When debates are had on free speech, very few are in favour of such an unfettered right.
One regular example is not being allowed in a crowded theatre to shout “fire!”
Similarly, in the midst of global health emergency-for the avoidance of doubt, we are in one RIGHT NOW-then, there should be a strong demarcation between opinion and fact.
Essentially, if you are not qualified in these matters, then you should maintain a polite silence.
On this day one year ago, the man who breathlessly told the world about a billionaire called Craig Whyte appeared to have an opinion on epidemiological matters.
Normally, his learned views are on such weighty matters as who scored the goal or who was offside.
It’s hardly of global significance.
However, misinformation in a pandemic is no laughing matter.
As of today, the UK has the highest death toll from Covid in Europe.
Later on, Mr Jackson admitted that his tweet on this day last year apropos Covid19 was “utter stupidity”.
It was a rare moment of insight from him.
Most of the time, his “utter stupidity” just adds to the entertaining froth of what passes for journalism on Planet Fitba and no harm done.
I was reminded of this last night when I watched a favourite old movie Kind Hearts and Coronets.
For the uninitiated, it is a 1949 British black comedy about an aristocratic family.
Highly recommended.
One of the main characters is Louis Mazzini, played by the brilliant Denis Price.
He observed that:
The D’Ascoynes certainly appear to have accorded with the tradition of the landed gentry and sent the fool of the family into the church.
That meant there was a place to put cognitively challenged but entitled male offspring where he couldn’t do any real damage.
So it is with sports desks at newspapers as, for the most part, they’re not dealing with anything of any great substance.
The sad reality dear reader is that they present as a rather limited bunch.
On the exceedingly rare occasions that I’ve been close to them, I have never felt moved to re-visit the Miliband–Poulantzas debate with the press box chaps.
I also rather suspect if I mentioned Herbert Marcuse’s name, they would want to know if he was moving to Sevco in the summer!
Actually, I find them rather one dimensional.
In my opinion, Mr Jackson should stick to corner kicks and other intellectually strenuous matters.
His Tweet one year ago rather proves that.
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I hope that mr fckn Gerrard is happy now
and maybe just maybe that he feels some remorse for his part in helping to spread the virus in Glasgow
But no , celebrating sevcos 1st major achievement was more important to him
The prick
We have our own fair share of gobshites masquerading as journalists here in Ireland, you only have to look at
Paul Dollery at the Journal.ie whom ran with a story today that the liquidated club, Rangers, won the Scottish premiership after a 10 year wait.
Opinions are like A holes, everyone has one and yours is no more valid than anyone else’s. No one is disputing there is a pandemic, what is disputed is the science being used to commit imprisonment for millions of people. NOT all scientists agree this is as deadly as the government and Msm would have us believe. Never before has the healthy been quarantined.
In the first instance when no one knew just how bad this would be, a lock down was right and sensible. Now however the information being passed down by the media is flawed and not true.
They quote every night about Covid deaths, BUT not all deaths being quoted are due to Covid. Yes people have died WITH Covid and generally more due to underlying complications. There are very few that have died DUE solely to Covid and no other reason.
They quote deaths 28 days AFTER a positive test, yet you can go about you regular business after self isolating for 10 days. WHY the extra 18 days?
Medical science has not been praised due to irradiating Heart failure or strokes yet there doesn’t appear to have been any deaths due to these diseases reported each night.
Deaths due to Covid are currently 0.013% of the world’s population, figures so small there are practically irrelevant.
All deaths are devastating to relatives and friends but that doesn’t mean they won’t happen no one lives forever and if the truth about Covid deaths were reported people would be able to make their own minds up about how dangerous this flu really is.
People need to use more than one outlet for their information and stop being hoodwinked by a dishonest government/Msm.
If Covid is playing ANY part in their death, no matter how small, the lock down is justified.
I have family members on both sides of the Atlantic who have had this awful disease. Thankfully they all survived, although two WERE gravely ill for a while, and even now months later have not fully recovered.
My brother-in-law has worked, on and off, in IC and trauma units for many years and as a general rule only sick or badly injured kids “get to him”. I have known him for almost 30 years and I have NEVER seen him as shaken and distressed as he was when he came home after his first shift in IC with covid patients.
