Freedom of speech

It's pretty sad I'm actually trying to respond to a trashy newspaper like De Telegraaf, but still... Let me tell you what happened. We've got a newspaper in Holland, desperately trying to be like the British tabloids, but at the same time trying to be somewhat of a respectable broadsheet. Obviously, you can't have it both ways, so as a result this rag is useless in any aspect.

So, you may ask, why am I still reading it? I don't, actually. What I like to do, is go to the online version at http://www.telegraaf.nl and read the user's comments. For all their trying to become a tabloid did attract the right public to get some hilarious responds. If this was America, Telegraaf readers would be ignorant rednecks. It's a shame most of you will probably not be able to read the hilarious responds, but for the ones who do speak Dutch: go check it out. There may be people with only one braincell after all.

What this have to do with my experience tonight? Well, from time to time I like to post a comment myself, which is mostly when there's just a blatant mistake (happens all the time at this wortless excuse for a newspaper) which is most of the times a result of a word for word translation of an article earlier published in The Sun or the Daily Mirror, two of Britain's most idiotic tabloids.

Well, it turned out tonight that while it's perfectly okay for these (dare I call them that way) 'journalists' to write whatever bullshit they please, but it's not possible to actually try and set the record straight. Every comment I try to post to correct mistakes has been rejected so far, even though I don't violate any of their silly little rules. Mind you, one of the rules is 'no personal attacts' which is something the mojaority of the readers does. Of course, this is because that's exactly the kind of readers they like to attract.

Anyway, I'd say freedom of speech my ass at De Telegraaf. Why don't you just go fuck yourself?