Media persecution of Raheem Sterling

Clevers said:
Positive article in the Mirror

https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/guns-gangs-poverty-football-tragic-12619999

Strangely it has links to a Sun article in 2014 that is also positive.
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Articles like this highlight one of the most frustrating things about this entire affair which is that people like Damilola Taylor's Dad should be holding up Raheem Sterling as a fucking Icon.

This is a kid who comes from nothing, abject poverty, broken home, lost his father to gun violence, growing up on some of the roughest council estates in London and he didn't get involved in gangs, or drugs, or violence, he worked day after day after day, to make the absolute most of his natural talent and get him and his family out of poverty.

He should be the anti-gang violence poster child, but they'd rather try and tear him down instead and write him off as a bad role model.
 
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MillionMilesAway said:
Was it a good 'apology'?
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'in our coverage of this story last night we made a mistake in our reporting of sterling statement explaining why he has a gun tattoo. We'd like to sincerely apologise for this error and any distress it has caused Raheem and his family'

Then they went straight to a story on Lukaku... Better than nothing I suppose. Im sure there will be a video of it floating about somewhere, Ill try and find one.
 
Bluemoonie92 said:
'in our coverage of this story last night we made a mistake in our reporting of sterling statement explaining why he has a gun tattoo. We'd like to sincerely apologise for this error and any distress it has caused Raheem and his family'

Then they went straight to a story on Lukaku... Better than nothing I suppose. Im sure there will be a video of it floating about somewhere, Ill try and find one.
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Cheers. About as much as you'd expect then.
 
domalino said:
Articles like this highlight one of the most frustrating things about this entire affair which is that people like Damilola Taylor's Dad should be holding up Raheem Sterling as a fucking Icon.

This is a kid who comes from nothing, abject poverty, broken home, lost his father to gun violence, growing up on some of the roughest council estates in London and he didn't get involved in gangs, or drugs, or violence, he worked day after day after day, to make the absolute most of his natural talent and get him and his family out of poverty.

He should be the anti-gang violence poster child, but they'd rather try and tear him down instead and write him off as a bad role model.
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Damilola Taylor’s dad suffered and is still suffering from the worst thing that can happen to a parent. His remarks should be viewed as the sort of thing a grieving parent might come out with - exactly like Lucy Cope. The Sun are scum for using grieving parents as rentaquote but I wouldn’t lose much sleep over what they say.
 
Chris in London said:
Damilola Taylor’s dad suffered and is still suffering from the worst thing that can happen to a parent. His remarks should be viewed as the sort of thing a grieving parent might come out with - exactly like Lucy Cope. The Sun are scum for using grieving parents as rentaquote but I wouldn’t lose much sleep over what they say.
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Sorry but you don't get to use your grief as an excuse to attack another victim of gun violence.

Richard Taylor has been through an awful loss, just like Sterling, and he's been around this debate for a long time, so he should know better than giving The Sun a long interview on the topic without considering the entire situation.

He's taken a conscious decision to decide Sterling is a bad role model and attack him in the national press, using all of the weight that comes with being Damilola Taylor's father.
 
domalino said:
Articles like this highlight one of the most frustrating things about this entire affair which is that people like Damilola Taylor's Dad should be holding up Raheem Sterling as a fucking Icon.

This is a kid who comes from nothing, abject poverty, broken home, lost his father to gun violence, growing up on some of the roughest council estates in London and he didn't get involved in gangs, or drugs, or violence, he worked day after day after day, to make the absolute most of his natural talent and get him and his family out of poverty.

He should be the anti-gang violence poster child, but they'd rather try and tear him down instead and write him off as a bad role model.
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That's now how most people work. They get bitter and twisted when someone from a similar background does better than them and improves themselves, they don't congratulate it, they get absorbed and resentful because it isn't them or their kid.
 
Just wait for the headlines if he misses a sitter in the world cup with his right foot. "Sterlings gun misfires" or some such shite.
 
Chris in London said:
No I agree completely but that said maybe cutting a bit of slack is in order. Given the circumstances.
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I'm hugely sympathetic to his personal loss, but Richard Taylor has been involved in this debate for 20 years now. He knows how this works, he knows what he is doing when a tabloid journalist calls him. He knows the political weight of his son's name and the influence that wields in the public debate.

He's made a decision to ignore the fact Raheem Sterling is a victim of gun violence, ignore the fact he's a fairy-tale rags to riches story from the kind of areas he's been campaigning in for years, and ignore Sterling's explanation of his tattoo, instead writing it off as glamourising gun violence.



That's wilful ignorance on so many levels that I can't just say "Oh well you get a pass because you lost somebody as well".

It's also been pointed out in the Guardian today that by wading into the debate he's not just lent the weight of his son's name behind The Sun, but given them the perfect shield to the accusations of racism as well.
 
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