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Date Posted: 9/03/09 11:58:35pm
Author: Tom
Subject: Tabloid headlines are they the new gospel?
In reply to: Peter Eveleigh 's message, "fashions and bannings" on 9/03/09 10:33:35pm

>It was banned in state schools in 1986, so cannot have
>been fashionable or generally popular in the years
>immediately prior to that.
>
>What I am saying is that if you were caned 26 years
>ago, it was by then unfashionable.

Flares were unfashionable ten years ago but some folks still wore them. It's interesting that on one hand you highlight the use of punishment in the JA but belittle real life experience? Sort of smells like arranging words to meet your own ends.

>When I went to the press in 1984 and told them that
>rodding was advocated in the JA they got very excited
>about it and front page articles about this and other
>outrages in the JA sold well. They didn't tell me
>rodding was a non-story because it is the fashion
>anyway.

If you had said Noel Stanton's parents sexually abused him they'd have got exited. Excitement is not always aligned with truth. Sensationalism sells papers - a quick look at any day's headlines will prove that!

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>>It was banned in state schools in 1986, so cannot have >>been fashionable or generally popular in the years >>immediately prior to that. >> >>What I am saying is that if you were caned 26 years >>ago, it was by then unfashionable. > >Flares were unfashionable ten years ago but some folks >still wore them. It's interesting that on one hand you >highlight the use of punishment in the JA but belittle >real life experience? Sort of smells like arranging >words to meet your own ends. > >>When I went to the press in 1984 and told them that >>rodding was advocated in the JA they got very excited >>about it and front page articles about this and other >>outrages in the JA sold well. They didn't tell me >>rodding was a non-story because it is the fashion >>anyway. > >If you had said Noel Stanton's parents sexually abused >him they'd have got exited. Excitement is not always >aligned with truth. Sensationalism sells papers - a >quick look at any day's headlines will prove that!
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