Classic mis-reporting by some goose who claims he is the "European Correspondent"

perhaps he's in a cave somewhere in Spain.

Family in denial as TV channel pulls shows

using the term In Denial in that way...it gives certainty to something that doesn't exist : that somehow Rolf Harris has committed some crime and his family will not accept it...rather than the truth : his family are saying he has done nothing wrong.

and the last line : "Harris' agent and lawyers have maintained their silence on the accusations."

what accusations ?

meanwhile for some sanity read this series especially Frank Furedi on Spiked

Yes Hedda - what frightens me is that nobody in the media dares print the other side of the story; not that I agree with either extreme; the truth is usually somewhere in the middle (I suspect, as in my case, the truth is that the 60s and 70s were a very different moral area - example: homosexuality was a crime then; now it's only a crime if one of the willing two is of the same gender but under 16).

Anna Raccoon is totally flabbergasted that some of the facts she has unearthed have not been published by the traditional media. As an old hack herself, like you and I, she finds the most extraordinary thing of all is that editors are deliberately ignoring a great story.

Fans of George Orwell understand why.

And another point to back up the one you're making Hedda; isn't it truly disturbing that now virtually everyone describes Jimmy Savile as guilty whereas he was, is and remains technically innocent unless and until proven guilty?

It appears mere semantics; I challenge that; I think it's seriously lazy thinking and actually criminal behaviour (certainly would be if he were alive; I wonder how a law suit against those libelling a dead man would fare?).

JK2006 wrote:
And another point to back up the one you're making Hedda; isn't it truly disturbing that now virtually everyone describes Jimmy Savile as guilty whereas he was, is and remains technically innocent unless and until proven guilty?

It appears mere semantics; I challenge that; I think it's seriously lazy thinking and actually criminal behaviour (certainly would be if he were alive; I wonder how a law suit against those libelling a dead man would fare?).

It could perhaps be excused if there had been a crime committed with several witnesses but in the case of Jimmy Savile I still haven't seen any real evidence to support the claims, and some of them are quite ridiculous.
It looks as if you CAN fool all the people all of the time after all!

headline now changed after several emails to the online editor from Hedda :

Rolf Harris' family and friends rally as TV channel pulls shows

hedda rules !!

Well done Hedda. Guerilla warfare; doncha jes luv it?

hedda wrote:
headline now changed after several emails to the online editor from Hedda :

Rolf Harris' family and friends rally as TV channel pulls shows

hedda rules !!

Go Hedda! I think they might have accidentally employed someone who reads the complaints.
I have spent years hounding them about the ridiculous eating disorder stories and photos they churn out (I help run a voluntary support group for carers and sufferers) and all of a sudden they have listened and changed it.