Well done Argus, you numpties

[Taybha]

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[Lord Bracknell]

Apart from the way the Argus handled the story, I'm irritated by the idiots who've commented on the Argus website who seem to think this is to provide parking for the stadium. It isn't. It's parking for Brighton University, to replace spaces that will be lost when the Club takes over that part of the stadium site that is currently occupied by the University.

When the proposal was originally put forward by the University, it attracted no story and no comments. Because the Albion have put in the planning application, all of a sudden this is news.

The application was submitted to the City Council on 22 January 2009, so it's not even fresh news. It was considered and approved by the Planning Committee as a "minor application" on Wednesday. That's the end of the matter.

Even the notoriously NIMBY South Downs Society wrote to the City Council saying that they had no objection to the proposal, provided the landscaping improvements proposed by the applicant were implemented.

 

[Stoo82]

Nice one:

This is great news. There's enough trees elsewhere, who cares about the poxy environment anyway when you're swapping it for such a wonderful piece of architecture. Besides if you want to see a nature reserve, pop down to Withdean! Go bulldozers, Go!!

 

[Lady Bracknell]

Burn Them.

 

[skipper734]

Well the article certainly hasn't pulled up any trees.

 

[Adopted Brightonian]

Nature bumming c*nts.

 

[NMH]

We should all pay tribute to nature when we go to Falmer, by going there naked.

 

[algie]

We should all pay tribute to nature when we go to Falmer, by going there naked.

I thought kicking someone in the head is more your thing?

 

[Garage_Doors]

Apart from the way the Argus handled the story, I'm irritated by the idiots who've commented on the Argus website who seem to think this is to provide parking for the stadium. It isn't. It's parking for Brighton University, to replace spaces that will be lost when the Club takes over that part of the stadium site that is currently occupied by the University.

Keep up, this was clarified on page 1.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

I think the proximity of the Police Station makes a chainsaw attack on the Argus a bit risky, but I will give it a go!

Top man - tho maybe you could use your chainsaw on the trees instead!

 

[Billy the Fish]

Apart from the way the Argus handled the story, I'm irritated by the idiots who've commented on the Argus website who seem to think this is to provide parking for the stadium. It isn't. It's parking for Brighton University, to replace spaces that will be lost when the Club takes over that part of the stadium site that is currently occupied by the University.

I know the primary use for those car parks is the university, but are we not sharing them on matchdays?

 

[Lord Bracknell]

I know the primary use for those car parks is the university, but are we not sharing them on matchdays?

No.

The only University car parks that the club will be using are on the Sussex University site, the other side of the A27.

 

[NMH]

I thought kicking someone in the head is more your thing?

Nah, but if I was an American cop chasing down gangland killers - it would be.

If I were in the soldier fighting an enemy, I'd have to kill people - any objections to that, now?

 

[trueblue]

What sort of idiot journalist writes a piece like this without contacting the developers' of the site for comment?

The fact that the piece was then updated with a statement from an internet chat forum, rather than by contacting the club's very accessible media department direct tells us all we needs to know about the standards of the Argus reporting. An utter disregard for balance in the quest for an exaggerated, misleading top line. Absolute rubbish.

It seems they were even too lazy this time to contact any of the 'rent- a-gobs' who'd usually work themselves into a lather over something like this. Or maybe even they had nothing to say for once, realizing it's a complete non-story.

 

[itszamora]

What sort of idiot journalist writes a piece like this without contacting the developers' of the site for comment?

The fact that the piece was then updated with a statement from an internet chat forum, rather than by contacting the club's very accessible media department direct tells us all we needs to know about the standards of the Argus reporting. An utter disregard for balance in the quest for an exaggerated, misleading top line. Absolute rubbish.

It seems they were even too lazy this time to contact any of the 'rent- a-gobs' who'd usually work themselves into a lather over something like this. Or maybe even they had nothing to say for once, realizing it's a complete non-story.

He probably didn't contact them because he realise doing so would prove his story to be total bollocks about nothing.

 

[Bluejuice]

Embarrassing effort from the Argus this.

Really disappointing to see such unbelievably lazy sensationalist journalism.

They should be trying to bolster their reputation during this time of economic downturn, not destroy it, alienating large sections of their readership

 

[The Oldman]

The story may have been amended on the Argus website but no amending follow up in today's printed paper. So there will be many out there who still beleve that an ancient woodland is being cut down for the new stadium.

 

[Screaming J]

Who is this c*nt Andy Chiles? Has he got any previous as a Falmer anti ?

 

[Triggaaar]

Makes me mad's what it does

 

[dougdeep]

According to today's Argus, the Albion have ions in the fire.