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<\/p>\nSocial media does have a lot going for it.<\/p>\n
As the concept of instant international communication allows for interaction with, well, anyone who will talk back to you it can be beneficial to all. You can interact with people all over the world, safe in the knowledge that they ain’t never gonna turn up on your doorstep and try to borrow a tenner.<\/p>\n
And if they turn out to talk mostly shite, you can simply disengage and not have to bother with them again, instead of , as in the real world, sending you mates into a pub first to make sure they aren’t there.<\/p>\n
Until it all turns nasty.<\/p>\n
You see, whilst the majority of people who use Twitter, the 140 character instant messaging \/public announcement media, are pretty much normal and would have no real problem in putting on a jacket and meeting you in a bar for a chat to save all the fiddling about with buttons, there are a few who can be quite nasty.<\/p>\n
I’ve lost count of the times I’ve been called names, deemed to be ignorant, threatened , had doubts cast on my parentage and generally made to feel uncomfortable, and its just as bad on twitter.<\/p>\n
Except there’s a nasty, horrible side to the twitter abuse. Those dishing it out would never do it in person, or at least not if they weren’t a safe distance away. so that kind of gives their somewhat limited imagination and lack of social skills , in their minds at least, the chance to abuse and genuinely \u00a0upset some people to the etent where it affects their everyday life.<\/p>\n
Getting on the bus, going into a shop or even just turning around to lock your front door can become a bit of an ordeal.<\/p>\n
Those who dish out the abuse do not have the imagination to understand how it affects their victim, but then again , that hadn’t occured to them. for them it’s merely schoolyard abuse, a bit of name calling that they see as banter, quite simply because their intelligence doesn’t go beyond showing their equally under evolved mate just exactly how they put someone in their place.<\/p>\n
Thats why it kind of sickens me that when journalists such as -okay, exactly as Angela Haggerty and more recently Jane Hamilton and Rachel Lynch feel they have to step away from the media, and involve the police, not because they are afraid, but because there is always the outside chance that some fucking oddball, who quite possibly sees social media interaction as a window into their lives, and when he disagrees with something they say, he might take it that step further.<\/p>\n
Unrealistic ?<\/p>\n
Maybe ?<\/p>\n
Would you take the chance if you were getting this abuse ?<\/p>\n
No, you wouldn’t.<\/p>\n
Two of the three , Hamilton and Lynch, have withdrawn from Twitter.<\/p>\n
Lynch made it official, and we wish her all the best in hunting down the bullies who have threatened her.<\/p>\n
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Hamilton, of course, can count on the support of her colleagues in the Scottish press.<\/p>\n
You know what, I’m not even going to go there.<\/p>\n
I get the feeling, and I may be wrong, that those Alpha Males in the \u00a0Scottish SMSM espcially, are just glad that its not them in the firing line. Little knowing nods exchanged by the big water jug near the toilets, little smiles between themselves that they knew this is what would happen if the lass went public and told the truth.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Hey, didn’t they even “warn” \u00a0 them …??<\/strong><\/p>\n Know what, if those spineless bastards-there goes my job in the MSM- had actually told it like it was from day one-that their club was \u00a0dead and that guy who served us up with lamb dinners killed it-then each of those ladies \u00a0mentioned \u00a0above would not have had to endure the shite they have had to over the last few days.<\/p>\n They only had to cite this example…<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Nobody in Darlignton, as far as i know, has threatened any journalist who reported on that….<\/p>\n Or at the very least, could the papers and radio have not \u00a0stuck to the story that \u00a0of them ran with when the old club was liquidated-key word here- instead of the Lazarian theory of Resurrection that took over the narrative as soon as some in high places realised they might get their fingers burned in the resulting firestorm.<\/p>\n Yes, I know you may have come here to read about Celtic, and I had originally planned to make up some transfer rumours, or maybe hint at a scandal or two, but then, in a stream of consciousness I got carried away again.<\/p>\n But there is a wider issue here, and as the adverts placed by the Resolution 12 guys begin this particular phase of the battle for transparency and trust in the Scottish game, how many of those lily livered copy blotters in the SMSM will feture the story ?<\/p>\n How many of them will support their colleagues who have been hounded by telling the truth-or even by asking fucking questions ?<\/p>\n None of them.<\/p>\n How many words swill be written on the subject ?<\/p>\n How many radio hours, or even dynamic and thrusting television interviews ?<\/p>\n The square root of fuck all, as usual.<\/p>\n An occasional piece in a national paper, usually just to appease a public which does demand answers doesn’t count, not if there’s no follow up.<\/p>\n Is there no follow up because over lunch those writing it discussed it with their subjects and assured them it was merely a nod to the public to try to maintain a wee bit credibilty ?<\/p>\n You see, by failing to condemn the behaviour of this section of society, by refusing to challenge their behaviour and above all appearing to condone and accept it, the SMSM have allowed the cancer to spread. Putting a little bit oif ointment on something as virulent as this might ease it for a while, but if its not completely eradicated it just comes back stronger.<\/p>\n It should have been cut out completely in 2012, or at the very least treated properly and completely cleansed to get rid of the festering sore that was evident to all.<\/p>\n Those fuckwits who abused the ladies probably \u00a0don’t feel they have done anything more than indulged in a little harmless banter. Thier intelligence won’t allow them to see what they have done. They’re still getting used to the delights of operational opposing thumbs.<\/p>\n The more serious accusations, the threats to safety are an escalation of all that, but have to be taken seriously, and dealt with accordingly, nonetheless.<\/p>\n Of course, none of this, or certainly a lot less of this , would be happening if those gutless bastards who pretend to be reporters had done their job properly in the first place.<\/p>\n It’s not too late you know….or was Churchill right, are the hacks just hoping the hordes will devour them last ?<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/media\/Cj2CcnWXIAAgucE.jpg\")
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