I was driving through Rondebosch the other day and saw a newspaper poster on a light pole saying something like "Merryweather was drunk"
For those of you not aware, Andrew Merryweather was beaten up at a petrol station in Claremont and is now paralysed. What is crazy is that the newspapers feel the need to put this up on a sign post. If you read the article, you will see that an attendant at the petrol station testified and said Merryweather was drunk. That's fine.
But the way the newspapers make it come across is that it is a problem that Merryweather was drunk. They will say they are not doing this and are merely reporting the facts. I think the fact that he was drunk is not important at all, not important enough to make it onto newpsaper boards.
This does not necessitate beating someone so badly that they are paralysed. This is bullshit. The kids who beat him up need to harden up and stop hiding behind their rich parents. Because money doesn't buy class, and it should not buy your way out of jail.
Let's see what the trial will make of it.
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I was misquoted in the Sunday Times before bro, these fuckers get away with anything as long as it gets people to buy more copies.
An apology, to them, is nothing, they don't feel bad, but the original story sold copies, and that's all they're after.
Feel sorry for the guy, now they'll turn it around to be all his fault probably. Poor bugger.
Yeah it is a tricky thing with papers, trying to sell copies and maintaining interest with their posters, yet still keeping it decent.
I just thought it was inappropriate, considering Andrew will probably never walk again.
What I hate the most is these rich kids who get away with these things, and they don't seem to care. I was trying to find an article that I read earlier about one of the accused basically smiling in court as though the whole incident is some sort of joke. It's pathetic really.
Sean
Yeah, we just have to hang on to the hope that one day, unsuspectingly, these little cunts are going to die a horrible death. Good riddance I say.
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