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[–] 51 points 10 months ago* (13 children)

Kidnapping is an emotionally loaded term which isn't used in journalism. Makes sense. Edit: nah I'm wrong. They'd use it for the actual crime of kidnapping.

I hate this shit. We need media to call a spoon a spoon.

Call lies, lies. "Misinformation", "inaccuracies" "incorrectly said..." Nah fuck that. Trump lied.

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  • [–] 14 points 10 months ago (10 children)

    Spoon? Is that like a symmetrical, dull, parabolic knife?

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  • [–] 6 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    Someone's never seen a grapefruit spoon

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    In truth, I haven't, but I'm sincerely looking forward to having the nuances of esoteric cutlery and their proscribed use in polite society explained to me, as if in a cotillion class, by someone with the username "prole."

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    Your MOM's dull and parabolic, but not symmetrical!

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago

    Yeah unfortunately while law should mostly exist to protect the vulnerable from the powerful, instead many US laws such as libel exist mostly to allow the powerful to muzzle the vulnerable

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

    Trump's a litigious piece of shit. If he can prove libel, he'll prove libel. BBC (and all news networks, really) need to tread lightly and keep him happy or they will get kneecapped with legal actions. Which, even if they win, and have every reason to win...it's still an expensive and time consuming process, and they still have to tread lightly.

    Meanwhile, advertisers and shareholders get very nervous. Granted, this doesn't apply so much to BBC.

    This is what civil justice has come down to. What's "right" is decided by who can pay lawyers long enough to prove it. Stab each other with plastic forks and see who leaks to death first.

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