Phillip Schofield Media Farce

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To think this whole Phillip Schofield series of events shows how ridiculous the media is. All of this information was in the public domain for years. He first ‘admits’ the affair and today there are ‘new revelations’ but we all knew this was coming. I also knew when I clicked on it that the Daily Fail this morning that they would have some additional Sunday sensational reveal of the story. They are now also reporting ITV bosses may have ‘known’ before yesterday.
When him leaving was BBC headline news it was clear more was coming out.

It’s like a ridiculous soap story (I’m not talking about what actually happened) but the medias playing out of it. Obviously we already knew the papers are like this but social media now means we see all behind the scenes and know a lot of what previously would genuinely be shocking and we would believe the newspapers ‘had just found out’
What else do they know and are choosing not to tell us…yet?!

I think him stepping down/being sacked was right. It all seems pretty unsavoury.
But when you look at general standards in public life, where it goes
I deny it entirely
I don't remember it
I definitely wasn't told
It wasn't me, but I've referred myself to a committee and await their view.
Of course I'll resign if I'm found to have done wrong
I never said I'd resign

And so on. I think the media frenzy is somewhat misplaced

@Namechanger355 bur they’ve obviously ‘forced’ him to confess so why now and not before is my point I guess. I know there were rumours when he came out publically as gay that people said his hand had been forced so did they make a ‘deal’ then not to reveal this? Apparently it was an open secret anyway so why chose that particular time?

Super injunction, it's about to expire.

IANAL but I understood there was a big difference, legally, between an NDA and an injunction/super injunction?

You obviously don’t have even a cursory idea of media law.

they’ve been trying to publish this story since 2019 and couldn’t.

The law is heavily against the media publishing anything anymore especially anything health or sex related and especially where someone underage is involved.

Have you not seen ridiculous pictures of heavily pregnant celebrities where the the article doesn’t mention the woman is pregnant anywhere but all the comments are going “she’s pregnant duh”. It’s because until a celebrity confirms publicly she is pregnant they’re not allowed to write about it, even where it’s bleeding obvious.

the idea of some kind of conspiracy to keep the clicks coming is so laughable. It is depressing that people have so little understanding of the media and yet bash it continuously.

By your standards, morally wrong. Everyone has a different take on morals. Legally, at present, he has done nothing wrong.

Surely him being dropped by ITV and his agent hints that there is something more than morally wrong that happened

I would expect he is currently a suicide risk.

@HiKenHiKenHiKen well done you on being so much more knowledgeable than us mere mortals

I'd doubt he is he's too full of his self and narcissistic to do that.

Agreed. But I think this is the nub of it What else do they know and are choosing not to tell us…yet?!

The "coming out". performance was to cover up the bigger story about the young boyfriend and I don't doubt that behind this "story" is a far bigger one

It is amazing how many “articles” they can make with one new sentence that’s been uttered or tweeted in the last few hours.

Thanks for alerting us to this. I'd completely missed this story.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/may/27/nhs-data-breach-trusts-shared-patient-details-with-facebook-meta-without-consent

An Observer investigation has uncovered a covert tracking tool in the websites of 20 NHS trusts which has for years collected browsing information and shared it with the tech giant in a major breach of privacy.
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Multiple trusts said they had originally installed the tracking pixels to monitor recruitment or charity campaigns and were not aware that they were sending patient data to Facebook. The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) is investigating.