{"id":5897,"date":"2013-10-03T12:57:53","date_gmt":"2013-10-03T12:57:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meeseeks:5080\/blog\/?p=5897"},"modified":"2013-10-03T12:57:53","modified_gmt":"2013-10-03T12:57:53","slug":"cultures-of-disrespect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/2013\/10\/cultures-of-disrespect\/","title":{"rendered":"Cultures of disrespect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The right-wing press are always keen to complain that we are on a fast track to hell in a handbasket, because people in our modern society allegedly lack due respect.\u00a0 How right they are!\u00a0 Journalists from one newspaper group hacked into the mobile voice mail box of a dead child. \u00a0 How disrespectful to the family of the child is that? \u00a0\u00a0 And another newspaper\u00a0 &#8211; which had consistently supported appeasement with the Nazi regime in Germany in the 1930s\u00a0 &#8211; just this week traduced the memory of a man who had joined the Royal Navy to fight for his adopted country in World War II.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Oh the irony of Nazi appeasers accusing an ex-serviceman of disloyalty to Britain!\u00a0\u00a0 How they must have all laughed about that in the editorial planning meeting!<br \/>\nAnd as if to prove there is no threshold below which some journalist will not sink, a reporter from the same newspaper group <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2013\/oct\/03\/mail-on-sunday-gatecrashes-miliband-memorial-ed\" target=\"_blank\">gate-crashed a private memorial service<\/a> for a recently deceased family member, held in a hospital, and questioned participants on their attitudes to another deceased.<br \/>\nHave newspaper owners and journalists no sense of decency?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The right-wing press are always keen to complain that we are on a fast track to hell in a handbasket, because people in our modern society allegedly lack due respect.\u00a0 How right they are!\u00a0 Journalists from one newspaper group hacked into the mobile voice mail box of a dead child. \u00a0 How disrespectful to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","p1","y2013","m10","d03","h12"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5897\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}