Mail: a truly despicable article ("nothing 'natural' about Stephen Gately's death")

[mrsfran]

I complained to the PCC and received an email saying the following:

Thank you for making your complaint to the Press Complaints Commission about the article published in the Daily Mail on the 16/10/09.

Please note that we require you to supply a copy of the article or articles you are complaining about. You can either do this as an attachment to the email or by providing a link to the article or by sending hard copy in the post to: Press Complaints Commission, Halton House, 20/23 Holborn, London EC1N 2JD. A hard copy should be sent within seven days of raising your complaint.

If you have provided a copy of the article by post, as an attachment or as a link with your email then you will hear from us shortly. If you have not and we do not receive a copy within seven days we will assume you do not wish to pursue the matter further.

If you require any further assistance please do not hesitate to contact us by email at complaints@pcc.org.uk or by telephone 0845 600 2757.

Press Complaints Commission

So do I now have to email them back with another link to the article (despite having provided a link on the complaint form)?

 

[fogbat]

I think God gave you that cold, Stella, so you could do His work today

 

[strung out]

brooker's written an article on this for monday's guardian.

 

[rollinder]

headline's now "a strange, lonely and troubling death"
and the url's changed http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1220756/A-strange-lonely-troubling-death--.html

The google ads and advertorial links down the bottom are still there but there's now empty space where I think banner ads were.

 

[trashpony]

Lol. Your gaydar is proper fucked then!

It's slightly rusty

 

[rollinder]

brooker's written an article on this for monday's guardian.

yay - I hoped he would.

 

[danny la rouge]

So do I now have to email them back with another link to the article (despite having provided a link on the complaint form)?

No, write to the Mail, the advertisers, and Moir's other employer,the Observer/Guardian.

 

[Guineveretoo]

Comments on the page rolling back through now... I guess moderated

Mine never appeared

 

[john x]

I complained to the PCC and received an email saying the following:



So do I now have to email them back with another link to the article (despite having provided a link on the complaint form)?

Yes I found that confusing. I'm sure they know what the article is by now but may not register your complaint without the link.

I just replied with the link.

john x

 

[5t3IIa]

I think God gave you that cold, Stella, so you could do His work today

 

[kyser_soze]

I complained to the PCC and received an email saying the following:



So do I now have to email them back with another link to the article (despite having provided a link on the complaint form)?

To which they'll respond 'Thanks but we can only act on complaints received by family or someone with a direct connection to the subject'

 

[Guineveretoo]

Pink news have picked it up:

http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2009/10/1...ily-mail-column-on-gay-singer-stephen-gately/

 

[5t3IIa]

yay - I hoped he would.

If he so much as mentions the FB group, which he will, I might fap myself to def

 

[temper_tantrum]

Isn't the article libellous to Gateley's partner?

 

[Badgers]

Anyone know where Jan lives?

 

[mrsfran]

To which they'll respond 'Thanks but we can only act on complaints received by family or someone with a direct connection to the subject'

I know. But what it will do is add to the total "<number of people> complained about this article".

 

[trashpony]

Isn't the article libellous to Gateley's partner?

I would think so. I'd also think that Stephen Gateley's mother has been libelled by Moir implying she was lying about the genetic heart condition. (nb have no legal training)

 

[ExtraRefined]

headline's now "a strange, lonely and troubling death"
and the url's changed http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1220756/A-strange-lonely-troubling-death--.html

The google ads and advertorial links down the bottom are still there but there's now empty space where I think banner ads were.

You can change the last part of the link to whatever you want, although it redirects to the above it's still vaguely entertaining

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1220756/jan-moir-is-a-vapid-cunt.html

 

[kained&able]

I really don't get the new headline?

Lonely? wasn't he about to have a threesome?

Umm yeah good work on the group. Good to see that the interntz can be mad at more then just scientologists(although NEVER stop hating them)


dave

 

[5t3IIa]

Isn't the article libellous to Gateley's partner?

He'd have to complain though...I think that's the gist of the PCC response.

 

[5t3IIa]

1,753

Wow

 

[paolo]

Brooker's Guardian article is being brought forward - will be online later today.

 

[temper_tantrum]

Guardian are going to run Brooker's piece tomorrow! And it will be on the web later today apparently.

Edit: Snap!

 

[plurker]

Paul Dacre, as well as being the Mail's editor, is also the chairman of the PCC's Editors’ Code of Practice Committee.

 

[5t3IIa]

Gimme links as soon as it comes up please!

I have a cold and am getting about all my tabs

 

[paolo]

Anyone know where Jan lives?

Several thousand know. It was twittered a few hours ago.

 

[temper_tantrum]

The Guardian are now trailing their Greenslade column on the front page of their website! (top right)

 

[temper_tantrum]

NOTW showbiz reporter has Tweeted:
'Am hearing that the Press Complaints Commission has had more than 6,000 complaints over Jan Moir's v.hateful Stephen Gately piece'

http://twitter.com/simonjward

 

[5t3IIa]

Sqeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee! ^_^

 

[durruti02]

work emails j.moir200@btinternet.com jan.moir@dailymail.co.uk