Ladies firstpiss off
They made an accusation that the silhouetted mystery man bought illegal porn, which they don't appear to have had any evidence for.It's not really about libel in this case. It's privacy laws which are the issue.
Absolutely. It's almost as if it's purposely being used to keep other news off the front pages.There's plenty of news to go around, there's a fucking war going on, inflation, interest rate rises, cost of living, climate crisis... It really is absurd the amount of focus this gets, alongside the Phillip Schofield saga.
Murdoch is the one we should all be watching. Imagine the same focus on the sex offenders in the UK parliament. No. Me neither. And that it the point. A scandal banked by Johnson’s ‘media’ protectors to be used at an opportune moment. Job done.The claims of BBC neutrality and impartiality are easily disproved, but despite that the ideology it secretes combines certain values with its pro-establishment positioning. The Sun and Murdoch want to see the BBC disestablished because, for millions of people, it embodies integrity and fairness in news. It has a certain standing against which News Corp's output is shown to be outright partial and bent to the sectional agendas of the right, and that makes their propaganda less effective than it might be. Think of it as the BBC providing a yardstick. With its disappearance from the news gathering and reporting scene, standards would inevitably tumble, or become appendages to the politics of commercial broadcasters. This is a recipe for segmenting the audience along political lines as per the United States, making divide and conquer easier, and the development of a common ground more difficult. Only oligarchical interests and grifters are served by this scenario. Presently, the BBC is an obstacle to this happening to broadcast news because it is an institution that is valued by millions across political divides.
This is reflected in the right wing and left wing critiques of the BBC. The left often criticises its low key pro-establishment editorialising and its using right wing frames to construct its reporting because it falls short of the values its committed to. The right criticises the BBC when it does approximate impartiality and even-handedness, such as when it allows left wingers onto its politics shows or critically reports on government policy and activity. Accuracy and evidence counts more for the left simply because right wing politics is structurally dishonest. Its purpose is to present the minority interest as the universal interest, and that means lying and obfuscating as a matter of routine. Or being economical with the truth when the indiscretions of a BBC presenter are used a lever for pushing a highly sectional political and commercial agenda
Police don't think anything criminal went downThey made an accusation that the silhouetted mystery man bought illegal porn, which they don't appear to have had any evidence for.
That must be the quickest review by the police I think I have ever seenNo criminal offence committed shock.
Not yet but could be sooner than we think?Named.
SourceThe presenter has named himself, with support from his wife.
It all has a whiff of Max Clifford who worked hand in glove with The Sun etc on these sorts of stories. And he ended up doing time for worse. They didn’t place themselves under the spotlight on that occasion
PM (radio4)Source
it has just been announced - and the presenter named - on Radio 4Not yet but could be sooner than we think?
BBC Radio 4. He has put out an official announcement, apparently, and so has his wife.Source
Ah okit has just been announced - and the presenter named - on Radio 4
If anyone else wants to know, PM me and I’ll tell you for a fiver donation to Oxfam!
I can see a certain logic to it.It's all a bit boring now, but where's the logic of the fact that if this guy had actually got to have sex with this 17yo boy, thats fully legal, but getting dick pics from him could put him in jail for 14 years. And blocking the publication of his name when it's all over the internet. It's a very British fucked up-ness.
S*n has blighted people's lives so much over the years. Hillsborough, underage phwoar grossness, homophobia etc
But am guessing that more than likely these days the protesters will be found outside the BBC offices, rarely the s*n?