Celia Mae Posted June 10, 2015 Report Share Posted June 10, 2015 Have read all the links included and there will be nothing on there to confirm or deny until the 15th when they publish the Broadcast Bulletin. The writer of the email (the creator of the petition) was definitely jumping to conclusions. "10 Jun 2015 - With over 1,000 Ofcom complaints so far, Ofcom will now investigate Kay Burley's interview with Nick Varney." He knows well that most people won't bother following the links and seeing the actual truth on the Ofcom site. What I did notice was that the complaints logged between 02/06 - 08/06 for the interview were 1002, the only number higher was only 21 more and remember that the interview didn't even happen until over halfway through that week... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EC! Posted June 11, 2015 Report Share Posted June 11, 2015 Oh look here is another news story about an Alton towers breakdown that was blown out of proportion!! I knew this would become a regular thing.... http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/jun/11/alton-towers-ride-evacuated-a-week-after-rollercoaster-crash Mysterio Ka 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kerfuffle Posted June 11, 2015 Report Share Posted June 11, 2015 Oh look here is another news story about an Alton towers breakdown that was blown out of proportion!! I knew this would become a regular thing.... Great. The moment the newspapers seem to cut the bullsh*t being put online...The Guardian starts it all over again!!! Why do these guys have to do this to a single theme park just trying to recover from an incident that should never have happened?! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark9 Posted June 11, 2015 Report Share Posted June 11, 2015 I'm glad all these stories of rides being evacuated safely are major news now. It only reinforces the fact that rides at Alton Towers are safe and are run properly. You can just feel it in the Guardian and Mirror stories that they are desperate for something awful to happen. Their sadness that no one fell off to their deaths during an evacuation is almost tangible. OldFarmerDean 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryan Posted June 11, 2015 Report Share Posted June 11, 2015 They do it because people will click and share the articles, even if you think it's a piece of ****, you've clicked the article. The day people stop opening and reading stupid articles, maybe they'll stop printing absolute horse****. MachoMachine, SteveJ, Matt 236 and 3 others 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TraX Posted June 11, 2015 Report Share Posted June 11, 2015 http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/alton-towers-accident-smiler-could-5844062 Now it may be stripped of it's 'world first' record as well! The horrors just keep on coming. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stretchy Posted June 11, 2015 Report Share Posted June 11, 2015 If you scroll down that Mirror article to the photo taken whilst they were on the ride, there are numbers. Underneath it states Victims: (Left to right) Joe Pugh, Leah Washington, Daniel Thorpe and Vicky Balch Having gone to all the effort to label and number and photograph each, they havent even got the order right. But that is about the accuracy I expect from news papers. (By the way. I have vowed, after reading all of the B*****s the papers have written, never to buy a newspaper again. I can only surmise that if they are this accurate with something I know a bit about, then everything else they write is equally 90% error. If I want fiction I will read a book) Kerfuffle 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EdwinOkli Posted June 11, 2015 Report Share Posted June 11, 2015 I still don't understand why constantly naming those on the ride is necessary. It's not really any of our business. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt 236 Posted June 11, 2015 Report Share Posted June 11, 2015 I've just stopped reading the articles as they're all just desperate for attention and to escalate things further. The only time I brought a newspaper recently was so I could claim the free Lego sets. Hopefully in 2016 the Smiler will reopen, resulting in lots of people being geoffted Kerfuffle 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian-S Posted June 11, 2015 Author Report Share Posted June 11, 2015 Haven't bought a paper since the last century. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cal Posted June 11, 2015 Report Share Posted June 11, 2015 http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/alton-towers-accident-two-more-5864073 Both rides are now open. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian-S Posted June 11, 2015 Author Report Share Posted June 11, 2015 Yeah was just going to post that sh*t is hitting the fan on the wife's Facebook over these rides closing for a while. My eyes were so far rolled back in their sockets that I walked into the wall. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt 236 Posted June 11, 2015 Report Share Posted June 11, 2015 Tbh by the way press are going, I'm expecting stories like for a good while unfortunately. On another note, according to ride times, Octonauts is currently closed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cal Posted June 11, 2015 Report Share Posted June 11, 2015 On another note, according to ride times, Octonauts is currently closed. Oh dear, prepare for another article. