Useless Local Media!

With the bright shining exception of the Halesowen News and Adrian Goldberg the local media have been totally pathetic in their obsequiousness to the Labour Party in Sandwell and its moronic "Leader" in particular. It is difficult to know whether this is due to partisanship and political bias or due to simple ineptitude. Some insiders tell me of the pressure for resources newsrooms are under so that there is no "proper journalism" any more and a tendency to simply regurgitate press releases without any objective assessment of their veracity.

Even the BBC with all their resources are at it. Witness their media coverage of the Turdmeister twitter scandal last week. The BBC, the Express and Star and the Birmingham Mail all reported the suspension by Twitter of Sandwell Council Leader, [sic] Darren "The Turdmeister" Cooper and gave him a public platform for his ludicrous allegation that he was somehow "a victim" of trolls (without naming any of them).

The media totally ignored all the evidence put forward so far by this blog of Turdy's own very close engagement with NUMEROUS troll accounts but also the actually bullying of individuals by him via his own "personal" twitter account - much of it via his Council-owned iphone.

The BBC, Express and Star and Birmingham Mail all told the tale that Twitter suspended Dimwit Darren's account not because of harassment and intimidation (though I can assure you Twitter have had plenty of complaints about that) but because of his publication of a photo of a private individual in violation of the rules. Don't forget that no-one forced Cooper to display the photograph - he did so of his own free will (and thus displaying once again his appalling lack of judgement).

This is factually correct BUT NONE OF THE SO-CALLED PROFESSIONAL JOURNALISTS WENT ON TO ASK THE BLINDINGLY OBVIOUS QUESTION IE 

WHY

DID TURDY PUBLISH THE PHOTO IN THE FIRST PLACE? The answer, of course, is that he did so to, er, HARASS AND INTIMIDATE the individual concerned.

Had the media organisations (who know the identity of the person being victimised) troubled to look at this blog they would have seen that The Great Helmsman has a long history of harassing that person. Way back in May, 2014 I did a detailed blog about this: "Tweets of The Turdmeister, Part One":

http://thesandwellskidder.blogspot.co.uk/2014/05/tweets-of-turdmeister-part-one.html

What on earth did these journalists imagine Cooper was actually doing????

Incidentally, Cooper was using twitter to attack the same individual in the same vein as recently as 9th February.

The professional journalists (excluding once again the Halesowen News and Adrian G) take great delight in looking down their noses at this blog and some boast that they do not trouble to read it despite the fact that The Skidder has scooped them on numerous stories! How very, er, professional.

Had they bothered to look they would have seen that Turdy (lest we forget - stifles laugh - the Chair of the West Midlands Police and Crime Panel) has "form" for putting covertly-obtained photos on his twitter account in order to harass and intimidate. Here is a second one:

Covertly-obtained photo placed on Twitter by Turdy the same day

For further details professional journalists should read these two posts:

http://thesandwellskidder.blogspot.co.uk/2014/11/ed-milibands-as-weak-as-pss.html
http://thesandwellskidder.blogspot.co.uk/2015/02/labour-council-leader-was-behind-covert.html

It is also shocking that Twitter reinstated Turdy's account so quickly but at least this allowed one of the troll accounts (currently suspended) that Cooper was actively engaging with (another example of his appalling lack of judgement - or worse) to gloat:

         Victim? Don't make me laugh....

(Massive blog on Cooper's bullying coming soon....)

Police fraud team investigating Sandwell Council - DS Wayne Haynes & Team - 0121 251 2175
(THEY ARE ALSO INVESTIGATING THE TROLLS WHICH COOPER IS ENGAGING WITH)

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