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RE: "NO MEDECINE, SCHOOL OR RULES - OFFGRID PARENTING" (As reported by ITV)
I read your whole post and then listened to the interview, expecting it to be atrocious.
I don't understand why you think that the mother did such a bad interview or that they might not even be a real family?
I saw no red flags and thought that she said many of the same things that I would have said.
Are you accusing the Host of reporting them to Social Services? Yes he made one rude statement about living in a hole, but other than that I do not see any wrongdoing on his part. Yet you went so far as to wish him a slow, painful death.
I get what you mean and I have no problem with the interview, if it stood alone. What I am trying to get at is the bigger picture of how the media(news and tv in this case) take an innocent situation and manipulate it to seem bad. In this case the family were portrayed to be running all over and the comments that were put on the ITV website were not impartial. This is a hatchet job done by the media system and I do think that the family could have provided more of an argument to what the very positive points are. Sorry if this has come across as an attack on the Allen family, it isn't. As far as my views about Eamon are concerned, I stand by what I say as the media shills do too much damage for a quick $$. What started as an interview about alternative lifestyles has ended with the family being compared to those who own sex-robots. That is not right and I thought it needed highlighting. Maybe I have gone a little hard on the narrative, but I think I am speaking sense.
You did say this:
But I believe that the public backlash AFTER the interview (out of control of the people who aired the interview) would have been just as bad if any of the above people had been the ones interviewed. You did make it sound like it was this family's fault. I didn't watch the interview until after I had read your entire article, and I totally expected to hear a couple of bumbling idiots. If I were this family, I would be totally insulted. You said that they picked the worst example possible.
You said:
Again, I never heard anything ignorant in the interview.
Can you please tell me specifically what they said that you think was so bad?
If there ignorant remarks began later, in the backlash with the public, then you have not linked to those so I can't judge that.
Yes, they were naive to share their alternative lifestyle with the world IF they expected the public to accept it and play nice. Although they were probably more interested in spreading awareness than in gaining friends. We all know that people on Social Media, and the comment secions of the news stories, get way more rude than they would probably ever be in real life.
They were naive to let Social Services in the door, but so are most people, even most people living alternative lifestyles.
Nothing they said was ignorant and like you, I support what they did say but they left sooo much out. Why put give yourself such a huge responsibility and then not mention any of the positives. My opinion about them being ignorant was 100% in reference to the dangers of interacting with the MSM and I think I have probably made the mistake of assuming we all understand how this machine operates. The comments I have referred to are that of proffesional journalist, not public messages(although I did add one, but that was just to show what type of rhetoric ITV was allowing to appear. There were no positive comments shown and that is bias and dangerous) It was the MSM that pushed the backlash to this story, not the public. They do this kind of thing to mis-inform people and I just think it stinks. I may do a little editing so not to berate the family so much(your comment about them not being "the worse example" is right and I have gone too far there).
Always happy to have some constructive criticism put my way, so no offense taken at all.
Yeah, that would probably have been a good post. I wish that you had focused on that and not how terrible the interview was.
So were there follow-up TV news stories about this family? Or was it just people being nasty in the comment section and on Facebook? And if it was on the news, was it the same station or News Show or interviewer who slammed them later on?
Thanks and I was trying for that narrative. Can't get it right every time.
In ref to your Q about the follow up articles, they were all about the same family and they seemed to carry on following them for months after. I suppose it was a story that sold papers but then to link this family with stories of sex-robots basically giving no opposing argument, other than this family is weird and I quote "unnatural". This to me is a great example of how the media work together. The family was never the point and they never intended it to be, the point was to ridicule those who live like this, before folk get to look for themselves. It's kind of beating us to the punch and once folk have this image of "off-gridding" they stick with it.
yes.
By the way, thanks for taking my criticisms so well.
I wish you all the best!
As I couldn't remove the tag, I have tried to iron out some of the confusion and false narratives. I hope this make my point a little clearer and sorry for the confusion.