Hamer Time

Thursday afternoon, time for another debating session to end the weeks work. This is starting to become my favourite part of the course, it's interesting to see others people's views and opinions on things.

Today's topic was an article picked out by Kit and Sam about a murder that had taken place in Manchester. The murderer was a teenage boy named Michael Hamer, on an 11 year old systic fibrosis sufferer, described as a 'little angel'. The title read 'Teenage Pyscho', and as stated in the session, seemed like a title from a film. Upon reading the article, it did seem like a movie script!

The argument that was made was that the article was not taking a fair viewpoint, and was biased towards the victim. It was portraying the murderer as a 'monster', and, as Kit put it, 'was describing it as a battle of good vs evil', and was treating him as if he was not a human being.

In my personal opinion, when I read accounts on murders, I feel no sympathy for the murderer at all. When they commit such a horrendous crime, they give up their right to be treated like a human being. These people are scumbags, so who cares if they are being treated 'unfairly'?!

Try to put yourself in the position of the family who has lost their son. I would feel outraged if someone in the newspaper was trying to be 'fair' and finding reasons/excuses as to why this person could have done such a thing. If it were a member of my family, I wouldn't give a toss whether this person had mental health problems, was bullied at school etc, I would personally want to smash their face in! And I would want them to rot away in jail for as long as possible.

The way the article was written was, in my view, the right way. The Sun is the people's paper, and was written in away that people would feel towards the subject.

P.S
Come on you Spurs in Turkey tonight.
P.P.S
Well done to CSKA Moscow for their victory against Arsenal on Wednesday.