I was listening to Nolan this week on Radio Ulster and i couldn't believe my ears. Big Jim McDowell was lamenting about how the images of Bloody Friday were so graphic that the media of the day couldn't print them. He went on to say that he agreed entirely with the newspapers who, quite rightly, didn't print the images of innocent women and children blown to pieces by cowardly IRA bombs. He's right, i mean it would have been absolutely disgusting and unneccesary to show photos of mutilated corpses strewn across Belfast. It would have been a complete disregard for the feelings of the extended families to have printed such horror and carnage. Nolan went on to massage 'Big Jim's' ego by consulting with him about the finer points of editorial working practice concerning protocol when it comes to printing horrofic images. Jim duely pontifficated on the subject like some kind of guru hack.
What struck me as odd was, that Nolan and indeed big uncle Belfast(McDowell), had completely forgotten about, was the truely horriffic images that McDowell plastered all over the front page of his awful rag, when a young Chinese lad from Bangor put a rope around his neck and jumped over the edge of the flyover bridge coming into the town resulting in the lad killing himself. Can you imagine the hurt and dismay that must have been caused to the lad's family as they entered the local garage/newsagents to get a pint of milk and there is McDowell's horror show on display? Your a hypocrite and a disgrace McDowell.
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