Re: News International – the story continues : Mon Mar 05, 2012 10:54 am  

I caught last night's That Sunday Night Show and although Adrian Childs is not my cup of java, he had that odious twat Paul McMullan, ex journo from NotW. Well worth watching on ITV player, he appears about 9 minutes 30 seconds in. He really is a nasty-minded creep

I caught last night's That Sunday Night Show and although Adrian Childs is not my cup of java, he had that odious twat Paul McMullan, ex journo from NotW. Well worth watching on ITV player, he appears about 9 minutes 30 seconds in. He really is a nasty-minded creep

Re: News International – the story continues : Mon Mar 05, 2012 4:55 pm  

cod'ead wrote: I caught last night's That Sunday Night Show and although Adrian Childs is not my cup of java, he had that odious twat Paul McMullan, ex journo from NotW. Well worth watching on ITV player, he appears about 9 minutes 30 seconds in. He really is a nasty-minded creep I thought Frank Skinner did a better job. Made him look a right tit.

cod'ead wrote: I caught last night's That Sunday Night Show and although Adrian Childs is not my cup of java, he had that odious twat Paul McMullan, ex journo from NotW. Well worth watching on ITV player, he appears about 9 minutes 30 seconds in. He really is a nasty-minded creep I thought Frank Skinner did a better job. Made him look a right tit.

Re: News International – the story continues : Mon Mar 05, 2012 5:32 pm  

Seems it's not only News International who are massive dicks. "The natural father of Baby P has been awarded £75,000 against the publishers of The People after being wrongly described as a sex offender convicted of raping a 14-year-old girl." And yet they want to appeal because they think the damages awarded are 'disproportionate'. Don't want to pay out £75k? Don't accuse someone of being a paedophile without evidence.

Seems it's not only News International who are massive dicks. "The natural father of Baby P has been awarded £75,000 against the publishers of The People after being wrongly described as a sex offender convicted of raping a 14-year-old girl." And yet they want to appeal because they think the damages awarded are 'disproportionate'. Don't want to pay out £75k? Don't accuse someone of being a paedophile without evidence.

Re: News International – the story continues : Mon Mar 05, 2012 5:40 pm  

Rock God X wrote: Seems it's not only News International who are massive dicks. "The natural father of Baby P has been awarded £75,000 against the publishers of The People after being wrongly described as a sex offender convicted of raping a 14-year-old girl." And yet they want to appeal because they think the damages awarded are 'disproportionate'. Don't want to pay out £75k? Don't accuse someone of being a paedophile without evidence. All media organisations have made mistakes – that should be obvious. Their behaviour over this seems frankly pathetic to me. I think the judge was correct in saying what an appalling accusation it is. But I do think that what we're finding out is that there was a culture of – not even sloppiness or lack of fact checking etc – but a culture of corruption and criminal activity that existed in at least two titles from the same stable. And, as I have mentioned, it may well not be a coincidence that this stable was one that had barred independent trades unions and replaced them with a compliant, in-house 'staff association'.

Rock God X wrote: Seems it's not only News International who are massive dicks. "The natural father of Baby P has been awarded £75,000 against the publishers of The People after being wrongly described as a sex offender convicted of raping a 14-year-old girl." And yet they want to appeal because they think the damages awarded are 'disproportionate'. Don't want to pay out £75k? Don't accuse someone of being a paedophile without evidence. All media organisations have made mistakes – that should be obvious. Their behaviour over this seems frankly pathetic to me. I think the judge was correct in saying what an appalling accusation it is. But I do think that what we're finding out is that there was a culture of – not even sloppiness or lack of fact checking etc – but a culture of corruption and criminal activity that existed in at least two titles from the same stable. And, as I have mentioned, it may well not be a coincidence that this stable was one that had barred independent trades unions and replaced them with a compliant, in-house 'staff association'.

Re: News International – the story continues : Mon Mar 05, 2012 5:48 pm  

Mintball wrote:

All media organisations have made mistakes – that should be obvious.

I think as far as mistakes go, this one is inexcusable. I mean, it's not like they wrongly accused someone of shagging Jordan, or anything. If you're going to go to print with an accusation of paedophilia, you check and double check you have your facts 100% right. Unless you don't care one jot about whose life you might ruin if you get it wrong, as long as you sell papers.

Mintball wrote:

Their behaviour over this seems frankly pathetic to me.

I'd say it was bordering on immoral. Paying up without causing their victim any more suffering is the very least they could do, given the nature of the allegations. If anything, I thought the damages were on the low side.

Re: News International – the story continues : Mon Mar 05, 2012 6:11 pm  

Yes but the person on the receiving end here was that nasty nasty Baby P murderer, and Baby P was much loved by all the media and public who never knew him, so therefore deserves to be called a paedophile/rapist/etc etc....

That was sarcasm

Re: News International – the story continues : Mon Mar 05, 2012 6:57 pm  

100% Wire wrote:

Yes but the person on the receiving end here was that nasty nasty Baby P murderer,

It was Baby P's father, not his murderer.

Re: News International – the story continues : Mon Mar 05, 2012 6:57 pm  

Rock God X wrote:

Unless you don't care one jot about whose life you might ruin if you get it wrong, as long as you sell papers.

Give that man a cigar.
They all wrongly thought they were untouchable.

Rock God X wrote:

I'd say it was bordering on immoral. Paying up without causing their victim any more suffering is the very least they could do, given the nature of the allegations. If anything, I thought the damages were on the low side.

This is what happens when folks are so used to doing and getting away with what the hell they want, They lose all sense of realism and moral's

Re: News International – the story continues : Mon Mar 05, 2012 7:25 pm  

Mintball wrote:

And, as I have mentioned, it may well not be a coincidence that this stable was one that had barred independent trades unions and replaced them with a compliant, in-house 'staff association'.

The self-same staff who have recently been scurrying to the NUJ to help them out?

Surely not!

Re: News International – the story continues : Fri Mar 09, 2012 5:50 pm  

Leveson could prejudice a fair trial So Rebekah Brooks's lawyer is claiming. After a culture of systemically subverting justice, all in the name of flogging a few more papers, it's a bit rich claiming that as a defence.

Leveson could prejudice a fair trial So Rebekah Brooks's lawyer is claiming. After a culture of systemically subverting justice, all in the name of flogging a few more papers, it's a bit rich claiming that as a defence.