 Permalink |
I have been watching the BBC news again and every time I do, it makes me think that a lof of these Remainers must be rich, like that idiot in the Euro-Hat we see all the time outside Parliament, on a permanent political holiday.
Senior citizens have all day free to demonstrate like that but this is an able-bodied man in his forties. If he is unemployed, he should be looking for a job.
If he is in honest work, when does he ever do any?
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Mack the Knife 16:55 on January 20, 2019 Permalink |
Something tells me you’re on the right track about these ‘activists’ and that something is the eerie silence in the media about their true identities.
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Vanessa Reilly 18:19 on January 20, 2019 Permalink |
If they are so enthusiastic to have our country kept under foreign rule, why are they so unenthusiastic about telling everyone who they really are?
Might it be that they read history and know what happened to collaborators when the Resistance got hold of them once the war was won.
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Frank Finley 19:03 on January 20, 2019 Permalink |
Isn’t it just amazing,how these fantastic media men can ‘expose’ and ‘probe’ and find ‘leaks’ to undermine all kinds of people they dislike ( or their editors dislike ) but when this happens they draw a blank,or more than likely don’t even try to get to the bottom of this donkey gang.
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Noreen Paterson 22:02 on January 20, 2019 Permalink |
It’s very clear from looking at all the media that have covered this donkey bunch that some reporters have spoken with their spokespeople, so if I were a reporter AT LEAST I would have pushed for an explanation why they are so coy.
The reporters have not being doing their job and that makes me very suspicious.
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Ken Woods 20:37 on January 20, 2019 Permalink |
Love that Gollum picture.
That’s how I imagine them too, all sneaky and sly.
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Wyn Morgan 22:59 on January 20, 2019 Permalink |
As every person commenting has already said, these activists need to be dragged out into daylight so we can see who they are and who is putting them up to this.
Never trust anonymous agitators.
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