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Post by politician2 on Jul 18, 2023 10:04:06 GMT
That Guardian article makes sense to me Politicain . Really? She's advancing two contradictory arguments simultaneously: that we should be more like America, where newspapers can't be sued for printing falsehoods unless they were clearly motivated by malice; and that newspapers should be required to conduct more research so that they don't print falsehoods. Newspapers would have less incentive to check their stories thoroughly if the bar for libel were set lower, meaning we'd see more stories like the one about Edwards. |
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Post by stu77 on Jul 18, 2023 13:03:49 GMT
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Jul 19, 2023 14:33:06 GMT
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Post by Lord Emsworth on Jul 19, 2023 14:33:06 GMT
Interesting how this story is not making front page headlines in the right wing tabloids... GB News Star Dan Wootton Unmasked in Cash-for-Sexual Images Catfishing ScandalGB News presenter and MailOnline columnist Dan Wootton hid behind fake online identities to trick and bribe scores of men into revealing compromising sexual material, Byline Times can reveal in the first part of a three-year special investigation.
The 40-year-old broadcaster and self-styled voice against ‘woke’ culture – whose show Dan Wootton Tonight is the biggest ratings winner on the UK’s fourth-most watched news channel – targeted journalistic colleagues, friends and members of the public for at least 10 years.
Byline Times has extensive evidence to show that, between June 2008 and 2018, Wootton – who is gay – posed as a fictitious showbusiness agent called “Martin Branning” to offer sums of up to £30,000 “tax free” to his targets, many of whom were heterosexual men.
Among them are a very senior executive at Rupert Murdoch’s News UK alongside at least six other staff at The Sun newspaper – one with close links to News UK CEO Rebekah Brooks – friends, Facebook associates and users of the dating apps Grindr and Gaydar.
Two of the targets made criminal complaints to Scotland Yard without knowing the real identity of their tormentor with detectives aware of the activities of Branning – whose name is a portmanteau of EastEnders characters Martin Fowler and Max Branning – since 2019.Rest here... bylinetimes.com/2023/07/17/gb-news-star-dan-wootton-unmasked-in-cash-for-sexual-images-catfishing-scandal/Examples of the hate filled bile he writes for the Mail... www.dailymail.co.uk/home/search.html?sel=site&searchPhrase=Dan+Wootton |
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Jul 19, 2023 14:41:30 GMT
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Post by Lord Emsworth on Jul 19, 2023 14:41:30 GMT
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Post by doug61 on Jul 19, 2023 15:57:19 GMT
Nasty piece of shite is Wooton.
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Jul 19, 2023 16:52:02 GMT
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Post by stu77 on Jul 19, 2023 16:52:02 GMT
Best eaten cold. Best eaten cold.
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Post by stu77 on Aug 16, 2023 20:23:13 GMT
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Post by doug61 on Aug 17, 2023 13:47:06 GMT
Just started watching the first season of "Annika", had never even heard of it as I don't keep up with TV anymore. Nicola Walker continues to be the top cop on TV for me though, wonderful actress.
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Post by personunknown on Jul 31, 2024 16:20:14 GMT
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Post by Lord Emsworth on Jul 31, 2024 17:30:48 GMT
Blimey
Banged to rights
Can never get my head around why anyone would do this
I’d be surprised if he doesn’t get some prison time. Then again there’s not much space so that might factor in
Either way he’s finished and can barely show his graces in public ever again
PU, I’ve got no idea who the one to be outed is
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Post by politician2 on Jul 31, 2024 19:52:48 GMT
Edwards has indeed been exposed for what he is, The Sun has been proved correct in naming him as a wrong 'un, and The Guardian – whose tenth-rate columnist Arwa Mahdawi I quoted on the previous page – has once again found itself on the wrong side of history.
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