Weekly news from Adam Picton
Sunday 29 January 2017
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Sunday 15 January 2017
Weekly news 15
'SOZ SIZ, I WAS SOZZLED' Prince Harry's girlfriend Meghan Markle's half-brother vows to 'seek help' for drinking his drinking problem after his arrest for 'holding gun to lover's head'
Source: The Sun.
Surprisingly, the article seems relatively unbiased as far as the Sun goes however the uses of photo's in the article isn't very flattering toward Thomas Markle Jr. The Sun choose to portray him as a drunkard and a convict in every photo of him. And while this is what the article is surrounded by, it wouldn't hurt to have a normal, family photo of him to show he's a person too, with flaws of course but one's that don't make up his entirety.
Comparing it to the writing though, it's clear whoever wrote this still has a conscious as they decided to still include quotes that helped defend Thomas, such as "He is very sorry and is apologising to everyone. He just needs some time to heal and reflect on life. But he wants to apologise for everything.". It seemed something slipped through the cracks and somebody forgot to fire this writer.
In my opinion, he should definitely be prosecuted but considering that he does appear to be genuinely trying to correct his mistakes, maybe just community service, rehabilitation and no more gun permits if he had one in the first place.
Source: The Sun.
Surprisingly, the article seems relatively unbiased as far as the Sun goes however the uses of photo's in the article isn't very flattering toward Thomas Markle Jr. The Sun choose to portray him as a drunkard and a convict in every photo of him. And while this is what the article is surrounded by, it wouldn't hurt to have a normal, family photo of him to show he's a person too, with flaws of course but one's that don't make up his entirety.
Comparing it to the writing though, it's clear whoever wrote this still has a conscious as they decided to still include quotes that helped defend Thomas, such as "He is very sorry and is apologising to everyone. He just needs some time to heal and reflect on life. But he wants to apologise for everything.". It seemed something slipped through the cracks and somebody forgot to fire this writer.
In my opinion, he should definitely be prosecuted but considering that he does appear to be genuinely trying to correct his mistakes, maybe just community service, rehabilitation and no more gun permits if he had one in the first place.
Sunday 8 January 2017
Weekly News 14
'DUDE...I'M RIGHT HERE' Cocky fugitive taunts cops hunting for him by changing Facebook profile picture to Where's Wally - with his own face superimposed on it.
Source: The Sun
A 30 year old professional Jockey from Middlesbrough is somehow managing to evade the police, all the while still using social media and keeping in contact with many friends and family. JJ MecMenamin is the offender of many driving offences and has been taunting the police department using social media. He even said that at one point he was close enough to see a policeman hunting for him struggling to climb over the fence and considered offering to "give him a hand".
Comparing this story to one about the same man posted by the Telegraph, there was not much differences but the Telegraph seemed to have a bit more information on the situation. They additionally reported that he had escaped to Leeds and he was originally on bail but breached his conditions when he refused to attend court.
In my opinion, this story is just a testament to how easy the police examinations must be. This man has no training or experience in escaping the law or staying hidden and considering that he's still in contact with a lot of people who must know where he is, he mustn't be trying very hard yet the police still can't manage to find him. He must have a phone to be using Snapchat so simply getting his phone number could help track him. Maybe it's a lot harder than I'm making it out to be but regardless, it shouldn't be taking this much work to find one fugitive. Especially one who looks like this:
Source: The Sun
A 30 year old professional Jockey from Middlesbrough is somehow managing to evade the police, all the while still using social media and keeping in contact with many friends and family. JJ MecMenamin is the offender of many driving offences and has been taunting the police department using social media. He even said that at one point he was close enough to see a policeman hunting for him struggling to climb over the fence and considered offering to "give him a hand".
Comparing this story to one about the same man posted by the Telegraph, there was not much differences but the Telegraph seemed to have a bit more information on the situation. They additionally reported that he had escaped to Leeds and he was originally on bail but breached his conditions when he refused to attend court.
In my opinion, this story is just a testament to how easy the police examinations must be. This man has no training or experience in escaping the law or staying hidden and considering that he's still in contact with a lot of people who must know where he is, he mustn't be trying very hard yet the police still can't manage to find him. He must have a phone to be using Snapchat so simply getting his phone number could help track him. Maybe it's a lot harder than I'm making it out to be but regardless, it shouldn't be taking this much work to find one fugitive. Especially one who looks like this:
Tuesday 3 January 2017
Weekly news 13
SNAPPED IN HALF Shocking moment crocodile breaks keeper's arm in two after biting him and performing a death roll while being teased during show.
Source: The Sun
Representation of Issues
Sumet Thongkhammuan is an entertainer in Thailand for what appears to be some sort of animal show, similar to a circus. After whacking the crocodile on the head with a stick many times, he stuck his arm in the crocodile's mouth to please the crowd. The crocodile then clamped it's jaws shut and as Sumet struggled to retrieve his arm, the crocodile did a 'death roll' and snapped Sumet's arm in two. He was 'lucky to be alive'.
