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Stokes Croft: Press Association saying Tesco Met was petrol bombed!!!

newshound | 23.04.2011 08:02 | Other Press

The Press Association, as published on the Guardian website, is saying on Thursday night during the riot in Stoke Croft, the branch of Tesco Metro was petrol bombed!!!
Title: "Police accused over arrests riot"
Published on the Guardian website:  http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/feedarticle/9610316

The Press Association have put out a report Friday evening saying that the branch of Tesco Metro in Stokes Croft was petrol bombed during the riot Thursday night! It has been published on the Guardian website since last night (Friday).

Title: "Police accused over arrests riot"
Published on the Guardian website:  http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/feedarticle/9610316

This glaring error is in the 3rd paragraph down, 2nd sentence. At 03:09, on 23.04.2011, as soon as I first noticed it, I telephoned the Press Association and complained and then sent a complaint on their contact page on their website.

I told them the story has been live for 24 hours and nowhere else has this been reported, because it is completely incorrect, and said that it was not only really shoddy journalism, but completely unacceptable and an outrage, considering the fact that this report would have now gone around the world.

Inexplicably, despite having done this 6 hrs ago, the report remains in it's original form on the Guardian website as I write this (09:00).

If you want to also complain, ring the Press Association on: +44 (0)870 120 3200
or
email them on their contact page at:  http://www.pressassociation.com/contact.html

The Guardian's report yesturday (Friday), which did not report about this petrol bomb having been actually used:  http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/apr/22/bristol-riot-police-injured


newshound

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Correction: url still live, but not retrievable from website now

23.04.2011 08:39

Correction: before I said that the article remains on the Guardian website, which is not strictly true because while the url of the article is still live, it is thankfully not retrievable from website now.

Complain to the Guardian about removing the article completely, by telephone: 0207239 9558 (ask to speak to the Reports Editor Dave Batty).

newshound


Telegraph

23.04.2011 09:06

The Telegraph has an article headed with the claim that Tesco was petrol-bombed, but doesn't mention it in the article itself.

Ashe


Correction: it is still on the Guardian site

23.04.2011 10:22

Just checked (at 11:21am), and the Guardian website still says:

"The crowd dug up cobbles from the road surface to throw at the police and a nearby branch of Tesco Metro, which opened last week, was petrol-bombed."

The proper journalists must all be on holiday.

Big Gay Panda


Copyright

23.04.2011 18:43

The Guardian article is copyrighted as a Press Association work of fiction - ha - if they can't get the basics right they will soon be a laughing stock

Ashe


Other mistake...

24.04.2011 00:26

Also, it's a tesco _express_ not a metro. Shoddy journalism, though I suppose it's harder to tell since the sign was 'removed' by local residents on Thursday night :-).

Anon


Sub Judice

24.04.2011 11:39

Can you spell "Innocent until proved guilty"?

You may scoff but this is going to make hard if not impossible for the accused to get a fair trial. Speaking of which, where are the accused? Banged up on remand? If you are reading this SUE THEIR ASSES. The press in particular have to be taught a lesson - we cannot have trial by newspaper.

anonymous


suing

24.04.2011 19:43

You may have a problem suing them. If they said 'John Smith threw a petrol bomb' then John Smith can sue. If they said 'A petrol bomb was thrown' then John Smith cannot sue.

not a lawyer


Observer wrote a article that was vfair on the debacle, looks like its sister

25.04.2011 14:22

paper just copy& pasted this from press associationw who likely got disinfo from right wing authoritarians-murdoch. Maybe a local councillor could sue on behalf of stokes cross?

Definetely worth writing to the press complaints commission please  http://pcc.org.uk/
02078310022 on bank hols at mo,back tomorrow + get your MPs to pull fingers out if they arent,people like Norman Baker& Tony Benn& zac goldsmith can be useful. Areas like St pauls shouldnt take the full brunt of cuts etc+ have to defend everyone, they need more support from residents in areas like montpellier. Tesco are trying to set up a monopoly for its owners, we should use ombudsmen,mps& all measures we have got.

Bristol is being played or has been infiltrated by agent provocatuers who likely planted cocktails if some were found, strategy of tensions have been used many times before to infiltrate diffuse & detain radicals, notably in Italy. Maybe this is why comments from my IP address to Bristol IMC have been blocked?, best not to be too paranoid. Either way if police use this situ to try & crack down hard on activists many people will take to the streets& make peaceful disruption + the law will be used back on them,

so dont panic C@ptain Mainwaring,dont panic, really dont,many people really are Vpissed off& eager for positive democratic& economic change

Georgina Orwellski


... still putting it out!

29.04.2011 08:51

There was more "trouble" at Stokes Croft last night. The Guardian report
(  http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/apr/29/bristol-protest-police-injured-tesco ) repeats the PA fiction about the Tesco store being petrol-bombed.

Barry