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian-S Posted June 11, 2015 Author Report Share Posted June 11, 2015 It's already all over facecrap. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cal Posted June 11, 2015 Report Share Posted June 11, 2015 Alton towers commented on someones post on Facebook... Hello, if this is related to Air and Runaway Mine Train - this article is false and the rides remained open, thank you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark9 Posted June 11, 2015 Report Share Posted June 11, 2015 http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/alton-towers-accident-two-more-5864073 Both rides are now open. God imagine if they'd been like that on Airs open day in 2002. They'd be a new article every 10 minutes. JoshC., Matt 236 and EC! 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoshC. Posted June 11, 2015 Report Share Posted June 11, 2015 They do it because people will click and share the articles, even if you think it's a piece of ****, you've clicked the article. The day people stop opening and reading stupid articles, maybe they'll stop printing absolute horse****. If I could like this 100 times I would. Altitude 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian-S Posted June 11, 2015 Author Report Share Posted June 11, 2015 Alton should have said "The articles are incorrect, the rides are open, they were closed temporarily earlier in the day for routine inspections, which happens at some point on most days, and has always done so since the rides were built". People are so dumb they don't realise that the news outlets just copy each others stories, so once one breaks a story about a rollercoaster being evacuated, all the others just copy of them instead of checking the facts first, hence why the dumb**** saying it must be true because ITV reported it, well no **** Sherlock, ITV just copied it from somewhere else, ever thought of that? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AstroDan Posted June 11, 2015 Report Share Posted June 11, 2015 Alton have 1.3m on Facebook. They should post saying that much of the reports are false. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kerfuffle Posted June 11, 2015 Report Share Posted June 11, 2015 ...or they can just sue the lying scumbags. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian-S Posted June 11, 2015 Author Report Share Posted June 11, 2015 'Incorrect' not 'false', false implies the events didn't happen, that the story is a lie, we all know the rides did shut down, just not for very long, so the story is not false, but incorrect, or misleading, but it's not false. It might be splitting hairs to you, but in a Court and to a blood thirsty media amped up on the hysteria of leg chopping rides, there is a massive difference and accusing them of lying about something which most know to be an everyday occurrence (even if you mean to say incorrect but false is a shorter word to use), is not going to do them any favours if this same blood thirsty media pick up on it, imagine the headlines ' Alton Towers covering up daily death trap ride failures'. Merlin have done a great job of media containment up to date, it would be a shame to see them take a major beating over a simple slip of the tounge by one of the web team. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steven G Posted June 11, 2015 Report Share Posted June 11, 2015 Haven't posted on here in 6 years, but have been following this thread carefully just out of interest since the incident. I have just come across this and thought it would be worth posting to make some of you happier! http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/alton-towers-accident-kay-burley-5859900 1,100 complaints to Ofcom on Kay Burleys interview! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cmangi Posted June 12, 2015 Report Share Posted June 12, 2015 There is a certain irony and problem with the way we view life in this country.. Or more, they way the media are controlled and allowed to report on things. The 4 victims in this accident were named ASAP, the injuries have been reported on with little sensitivity to the 4 victims, the friends and the families. The videos were shown as soon as possible, showing their full faces, covered in blood and their screams. Yet a 14 year old boy who has committed attempted murder is not named and gets his face blurred out of photos. I know we all think this has had some poor reporting, but the media in this country is a complete shambles in general!! holtjammy16, Ian-S, Matt 236 and 4 others 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian-S Posted June 12, 2015 Author Report Share Posted June 12, 2015 Yup slightly warped that the law says you cannot name the 14 year old who broke the law, but it's OK to name a crash victim and show their blood soaked face on TV over and over. Mind you I can understand the reporting restrictions on the child all the time he has not been convicted, but I think these reporting restrictions should be lifted once a guilty verdict has come back, it's very rare that they are though. So I guess this is the first day this week, Alton Towers hasn't been on the news round here. Olistjj 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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