They're desperately scouring their Deliveroo apps as we speak.
Drago's murder deathkill slaughter massacre panic petrol buying watch!!!
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Drago
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Katie Price is always up for a bit of driving.
AuroraSaab
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It's too expensive to drive now. It's cheaper to buy cocaine and run everywhere.
Pale Rider
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Perhaps you'd care to point out a couple of the many stories which have grievously misled you.
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Drago
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Just been speaking to my Dad in Kent, up on the rural Kent downs, and he's had no real issue buying fuel this week.
It's not so much as case of misled, rather than just 'led'. The media in some quarters have whipped up a frenzy, and before the panic buying has even begun in earnest were bigging up the shortages and panic buying to come. Even some of the more sober media sources have been flogging that deceased equus.
So rather than calmly and objectively reporting events, some parts of the media have instead been driving events. Ultimately most news outlets have been correct, but only because they've been pushing and prodding a gullible/fearful audience in that direction themselves.
The Mail are now reporting a 5p rise in the price of petrol next week, and it will likely happen - not because the price of oil has gone up (it hasn't), or because supplies at the strategic level are short (because they are not), but because the Mail said so. That will pressure people into further panic buying before the price does rise, which will perpetuate shortages at the pump, and with limited availability to the public at the pump the laws of supply and demand will ensure that there will be a rise. There will be a rise for no other reason than the likes of the Mail are telling us there will be.
If all media had remained totally schtum on the subject none of this would have happened. Yes, they're reporting real events, but these are real events that the media themselves have had a very large hand in bringing about.
It's not so much as case of misled, rather than just 'led'. The media in some quarters have whipped up a frenzy, and before the panic buying has even begun in earnest were bigging up the shortages and panic buying to come. Even some of the more sober media sources have been flogging that deceased equus.
So rather than calmly and objectively reporting events, some parts of the media have instead been driving events. Ultimately most news outlets have been correct, but only because they've been pushing and prodding a gullible/fearful audience in that direction themselves.
The Mail are now reporting a 5p rise in the price of petrol next week, and it will likely happen - not because the price of oil has gone up (it hasn't), or because supplies at the strategic level are short (because they are not), but because the Mail said so. That will pressure people into further panic buying before the price does rise, which will perpetuate shortages at the pump, and with limited availability to the public at the pump the laws of supply and demand will ensure that there will be a rise. There will be a rise for no other reason than the likes of the Mail are telling us there will be.
If all media had remained totally schtum on the subject none of this would have happened. Yes, they're reporting real events, but these are real events that the media themselves have had a very large hand in bringing about.
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Ming the Merciless
There is no mercy
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This is why drug dealers ride e scooters.
glasgowcyclist
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carpiste
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Really? just turn on your tv or look at the newspapers and then have a look through the 59 pages of this thread. I`m not going to do the work for you!
ebikeerwidnes
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It is quite simple
The media simple report the news as it is - truthfully and in an unbiased manner - nor profit motif in any way - just good solid journalism
Unless they are looking for some sponsorship deal or influence from an organisation or are selling advertising - in which case they can go though a multi pages PowerPoint showing how much influence they can have and how much they can affect how the public think
simple really
warning - above post may contain sarcasm
The media simple report the news as it is - truthfully and in an unbiased manner - nor profit motif in any way - just good solid journalism
Unless they are looking for some sponsorship deal or influence from an organisation or are selling advertising - in which case they can go though a multi pages PowerPoint showing how much influence they can have and how much they can affect how the public think
simple really
warning - above post may contain sarcasm
oldwheels
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We once got a turkey from a farmer friend with it's wings still flapping even tho' it was dead. Fortunately my wife being properly brought up was not fazed in any way and set about it outdoors as the feathers tend to spread too far indoors. We did decapitate it just to make sure before starting work.
Landsurfer
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Just been to ASDA in Dalton, Rotherham ... filled up. 
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