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By: ThePickards » Paula Murray, Speak For Yourself

ThePickards » Paula Murray, Speak For Yourself — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 22:17:58 +0000

[...] behaving like perfectly normal 18 year olds? Come on, you must remember it: I blogged about it, Justin blogged about it, Tim blogged about it and Graham did [...]

By: DBC

DBC — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 23:24:09 +0000

The paper has now apologised. I hope they sack that so-called “reporter”

http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/90417/Dunblane-We-re-sorry

By: Martin Butler

Martin Butler — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 12:37:36 +0000

Why should we be surprised? This from the paper which kept Madelaine McCann and Princess Diana on the front page daily long past their sell by date. This is not a newspaper, it’s just lazy journalism at its worst.

By: ‘It is a vicious paper…’ | Rand Hobart's Random Homilies

‘It is a vicious paper…’ | Rand Hobart's Random Homilies — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 18:58:24 +0000

[...] of the same can be found on Chicken Yoghurt, and Bloggerheads has given La Murray the same treatment she gave the Dunblane [...]

By: And journalists wonder why everybody hates them | Bigmouth Strikes Again

And journalists wonder why everybody hates them | Bigmouth Strikes Again — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 15:09:16 +0000

[...] As Chicken Yoghurt puts it: If only the doctors and counsellors who treated the wounds and mental scars of those children all those years ago had had the foresight to say: ‘Now, children, you most now go forth and live the lives of angels, not only in tribute to your dead schoolmates who no doubt would have wanted you to live puritanical lives, but also to avoid the predations of journalists barely worthy of the name who, as soon as you turn 18, will ransack your private lives in search of cheap, revolting scoops.’ All this could have been avoided. [...]

By: hel

hel — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 21:36:30 +0000

i really hope you sent that letter to the express, i agree with you entirely, the survivors are just ordinary human beings who should be allowed to move on and get on with their lives.

By: Paula Murray ‘has fallen off the wagon’ - Chicken Yoghurt

Paula Murray ‘has fallen off the wagon’ - Chicken Yoghurt — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 13:15:36 +0000

[...] Paula Murray? She was the Sunday Express journalist who wrote the outraged little article where she [...]

By: Paula Murray is an idiot update - Chicken Yoghurt

Paula Murray is an idiot update - Chicken Yoghurt — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 17:47:30 +0000

[...] of Adam on Twitter, Paula Murray’s revolting Dunblane story in the Express has been pulled from the website. You can still [...]

By: Fellow Traveller

Fellow Traveller — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 14:26:53 +0000

I think the Express and those who share this view believe exactly that idea: those who narrowly escape death have been spared by God and therefore must devote their lives to the Good in gratitude for his mercy. I think this unspoken theological conception underlies this judgment. In other words, the deaths at Dunblane were, ultimately, a moral act.

The other point of view is simply to see the survivors as lucky – in an absurd universe, their childhood classmates died, for no reason at all, and, they lived ,for no reason at all.

By: Roger

Roger — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 13:18:15 +0000

My letter / rant to the express!

I write to convey my sincere displeasure at the the article in yesterday’s Scottish Sunday Express “Anniversary shame of Dunblane survivors”. What on earth was the point of this article other than to polarise a community and vilify ‘daft’ young men? It is an extreme example of muck raking journalism.

The massacre at Dunblane Primary School on the 13th March 1996 cast a dark shadow over the country. None of us can imagine the terror experienced by those in the gym that day. These were 5 and 6 year old children who were hunted down by a madmen and shot with large calibre handguns. At the time we were all grateful that so many of the wounded survived to grow up as normal kids. It is also impossible to imagine the ‘baggage’ that these kids will have. The guilt, the fear, not to mention the physical effects of being shot. The fact that some of these kids grew up to be normal ‘daft laddies’ should almost be noteworthy of praise.

I live in Dunblane, and like any town in Scotland we have 18 year olds who go to University, who are in apprenticeships, who go to college, who are unemployed, who play piano, who play football or rugby, who drive customised cars and who get drunk on buckfast. In short, they do what normal 18 year olds do, and I thank God that they can. So many children lost the chance that morning to grow up to be normal 18 year olds.

The kids that survived that gym hall have a legacy. They survived Scotland’s most brutal atrocity in living memory. They lost their friends and their innocence and many will endure the physical effects for the rest of their lives. Does the Express believe that because they survived that they should count themselves lucky and be Saints for evermore, or was this just a cynical attempt to cash in on the tragedy and sell more papers?

Please. Leave them alone.