We have all now seen that photograph. We all now know the name of the anonymous BBC person. Despite the law saying we shouldn’t. This is one of the ghastly things about modern society.
Those of us with brains know that photo may well be a photoshopped image. It is so easy to do - I could almost do it myself. Yet we really don’t want to think that. It ruins a great story.
We don’t mind that lives have been ruined, careers wrecked, memories defiled, families destroyed. In this century, who cares? We are only interested if we are directly involved.
We all know that, in the last century, a newspaper getting the story that a celebrity liked going on dating apps would have provoked a sting operation by hacks - who would have set up a fake, got photos and then published the great story.
When police did this (George Michael) the public started to go off ENTRAPMENT. But media continued to do it.
Why didn’t the tabloid concerned do that with the anonymous BBC presenter? Because, these days, media is generally rubbish; incompetent; useless.
We saw that during the phone hacking scandal - only one paper knew how to hide their use of it. The rest were brain dead. It’s cost them a fortune.
We all know this attempt to destroy someone who appears to have done nothing illegal is shocking and may end up with the accused person either jailed, ruined or dead.
We all know this is just another step along the False Allegations Industry developing.
Mainly exaggeration but often totally invention.
We all know that, in future months, Keir Starmer will find his career destroyed.
We don’t know whether it will be bared buttocks or an inflated curry and beer scandal but, one way or the other, he’ll be “exposed”.
So, probably, will Rishi Sunak.
This is the crime of the century, as I predicted when it happened to me in 2000, thanks to Max Clifford and Surrey Police.
It’s a good way to quash opposition.
Those making the law will be found to be breaking the law.
Those reading the news will be making the news.
Those in media will be destroyed by media.
Those in religion will be condemned by religion.
Those in the sun will be reflected in the mirror.
Alice has truly walked through the Looking Glass.

as I said..the spotlight will eventually be turned on the Witch finders (police and media etc) as it is the nature of a witch hunt.

the modern media is out of control and toss in social media and AI and society is heading down the drain.

# just watching the news on my beloved SBS TV station in Oz (lots of foreign films) and they did a lengthy item on the 'BBC scandal".
I despair

I haven’t seen any photo and know nothing. Piers Morgan, though, predicts this presenter business is going to blow up into a mega scandal.

Not known by many of us in Scandinavia. Anyhow, one person’s household name might be another’s “never heard of him”. Or could be someone off a small daytime show no one watches.

ChilliJonCarne has a very balanced take. BTW it's not my money, I don't pay for a licence because I don't watch live TV I don't even have an antenna. The BBC are smug because it's not their money the government don't have money it's our money.

Tea.

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Tea.


Is it a blackmail situation?

I came here because I thought these posts or these forums were about the music business. Wrong.

Like the Scandy above, I don’t know UK TV presenters but would have guessed it was a newsreader who was the culprit.

Vot??

It used to be Tipsheet for music, YourViews for other topics John. As events took hold and the music industry declined, so did posts on the Tipsheet whereas they exploded on Your Views. The standard regular quantity of 10,000 views a day to the site shifted away from the Tipsheet, which now almost exclusively gets SPAM posts.