Did anyone read this article in The Times yesterday on the London bombings?

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I think it is spot on, what do you think? It's a bit long.

here it is

no more thereor thna when the ira was at its peak imo

no more terror

"Hmm bet londoners woudln't do that [i.e. show solidarity - my italics] if it happened eleswhere"

that's a long way from saying the uk media is london centric (which it is). that reads like "londoners don't give a when bad things happen other places". that's not a critique of the media that's a sweeping generalisation about millions of people.

my comment in &context was in response to this post

"I want to demonstrate solidarity with Londoners."

well it my opinion and youll ahev to lump it

I was caught up in the IRA bomb in Mcr in 1996 and it was anyone with an Irish accent that got looked at then. Same with Muslims now.

ff - you said that us Londoners wouldn't show solidarity if it happened in another city.

The media are covering it in great detail because it is a terrorist attack.

Alongside that, Londoners are actually getting on with life...you only have to see HunkerMunkers thread to see that londoners are v well aware that in the scale of things the impact has been less than catastrophic (excpet for the poor individual families who have borne the brunt).

I think it was deeply insulting to say that Londoners wouldn't have felt solidarity and sympathy for the occupants of other cities if it had happened there.

well tough

and blu htink its naiive to think it isnt conveninet fo hthe media to cover this

I think we were all concerned at the Madrid bombings. Media coverage was at a similar level too.

yes but not at this level

ff think your usually amusing cynicism is misplaced on this one. I would do the same wherever it happened.

Al Quada and its groups are targeting the whole of the Western world, look at 9/11 thousands died and the Madrid bombs. I just do not think this can be compared to the IRA (but admit to not knowing much about IRA at the height of it all as I was quite young then)

The IRA gave warnings, even though in Mcr everyone went the wrong way.

yeah liekt he deliberately misleading omagh bombing warning

I honestly don't think it's being covered in detail because it happened outside the jounalists offices, no!

Did we have lots and lots of detailed coverage of the WTC attacks because it was a nice holiday for the journalists and they could nip into Bloomingdales in between reports, perhaps?

If it happened wh=ere you live, i think you would have press aplenty on your doorstep.

Not comparing the IRA to Al Qaeda. But you suggest all Muslims and immigrants should not be allowed to live in Britain because 4 'Muslim' bombers have killed 50 people. I wondered if you thought Irish people should have been denied access to the country during the IRA bombing campaigns?

Who suggests?

sorry is that to me/
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have moo opinipon about immigraion

dont knwo anythign about it

no

this is nothing like when the IRA campaigns were at their height, fishy, believe me

oh ok

Kisalot suggests.

Bloody attention-seeking Londoners, getting themselves blow up! what people will do to get their picture in the paper!

I never once said that ALL muslims should be banned from entering the UK, but yes I fully agree that the volume of these people coming in should be very dramatically reduced that goes for all immigrants.