Christopher Jefferies. Hope I Am Never A Murder Suspect!

[petitpal]

I've never understood why people don't get anonymity until proven guilty :?

I've never understood why people buy tabloids.

+1 to that

 

[Neil]

I've never understood why people don't get anonymity until proven guilty :?

I've never understood why people buy tabloids.

What's to understand - surely it's one of the scenarios that the bell curve doesn't completely oversimplify?

 

[DM]

I've never understood why people buy tabloids.

Basically, I suspect it's because they're "mouth-breathers" who either know no better or simply don't care about their moronic gullibility.
There, I said it.

 

[1duck]

What i want to know is why we get severely censored news about say the royal family or pseudo celebrities whilst normal people have zero protection.

Injunctions, super injunctions or Faustian pacts.

I remember the story a few years ago about prince charles that was reported everywhere in the world, but not in britain...a quick google could bring up the results from thousands of sites but yet the british press weren't allowed to report the story.

Was it family related?

I guess all the relates to the super injunction / privacy debate / thread that occurred on here a while back. Most enforced privacy (beyond family court, or information on minors) is largely served to those that can afford it - whereas those that should surely deserve privacy, until proved otherwise, don't get it. Not least of all that can be a bad thing in terms of sub judice.

Family...in the biblical sense? i wouldn't fancy getting in trouble for posting it if there is a mega injunction on it, basically the butler / man servant had some very sordid stories about the prince. Whether it was true or not i don't know but if it wasn't true i would imagine he would have been sued for libel rather than having the thing blocked as they did.

 

[Ycawsfach]

Newspapers in general, but tabloids in particular (and I include the Daily Mail although they don't like being compared to the Sun/Mirror) always hide behind the mantra of "Freedom of the Press" when justifying their sleazy methods of gathering and printing gossip. They insult the principle.

They also use the phrase "in the public interest" when what they mean is "of interest to those members of the public who love a scandal (and who buy our papers)"

:twisted: :twisted: :twisted:

 

[Neil]

Newspapers in general, but tabloids in particular (and I include the Daily Mail although they don't like being compared to the Sun/Mirror) always hide behind the mantra of "Freedom of the Press" when justifying their sleazy methods of gathering and printing gossip. They insult the principle.

Sometimes there's no real defence.

Can't remember his name, now, but there's a guy that always seems to be involved in the TV discussions about press freedom and over stepping the mark. And he spouts the most unpersonable, unpersuasive, morally bereft, deflective hand-waving arguments or defence of the press activity. I'm honestly amazed they use him, unless he's invited as something of a subversive undermining of the press' cause.

They also use the phrase "in the public interest" when what they mean is "of interest to those members of the public who love a scandal (and who buy our papers)"

As is often pointed out, they seem quite happy to conflate things that "the public are interested in" with "in the public interest".

 

[Drencrom]

I've never understood why people buy tabloids.

Basically, I suspect it's because they're "mouth-breathers" who either know no better or simply don't care about their moronic gullibility.
There, I said it.

I didn't want to say it, but yeah.

 

[marky2484]

So, who on earth is buying all these tabloid newspapers -as we've already established it's none of us..............

 

[apache]

Jif an American sees someone driving down the street in a Cadillac they'll say, "how can I get one of those?" - a British person will say, "God, what an awful car - give me a DB9 any day".

Fixed that for you

 

[petitpal]

Jif an American sees someone driving down the street in a Cadillac they'll say, "how can I get one of those?" - a British person will say, "God, what an awful car - give me a DB9 any day".

Fixed that for you