We are already in a world where a too-powerful media believes they can do whatever they want, mistaking the public being interested for public interest.
There would have been no issue had the BBC simply reported the facts, but they wet themselves trying OJ Simpson-style news-porn
There would have been no issue had the BBC simply reported the facts, but they wet themselves trying OJ Simpson-style news-porn
...if BBC is so keen to report allegations of sexual assault in the public interest, where has it been on investigating the list of Tory MPs that their whips made with allegations? That all went very quiet. No helicopters over ministers houses...
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...so while I fully support a free press, I believe that comes with a responsibility for careful & thorough reporting of the facts & details - not staging news as a sensationalist TV soap opera for ratings. Pushing the latter risk an equal & opposite reaction against the former