I'm not really sure what to compare this to but the closest thing I can think of is the Cecil the Lion ordeal a year or two ago where a hunter killed a Lion in a national park, which meant it was legally protected, and received exponential amounts of internet hate. He posed and flaunted the Lion's corpse. This is very similar to that situation but in stead of killing it for sport, he was forcing it to live in terrible conditions for entertainment. And what did he expect?
When you get into that sort of line of work, you need to recognize the risk of something like this:
happening to you. It was his own fault, especially since he was allegedly teasing it beforehand and beating it with a stick. In my opinion, animals need to be left alone as far as entertainment goes. Not only are they not as entertaining as they used to be, but now the world's becoming more and more aware to the cruelty of it. Let them go.
Source: The Sun
Representation of Issues
Sumet Thongkhammuan is an entertainer in Thailand for what appears to be some sort of animal show, similar to a circus. After whacking the crocodile on the head with a stick many times, he stuck his arm in the crocodile's mouth to please the crowd. The crocodile then clamped it's jaws shut and as Sumet struggled to retrieve his arm, the crocodile did a 'death roll' and snapped Sumet's arm in two. He was 'lucky to be alive'.
I'm not really sure what to compare this to but the closest thing I can think of is the Cecil the Lion ordeal a year or two ago where a hunter killed a Lion in a national park, which meant it was legally protected, and received exponential amounts of internet hate. He posed and flaunted the Lion's corpse. This is very similar to that situation but in stead of killing it for sport, he was forcing it to live in terrible conditions for entertainment. And what did he expect?
When you get into that sort of line of work, you need to recognize the risk of something like this:
happening to you. It was his own fault, especially since he was allegedly teasing it beforehand and beating it with a stick. In my opinion, animals need to be left alone as far as entertainment goes. Not only are they not as entertaining as they used to be, but now the world's becoming more and more aware to the cruelty of it. Let them go.
Weekly news 12
'Three lives should not be ruined' Young mum who left her ex brain damaged after drunkenly mowing him down in the street walks free because she has a young son.
Source: The Sun
The 20 year old mother who's 4 year old son recently started primary school ran down her ex with no license and no insurance while intoxicated. The victim of this incident, a Dean Heaney, was very badly injured with a punctured lung, brain damage and fractured ribs. He's not been able to work since and due to his brain damage, is finding things very difficult.
And because it's the Sun and a woman is involved, of course it gets racy. Despite the story having nearly nothing to do with sex at all, the images the Sun decided to show of the 20 year old mother were filled with cleavage and seemed like they were intended for private eyes. I think the sun probably did this intentionally to try and make her out into the bad guy. The headline also connotes this. But if we compare this incident to if a male was the one who hit a woman, I imagine there wouldn't be any inappropriate images of the offender. However I'm willing to bet that if we swap the victim's place with a woman, the Sun would have no problem using sexual images of a brain damaged, hospitalized young woman.
In my opinion, the judge made the right decision. If he had put her in jail, she would no longer be able to care for her son and considering that she'd never shown such behavior before and had next to no criminal record, there was no reason to assume she was going to go out and commit another offense. When she left the courtroom, she did give a thumbs up.
And yes. She deserves to get hit by the car she was driving for that. But as the headline says, three lives shouldn't be ruined because of one drunk driving incident that was out of character and the offender was supposedly extremely guilty about and would turn back time if she could.
Source: The Sun
The 20 year old mother who's 4 year old son recently started primary school ran down her ex with no license and no insurance while intoxicated. The victim of this incident, a Dean Heaney, was very badly injured with a punctured lung, brain damage and fractured ribs. He's not been able to work since and due to his brain damage, is finding things very difficult.
And because it's the Sun and a woman is involved, of course it gets racy. Despite the story having nearly nothing to do with sex at all, the images the Sun decided to show of the 20 year old mother were filled with cleavage and seemed like they were intended for private eyes. I think the sun probably did this intentionally to try and make her out into the bad guy. The headline also connotes this. But if we compare this incident to if a male was the one who hit a woman, I imagine there wouldn't be any inappropriate images of the offender. However I'm willing to bet that if we swap the victim's place with a woman, the Sun would have no problem using sexual images of a brain damaged, hospitalized young woman.
In my opinion, the judge made the right decision. If he had put her in jail, she would no longer be able to care for her son and considering that she'd never shown such behavior before and had next to no criminal record, there was no reason to assume she was going to go out and commit another offense. When she left the courtroom, she did give a thumbs up.
And yes. She deserves to get hit by the car she was driving for that. But as the headline says, three lives shouldn't be ruined because of one drunk driving incident that was out of character and the offender was supposedly extremely guilty about and would turn back time if she could.
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