Posts by Kracklite
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This is after The Herald published a column in which Bob Jones bragged of driving someone to suicide as click bait and to get advertising revenue.
It isn't just a rag, it isn't just hypocritical, it isn't just cynical; it is inhuman.
Anyone who gives them money by buying copies or purchasing advertising is complicit.
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Hard News: Poor Choices, in reply to thegirlstefan,
Obscene. Growing older, self-mutilation... and now partying and childlessness. Is there no depth to which The Herald won't sink?
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Hard News: Poor Choices, in reply to Jack Cottrell,
No, I'm not going to yell at you; instead I thank you.
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Can we please make this thread a discussion about the real issue instead of etiquette?
I'm sorry if that's a threadjack, but I've lost and almost lost loved ones to suicide and I really feel that we need to look at how that is dealt with and what support can be given. Talk about twitter seems offensively trivial in this context.
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Hard News: Poor Choices, in reply to Jack Cottrell,
The analogy for depression I've used often is riding a bicycle with skewed handlebars. You can ride in a straight line, but every yard requires a conscious effort to aim out of the gutter. Give up for a moment and that's where you end up. Thankfully I've never seriously contemplated suicide, but I can understand that those who have committed suicide gave up not because of their depression in one instant, but because of their exhaustion with continually fighting against that skew.
Hill-Cone's column is simply incredible, opportunistic narcissism. I've no sympathy for her at all.
And the Herald, after Bob Jones bragged of driving a man to suicide says that there is something very ugly infecting the Herald editorship.
(Sorry, suicide is a trigger issue with me. Seen too much of it)
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Hard News: We need to talk about Len, in reply to Danielle,
I lost a family member to suicide. That evil sack of shit Jones thinks that it's funny, and the Herald thinks that it's profitable. If you read that rag, ask what you're paying for.
PSA: I’ve actually found it’s pretty easy to write a protest letter and drink a latte at the same time.
Good, I hope that you've done so. After his excuses for rapists and now his gloating over driving someone to suicide (I don't know if he really did, but he likes to think so), I (don't, I really, really don't) look forward to The Herald deciding that his views on the Holocaust are also going to be clickbait and a money-spinner.
The Herald's "moral crusades" mean a lot less when they try to make money out of this sort of vileness.
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If you can tear yourself away from you lattes, here's a description of Jones' revolting, necrophile column, by the way:
http://thedailyblog.co.nz/2013/12/17/bob-jones-snuff-column-in-todays-herald/
Remember, someone on The Herald's editorial team thought that this would be a revenue earner. Do you want to keep paying them?
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Hard News: Narcissists and bullies, in reply to Just thinking,
"It can't happen here". How many times do we hear that? It's not just the corruption, but the cover-up that is the problem, which is also corruption. It's been under Marshall's watch and the buck stops at his desk. Did he know, and if he didn't, why not?
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Sorry to barge in, I'm not a nice person as you all know, but The Herald has been truly evil.
Here's something Queen of Thorns has posted on her awfully déclassé blog and which you should pay attention to.
Bob Jones is not simply an amusing curmudgeon, he is evil and The Herald profits from him:
Here’s what I’ve posted on The Standard and my Facebook page – please feel free to spread it as far as you like. The Herald has really passed a moral line with this – and clearly, they know it.
This is outrageous. If you have a subscription to The Herald you should cancel it immediately.
A family member of mine committed suicide and I can tell you that it's no joke as Jones and The Herald think that it is.
Here is the text of a post I have made to a well-known blog. Please pass it on. This really needs to be spread. The Herald is allowing its columnists to incite suicide and has such lax moral consciousness that it only belatedly realises that it may expose them to prosecution.
Boycott The Herald!
Queen of Thorns has helpfully exposed just how vile and mercenary Granny can be – see
The Herald published a column by “Sir” Bob Jones in which he boasted of driving a man to suicide and only lately admitted that they might have made a boo-boo.
There is this address:
http://www.presscouncil.org.nz/complain.php
Here’s my letter to the editor. Feel free to make use of any elements you like in telling the editors just how you feel. Do not let them get away with their crime!
I know that this won’t be printed because I use the word \\”fucking\\” in the header, though you’re happy to profit from someone boasting of the crime of successfully exhorting someone to commit suicide.
You permitted Bob Jones, who’s already excused rape, to confess to – no, boast of – a crime resulting in someone’s death in order to make a profit and then issued the limp apology \\”We apologise that the original column caused offence to some readers.\\” because anything honest would have you facing prosecution.
Someone with authority saw that column and decided that it was going to be a money-earner. Are they still being rewarded for their judgement, are they still on the payroll?
You must be so proud of yourselves. Just imagine how many page views you gained – the shareholders will be delighted, I’m sure!
You have to be the most revolting publication in New Zealand if you want to profit from this.
Do you know why I don’t pay money to buy the Herald? It doesn’t absorb well, it isn’t neatly perforated in small sections, it has all of this pointless ink on it and it doesn’t come in rolls.
Are you proud of yourself, are you really?
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Hard News: Mandela, in reply to Morrissey Breen,
Yes, of the left, Craig is a good and worthy critic and people should listen to him. Of the right, well, he tends to pull his punches...
I'm sorry Russell, but "it's a nice day" is really a cop out. Nelson Mandela's memory is a serious matter, not an occasion for ritualistic platitudes. You opened a Pandora's box that needed to have been opened and it's too late to close it now.
Goodbye.