The misinformation you write about is being spread by conspiracy theory nut cases like you. This disease IS real and is awful and I strongly suspect will have long lasting health implications for many who were unfortunate enough to suffer from it. The USA has lost more people to it than they have in every military conflict the nation has ever been involved in combined.
If arseholes with opinions bother you, take a right good look in a mirror and then give yourself a hard slap. I doubt if it will knock any sense into you.
Oh my – yet another social media scientist specialising in Covid…
Kieth ‘ I love rainjurs’ Jackson is one of the worst examples of the Puritan Press to hit the broadsheets since Alex Cameron . The Entitled Brigade have no shame in their biased approach to journalism , as we can see from the use of the number 55 , when in reality it should be number one … Jackson is a weed , he only rears his head to praise ra peepul or to denigrate Celtic FC which are the Catholics to his type of person….
Alec Guinness played the role of all the murdered victims. Smashing movie id suggest. Jackson would be more of a ‘placeman’ in D’Gascoyne eyes should the need for a weasel, lamb guzzling rat arise.
Cheers
“…passes for journalism” hahahaha
Not one Scottish football journalist of our time shall have their name listed on the right side of history in the future,not one,even the best of them have fallen significantly short.
* Shame on them all.
Celtic Love SEVC0rangers
Ah! Poulantzas—-or Nicos as, having nodding acquaintance with his work, I fondly call him. For the uninitiated, he was a Greek Marxist. And as all Marxists see the state as being that institution which referees the perennial fight between capital and labour—–always ensuring that capital tends to come out marginally ahead—-Nicos saw the EU as performing that role in a world where capital had become global, and beyond the control of the nation state. That has always made sense to me, hence my disappointment over Brexit. But time will tell if my disappointment is justified.
I’ve always admired George Galloway. In fact there was a time when I was often mistaken for him, as the following examples will illustrate. I was at a Labour Party do, once, and a woman actually started speaking to me and calling me ‘George’. Some years later in the BBC canteen (Glasgow), I noticed Kirsty Wark constantly looking in my direction. It took some seconds for me to disabuse myself of the notion that Kirsty had taken a fancy to me, and instead realise that she thought I was ‘he’. Some years after that I was having an agreeable lunch in The Ivy, a London eatery much frequented by luvvies and media folk. Again, I noticed I had the attention of a fellow diner who sat some distance away. It was he of the Dodgy Dossier, and the blood-stained hands, Mr Alister Campbell. I could only assume that since my table manners are impeccable , he had some other reason for so rudely staring, and again it dawned on me. He thinks I am George. But the likeness no longer holds as I’ve worn somewhat better than George, and have no need of a ‘soft hat’ to cover what I can only assume is a bald, or balding, pate.
I still admire him, in the main, but could not understand his pro-Brexit stance. He seemed to be saying that the EU was an undemocratic capitalist club. And of course he’s right. But then, remembering Nicos, it nevertheless seemed to me to be a case of better in than out, and that for all its flaws the EU would ensure that some crumbs would fall from capital’s table, in the form of social programmes and worker’s rights. But as we’re out now, we can only hope that Bojo will give us a flourishing democracy wherein capital will be held at bay and the workers will get a fair shake—–like the proposed one percent pay rise about to be lavished on those NHS heroes we so recently applauded
The only time I ever bought The Daily Mail was when Kind Hearts & Coronets was freebie. That and Passport to Pimlico are two of the funniest films in British Movie History.
“The Lady Killers”, is right up there as well.
I really hope you don’t subscribe to the “yell fire in a theatre” nonsense, and if tou do that you’re aware of the history behind it.
While I agree that Keith Jackson should probably remain silent on most matters, I worry that you are about to call for silencing of opinions that go against the official narrative. That is an Empire State building of steps too far.
Fair points phil regarding the fool at the record . Do you think that the blue horde’and players knickers were in a twist when they recklessly celebrated their 1st title ? Me neither, Scotland’s shame
Jackson a gobshite of the highest order 😬
A bit harsh on gobshites! Gobshites have got enough problems without lumbering them with him.