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It’s a Murdoch backed rag that wouldn’t know real news or real reporting if it hit them in the face. It’s marginally better than the Daily Fail in that it manages to be less rabid AND that the Daily Frail still preserves the pretence that it’s a newspaper. The Sun seems to have given up pretending that its tabloid mess is anything approaching a new source.
Gordon Brown sent a hand written letter of condolence to Mrs Jacqui Janes about the death of her son, Guardsman Jamie Janes in Afghanistan. Frankly that is a mark of sensitivity that many seem to have forgotten - how many politicians send our hand written letters of condolence to the families of their dead servicemen?
In this letter, he made spelling errors. Mrs. Janes was understandably upset though I understand she has accepted Gordon Brown’s apology. I have every sympathy for her, though her taping Gordon Brown’s telephoned apology to sell to the Sun sits very uneasily with me. Very uneasily indeed.
The Sun piled on. Screamed about how insensitive he was, how cruel and heartless and thoriyghly exploiting this poor woman’s grief to the very limit of possibility. They said his ‘untidy’ and ‘badly spelt’ letter shows his disrespect for the armed forces
Right. Now can we step back here and THINK for 5 damn seconds?!
Gordon Brown is blind in one eye. He is has extremely poor vision in the other. He writes with a hugely thick marker pen because it’s the only way he can read his own writing (and despite this he still personally wrote a letter of condolence - that is not disrespectful. A near blind man is taking the time and effort to send personal hand-written letters to the bereaved). He wrote these letters privately. Not public, not in front of the press. Not for PR or votes.
I don’t like Gordon Brown. I am not a fan of his or the Labour Party. But dog-piling a NEAR BLIND MAN for a SPELLING MISTAKE?! Whining about his HANDWRITING? Ye gods that’s low.
Gordon Brown sent a hand written letter of condolence to Mrs Jacqui Janes about the death of her son, Guardsman Jamie Janes in Afghanistan. Frankly that is a mark of sensitivity that many seem to have forgotten - how many politicians send our hand written letters of condolence to the families of their dead servicemen?
In this letter, he made spelling errors. Mrs. Janes was understandably upset though I understand she has accepted Gordon Brown’s apology. I have every sympathy for her, though her taping Gordon Brown’s telephoned apology to sell to the Sun sits very uneasily with me. Very uneasily indeed.
The Sun piled on. Screamed about how insensitive he was, how cruel and heartless and thoriyghly exploiting this poor woman’s grief to the very limit of possibility. They said his ‘untidy’ and ‘badly spelt’ letter shows his disrespect for the armed forces
Right. Now can we step back here and THINK for 5 damn seconds?!
Gordon Brown is blind in one eye. He is has extremely poor vision in the other. He writes with a hugely thick marker pen because it’s the only way he can read his own writing (and despite this he still personally wrote a letter of condolence - that is not disrespectful. A near blind man is taking the time and effort to send personal hand-written letters to the bereaved). He wrote these letters privately. Not public, not in front of the press. Not for PR or votes.
I don’t like Gordon Brown. I am not a fan of his or the Labour Party. But dog-piling a NEAR BLIND MAN for a SPELLING MISTAKE?! Whining about his HANDWRITING? Ye gods that’s low.