to think that Dispatches is about us?

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And if it isn't about us, then it probably should be?

The number of names bandied around today and in previous witch hunts just show how dangerous social media trials can be. Imagine seeing the names of your friends and family touted as possible suspects?

I'm hoping that it's a big ruse to get everyone to tune in to actual real time tele to be given a kick and a shake and be responsible for what we post on line.

And has Dispatches ever been called Despatches?

If it was about us, it would be very boring and not the biggest news story of the year

I think you could be right.

Dispatched being shown this evening? I thought it was going to be about predatory behaviour in the comedy circuit?

It’s not about me - I’m not posting on or reading the speculative threads, I don’t care much about celebrity gossip and won’t watch Dispatches. If it’s important it’ll be on the news.

I mean this apparently took 3 years to research. Maybe it's linked to Lucy letby

No of course it's not about us!! (I'm assuming you mean MN and social media users speculating)? However, if it's about what's being alleged, then for any woman that's suffered harassment, rape, predatory behaviour etc etc then yes, it most certainly is about us, and for that reason, I will be watching.

Alternatively, maybe I'll be eating my words this evening and will be back here to issue you a grovelling apology OP! 😂

The news often misses important stuff and uses trivia

I agree if it's about a celeb, it's not going to be important.

I won't be watching either but I assumed the OP was using 'us' in a general sense.

It's about RB. We already know that.

It's already been said it's Russell Brand

People were saying this on thethread last night. I like itxas an idea but it's unlijely

It won't be the biggest news story of the year, that's hyperbole on their part. The biggest news story (based on clicks) will probably be some trashy celebrity or royal story. Dispatches will be doing something political or a widespread institutional cover up. But I don't know what. After Savile I don't think anything any rich powerful men do will be a surprise. It's just same old same old. So not the biggest story.

Won't be watching it, will be at work.

please read the previous threads... already confirmed . its all about the henious crimes of bagpuss

Didn't we have this "mega revelations, watch this space! " recently and when it all came out it was bit "meh"?
There will be some government bomb hidden by this PR again.

Yes, it's about how my theft of pick and mix when I was 13 has brought down Wilkinsons

@CaptainMyCaptain and I’m excluding myself from that ‘us’. If she meant, ‘I think it’s about gossipy people on social media’ she shouldn’t have used ‘us’.

So have we established beyond all reasonable doubt that Hartley Hare is innocent ?

That poor persecuted Lagomorph <sigh>

I think you make a valid point. This place is increasingly like a pitchfork-wielding mob that has lost all sense of humanity.

But it brings traffic and therefore £££ to the site, therefore it's allowed to continue.

😂thanks for that info. I was wondering 😂

I think safe to assume everyone is guilty... I heard some really disturbing rumours about sooty as well :-(. nothing is safe. I am just going to switch off the TV and sit quietly wearing my tin hat ...

I agree if it's about a celeb, it's not going to be important

Pretty important to their victims I imagine. It might not be important to you, but that doesn't mean its not important.

Not about me, trial by social media will never end well.

All the other threads need are a few key posters sitting by the guillotine and knitting. 😡

Just to clarify, I mean us as in the users of social media. Each of you reading this is interested enough to have clicked on the thread to read it, even if you are going to be at work later ......

You don't need to be writing the comments to do the damage, reading them is just as bad.

It's about David Walliams