NeverOffside
10th March 2009, 08:29 AM
Crass title in my opinion, but a worthy exercise...
http://www.hfdinfo.com/
From Luke Traynor on Liverpool Banter website.
A UNIQUE online dossier that aims to dispel some of the myths surrounding the Hillsborough tragedy is to be re-released.
A small group of Liverpool fans are set to relaunch their successful Hillsborough for Dummies project in the run-up to the disaster's 20th anniversary.
Now with a new title, The Hillsborough Football Disaster: Context & Consequences will educate people about the events of April 15, 1989.
Some sections from the first edition have been taken out and extra passages about the inquest and role of South Yorkshire Police added. The aim is to shatter some of the hurtful and incorrect facts and stereotypes about the tragedy that continue to abound two decades on.
Already, a number of broadsheet national newspapers have expressed interest in adopting the release as a good practice guide.
One well-known sports editor has promised to distribute it among journalists to be used as a concise and reliable "crib sheet."
Behind the dossier is Jim Sharman, 39, a lifelong Liverpool fan who now lives and works in Sweden.
He said: "People don't realise the depth of deception that went on after Hillsborough.
"A year of my life has gone into the publication and the more I delve into it I think, 'how did they [the authorities) get away with it?'
"Among the ignorant, there is still the incorrect notion that supporters pushed the gate and cruched those at the front.
"For this document, we've backtracked where the lies came from. This is another tool in the fight."
Jim, originally from Toxteth, is the editor behind the project whose author is Nicola McMillan, a media studies graduate from Manchester.
The original Hillsborough for Dummies dossier was put together after consultation with the coroner in Sheffield, the Hillsborough Family Suport Group, author Phil Scraton, Anne Williams who lost her teenage son Kevin on Leppings Lane and a range of survivors. The new release contains 20 key questions that probes a series of alleged failures committed by South Yorkshire Police, Sheffield city council and the Football Association.
It ends by stating the plain question: "Why has no individual group or organisation been held to account for the worst disaster in British sporting history?"
http://www.hfdinfo.com/
From Luke Traynor on Liverpool Banter website.
A UNIQUE online dossier that aims to dispel some of the myths surrounding the Hillsborough tragedy is to be re-released.
A small group of Liverpool fans are set to relaunch their successful Hillsborough for Dummies project in the run-up to the disaster's 20th anniversary.
Now with a new title, The Hillsborough Football Disaster: Context & Consequences will educate people about the events of April 15, 1989.
Some sections from the first edition have been taken out and extra passages about the inquest and role of South Yorkshire Police added. The aim is to shatter some of the hurtful and incorrect facts and stereotypes about the tragedy that continue to abound two decades on.
Already, a number of broadsheet national newspapers have expressed interest in adopting the release as a good practice guide.
One well-known sports editor has promised to distribute it among journalists to be used as a concise and reliable "crib sheet."
Behind the dossier is Jim Sharman, 39, a lifelong Liverpool fan who now lives and works in Sweden.
He said: "People don't realise the depth of deception that went on after Hillsborough.
"A year of my life has gone into the publication and the more I delve into it I think, 'how did they [the authorities) get away with it?'
"Among the ignorant, there is still the incorrect notion that supporters pushed the gate and cruched those at the front.
"For this document, we've backtracked where the lies came from. This is another tool in the fight."
Jim, originally from Toxteth, is the editor behind the project whose author is Nicola McMillan, a media studies graduate from Manchester.
The original Hillsborough for Dummies dossier was put together after consultation with the coroner in Sheffield, the Hillsborough Family Suport Group, author Phil Scraton, Anne Williams who lost her teenage son Kevin on Leppings Lane and a range of survivors. The new release contains 20 key questions that probes a series of alleged failures committed by South Yorkshire Police, Sheffield city council and the Football Association.
It ends by stating the plain question: "Why has no individual group or organisation been held to account for the worst disaster in British sporting history?"