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You want horrendously bad journalism? I’ll give you horrendously bad journalism. The Northern Echo:
Tempers flared at an International Women’s Day event in Darlington after the council asked a group to leave over an “anti-trans” leaflet.
Concerns were raised over a Let Women Speak pamphlet that was being circulated at an event at Number Forty, on Skinnergate, on Saturday, March 8.
Darlington Council, which has run the site since 2022, said staff tried to intervene when some of the material at the event was found to be “inflammatory and anti-trans”.
Huh? Wut? Whose tempers flared? What group? Who asked them to leave? What does “over a leaflet” mean? What do the quotation marks on “anti-trans” mean? Concerns were raised by what people? What kind of concerns? How was the pamphlet being circulated? Who was circulating it? At what event? What staff tried to intervene? Some of the material was found to be unapproved by what people???
Even apart from the substance, this is such terrible journalism you have to wonder why they even bother.
Footage shared widely on social media shows the war of words between councillors and groups, with the authority saying they “behaved in a professional manner”.
What groups? What are you talking about you fucking idiots?
No crimes were believed to have been committed and therefore no police response was required. The event concluded with no further issues.
Not once in the entire piece does the “reporter” say what “the event” in question was.
Maybe it is best not to ask about The Event…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnd1jKcfBRE
I was there and can describe what happened. I didn’t see what happened in the backroom with the quite insane council employee,though. I’ve only seen the videos.You can see them too! Proper mental.
My friends @JapanesePolar, @RightNUFC and @FoxyRoxRoxy are the women to ask about this.They are all ridiculously impressive.
I regret not being around here much lately. My condition limits my bandwidth but I do miss this place.
Well we miss you. You have to be careful of that bandwidth though.
Goddamn latsot, I was wondering where you were, I have truly missed you and wish you all the best. Your insights from the UK are appreciated, and your work to help others is above and beyond what many of us do.
To clarify, I do actually know what the Northern Echo is talking about, because I followed events on Saturday. The questions were to point out how astoundingly obfuscating and devoid of information the “reporting” is.