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Urban75 sells 'Thatcher Death Party' photo to Telegraph

MacGyver | 11.04.2013 18:44 | World

Self-defined 'activist' and 'guerrilla media node' 'Editor' of Urban75, a Brixton website, sells candid picture of revellers to Daily Telegraph who use it for a smear campaign.

The full thread here:

 http://www.urban75.net/forums/threads/tory-papers-now-gunning-for-those-who-attended-thatcher-parties-teachers-attacked.308855/

MacGyver

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11.04.2013 21:11

This is an open publishing site, not one that requires users to log into your clique circle.

Moderator please delete this item if they cannot be bothered to file a story correctly.

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11.04.2013 22:24

" It's not like there's any shortage of photos of that particular scene and the cash they've paid will go to a very worthy cause. Me.
editor, Today at 1:36 PM "

 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/margaret-thatcher/9986361/Parents-and-staff-disgusted-by-Thatcher-death-party-teacher.html

" I've just got a load of cash off the Telegraph for zero work :D
editor, Today at 1:55 PM "

" I would have refused if I'd known what they were going to use it for, but I'm not going to beat myself up over me getting paid as a photographer for a picture showing someone engaging in perfectly legal activity.

Just like everyone else, I need money to live and without it this site would not exist.
editor, Today at 2:09 PM "




MacGyver

We all need money don't we

12.04.2013 00:31

I can relate to this man's decision to sell his photograph(s) to the Tory media. We all need money don't we. I have rent to pay, and food to buy, and I like a pint now and then. That's why I joined the police force.

Anyway, if I didn't do it, somebody else would have.

Nobody should have a go at me, because I did lots of charity work for free for years and years before I joined the police force. Lots of people benefitted from my voluntary work and fundraising efforts and I did it all for free, sometimes I even spent my own money on it. So now I get to do whatever I want and nobody should criticise me because I am a good person, I proved that before, that gives me license to do whatever I want forever more.

Now, I want to get paid. Getting paid is what matters to me now.

If I didn't smash the heads in of the young protesters, well somebody else would and they might not be me - would you rather they got the money for it or I did?

I really enjoy drinking pints that I bought with the money I earn from selling out my friends and comrades. It tastes good.

Bent Copper