I finally found a journalism topic related to the Higella story! At last!
Wow this is a huge story to cover as literally everyone’s weighing in on it. It was only a matter of time but the Higella fraud/drug case is finally featuring in my Metroblog. Let me just say to begin with its not my intention to slander anyone but a lot of famous people have said really dubious things not realising the connotations and…well everyone’s looking silly and I’m here to rip the guts out of a story and plaster them across my blog so I’m going to do just that. Unfortunately for you though the interesting bit for me has barely anything to do with Higella herself and what she may or may not have done and we have a few other stories to go over to get there, mostly politics related (I apologise in advance).
So yeah: In the wake of the Daily Mail snooping around and finding out “holy shit, Ed Milliband’s Dad had left wing beliefs? That means we can go on about how he thought it was nice and happy that people died in gulags under Stalin and how he liked to step on puppies, Red Ed Milliband likes communists!”and tried to start a smear campaign that humongously backfired for them. Since that happened, some interesting smear campaigns based on actual recent events have arisen around his immediate rival, our PM David Cameron, and its much less the media’s fault as it is Cameron’s fault himself.
I don’t know what’s up with David Cameron lately, maybe his childminders are away on holiday. He was part of the happy selfie at Nelson Mandela’s funeral, and now he says “I’m on team Nigella” referring to the fraud case regarding Nigella Lawson and whether she’s a coke addict……..you do know you technically just endorsed cocaine there, right David? Am I wrong here? She did admit she did cocaine to get over her divorce and allegedly did illegal stuff, so saying you’re on Team Nigella technically means “I believe cocaine is a viable way of dealing with personal problems” says British Prime Minister David Cameron. Wow. Fucking Wow is that a cock up.
Then I saw this in the Metro:
Okay, so a high court judge has ruled that we should ignore David Cameron….okay, yes I know not really but that’s what you’re implying by leading with that headline and the way that article’s been written (and by the way its so clear his aides were phoning up papers late at night begging and waving chequebooks for this story to be printed very small).
Holy shit would that make an awesome campaign poster for any opposing party, wouldn’t it? Labour, Liberal, anyone could have a poster that would look like that
So far as smear campaigns go, its weird how the subject of this theoretical one that could start about our PM’s has had so much work done for it before we start out. And anyone taking anything out of context and slandering can get out of it because language is so easily interpreted. I mean yes, David Cameron probably doesn’t endorse cocaine as a method of dealing with personal problems, though Nigella seems to and thinks that that’s a viable excuse to do class A drugs a few times….which our Prime Minister agrees with….and now a jury’s been told by a judge they should ignore our country’s leader. Yeah, clarity is something our language is severely lacking in. We all know I’m taking things to mean more than I do but when you actually say this chain of events out loud, doesn’t sound great does it? Y’know, unless you’re massively in favour of perscribing cocaine to people with personal problems which some of you may be…..I wouldn’t vote for you though….mind you I wasn’t planning on voting for David Cameron regardless of his endorsement of a TV chef who did cocaine in order to alieve herself of her personal problems.
So yeah, in short, this entire story really just teaches us that the English language can be kind of shit and get a lot of people in trouble for not being able to convey a point. I was mostly inspired to realise this when I saw the headline, cackled insanely then realised it actually meant fuck all. I’m still bitter. Still if someone wants to go on a messageboard and lie and say they knew David Cameron at Cambridge and he did mounds and mounds of the stuff, it’d be a laugh so feel free.
Happy weekend everyone.
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