Comments on: NY Tabloid Distorting Shatner – Again

By: Anthony Pascale

Anthony Pascale — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 18:07:28 +0000

brit reader
There is no bias against the UK here. I used to live in the UK and as I remember everyone there thought the tabloids were funny too. Personally I read the FT and the Guardian every day….still do often.

the only people I could possibly offend is people who work for tabloids who are making stuff up….to them I have no appologies

By: a british reader

a british reader — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 17:56:34 +0000

#27, #28 I was agreeing with the substance of what you were saying from a different perspective – that Britain doesn’t have the monopoly on rumours. Again, I did read the subject line, actually even though it was an NY thing Brit tabloids were nevertheless mentioned in the content, and no I neither work for nor read nor buy them.

If you read my #26 post again it should be clearer, regards your questions. You might not agree but thats ok. I don’t really post here so not sure if this is a debating environment (in which case perhaps I should have just messaged the author) or whether you were looking for clarification.

By: Harry Ballz

Harry Ballz — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 05:02:23 +0000

Hey, THX-1138, sounds like someone needs a hug…..c’mere, ya big lug!!!

By: VulcanBabe

VulcanBabe — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 01:42:42 +0000

“It’s worse than that, he’s drunk Jim.”
Heh, that linked article was such BS I can’t believe it hasn’t been taken down yet. Do these people have any sense of propriety? Shatner is a living breathing human being here…and how dare they compare him with Lohan??
And since when is a red face a sign of drunkenness??
Wow, this is infuriating, lol. Poor Shat. >_

By: THX-1138

THX-1138 — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 21:02:01 +0000

Oh yeah, I almost forgot, please to be looking at the headline of this article.

“NY tabloid distorting Shatner–again”

Fair and balanced reporting, I say.

By: THX-1138

THX-1138 — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 20:59:59 +0000

#26
Do you work for a “Brit tabloid”? Why does this offend you so?

BTW please point the “Yank tabloid” out that reports such things as the fresh-out-of-rehab singer that’s going to be Kirk in the new movie or any of the other rumors that are being reported by your native tabloids. Even your fellow countrymen have informed us that the majority of these “newspapers” are drivel not to be given a second look. If it makes you feel better, ALL U.S tabloids are the finest pieces of crap “journalism” to commit ink to paper known to man. They suck. You all don’t have the market cornered on shite reporting, ya’ know

By: a british reader

a british reader — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 17:47:34 +0000

I think there should be a £1 donation to the treasury every time the words ‘brit tabloids’ are used on this site. Its not as though rumour mills are unique to britain, but it does seem as though britain is being singled out in the main articles in a kind of charged way which isn’t pleasant to read.

By: trektacular

trektacular — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 09:31:24 +0000

#24
I don’t think you were too hard on them at all

By: Buckaroohawk

Buckaroohawk — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 07:09:15 +0000

Dennis (#5),

I know I was giving too much credit to hack tabloid writers, editors, etc. Mentioning Murrow in the same breath with them is practically sacrilege. I ask a thousand pardons.

I guess my point was more to what lead the people who concoct such drivel down that road. When I was in college I took English Writing and Journalism classes, but to my recollection there weren’t any “Tabloid Sensationalism 101″ classes in the university catalog.

They couldn’t have actually wanted to be part of such dreck from the beginning, could they? How do make that career choice? It simply boggles my mind, and I know I could never live with myself if I were in their place.

By: Cygnus-X1

Cygnus-X1 — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 05:22:23 +0000

I already knew that the New York Post is a sensationalist, tabloid rag.

I will add the New York Daily News to that list, and, regard it with a similar lack of respect and credence.