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Topic History of: Andy Coulson - wrong, wrong, wrong
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JK2006 |
VC - nobody is doubting the morality or motives of the media or the vile NOTW. But I reckon they have picked the wrong crime to prosecute. The ghastly destruction of human beings offended me as a teenager (a dogging scandal about a married couple who, as a result, killed themselves in the late 50s/early 60s) made me vow to close down the paper. The People, Mail and others are as bad - as can be the "broadsheets".
They only want a good story. Nothing else matters. But in chasing the Milly Dowler "good story" ("she's alive and we saved her") they behaved wrongly but understandably. By the way, I think it's been proven they didn't delete those messages. Everything they did (in trying to get a good story and big profits) could have helped, not hindered. OK, so they gave the poor parents "false hope". Is that so bad? Or harmful? A few more hours of hope before devastation?
No, the constant, evil pandering to the worst in human nature is their biggest crime (still going on, just ask Cyril or Jimmy). Encouraging crime (false allegations). Ruining lives (affairs revealed). |
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hedda |
JK2006 wrote:
No she wasn't presumed dead - and the papers did tell the police, only after they put their far more efficient trackers onto it. Tacky? Possibly but I would have thought, if it had found her and saved her life, it would have been acceptable.
but they didn't.
you may as well claim you robbed the bank to distribute the cash to the needy.
the judge will disagree.
In the real world the 'ends justifies the means' doesn't wash and the one place where it really doesn't- is in the media.
The real problem is that the media now creates the news rather than report it. It drives public opinion and drives political change whether good or bad.
that is corruption and nothing else. |
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VC |
Hang on people!!!.......it wasn't merely the fact that they listened to the messages it's the fact they subsequently deleted the messages, thus giving the false impression that Milly had listened to them and may therefore still be alive. Worth considering the confusion this could've caused!
It was a despicable act, please do not kid yourselves News International aren't ever primarily motivated by anything other than sales! |
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JK2006 |
No she wasn't presumed dead - and the papers did tell the police, only after they put their far more efficient trackers onto it. Tacky? Possibly but I would have thought, if it had found her and saved her life, it would have been acceptable. |
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honey!oh sugar sugar. |
It was assumed that the child was dead. Missing children who are probably alive dont make the papers. Anyway, listening to private messages of people live or dead is tacky and in the unlikely event of the journalists knowing of a technique that the police were unaware of, they should have told them! |
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