Update Hacktacular

An update from the Tory Troll via Justin. Turns out the print version of that delightful Express story was even worse than the online version. Check out the section on the 'good' Dunblane survivors at the bottom of the article.

The Daily Express. A class act.

On a related note, perhaps we can expect to see similar stories having a swipe at those involved in/affected by other tragic events once they reach the age of majority? Can we look forward to the schoolfriends of Jessica Chapman and Holly Wells being villified for twittering about their weekend activities next year perhaps? Or maybe the siblings of Madeline McCann being hounded for getting on with their lives and having the occasional alcoholic beverage sometime around 2022? Do the 'bloidz keep a little list of young people involved in terrible events so they can dredge up shit about them as soon as they turn 18? I wouldn't be at all surprised.

UPDATE
Jonathan at No Sleep Til Brooklands makes the same point, but so, so much better than I did.

To those teenagers, I say this; put the Buckfast down and think about taking up crusading investigative journalism as a path to redemption. There are plenty more tragedies out there with potential! Okay, Ann Coulter is already bravely taking down the 9/11 widows, but I bet there are probably some babies damaged by the fallout from Chernobyl who don't comport themselves with sufficient decorum in 2009. What are the people who got rescued from the sinking ship during the Zeebrugge disaster up to these days? I bet some of them are a bit sweary. Be creative! With a few seconds on Wikipedia I just found out that three people survived getting wounded in the 2002 Washington sniper attacks; why not find out who they are and then start talking to their neighbours or digging around in their bins?

Awesome.

Extravaganza of Hackery!

What in bollocking balls is this all about?
There are some young people involved in doing young people stuff whilst using teenage colloquialisms on one of those evil social networking sites that hacks pretend not to understand and this is bad. So on the surface this article is simply yet another trawl through the internet for a story to whip some fauxrage up about Things Middle England Are Against and pretty much business as usual for the 'bloidz.

Ah, but this is much worse than that. These particular youths are survivors of the appalling Dunblane Massacre which took place some 13 years ago. What do you mean, what's that got to do with anything? Obviously these particular young people are somehow even worse than ordinary teenagers (who are all, according to the 'bloidz, drunken, knife-wielding fuck-rabbits) because they...er..I actually have no idea.

But I get the distinctly yucky feeling that there is something else, something exceedingly nasty being implied here. Something along the lines of 'look at these kids, using the precious gift of life for swearing, drinking and casual sex. Maybe it would have been better if.....'
I mean, just look at this shit;

For instance, ****** – who was hit by a single bullet and watched in horror as his classmates died – makes rude gestures in pictures he posted on his Bebo site, and boasts of drunken nights out.

The webpage of ******, who suffered serious injuries in the shooting, states he is the “f***y who canny stop drivin in the silver hing”, is littered with foul language and features images of him with his new tattoo on his back.

How dare these young men be alive to do the kind of things all young people do! Their classmates died and yet there they are on Bebo, engaged in evil networking, posing in pictures and showing off their tattoos! Tattoos! And according to this particular hack, this means that by simply growing up and living their lives these kids are 'shaming' the memory of those children who were killed. I mean it's obvious really. Don't they get it?

No. And neither does anyone else. What a repugnant rag the Express is.

[Hat Tip Enemies Of Reason]

UPDATE
Looks like the Express got the hint about this tripe and have taken the story down. But cached version is here (via Justin) if you still fancy making yourself sick with rage.

Much Later Update - Decided to 'redact' the names of the kids the Shitspress decided worthy of bile.