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do you worry about the power of the press?

10 replies

crochetmonkey74 · 11/03/2024 13:14

Just that really- I find recent events really worrying
Nicola Bulley, Phillip Schofield and Huw Edwards and now this Royal family photo. The press stir up and encourage pile ons, social media frenzy. It's scary!

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BobbyBiscuits · 11/03/2024 16:36

They are desperate to stay relevant in a world where information is everywhere. Most tabloid journalists just take stuff from twitter or do such shite research. It's never been less powerful as a medium for moulding public opinion.

ShirleyPhallus · 11/03/2024 16:37

I worry about the stupidity of the general public tbh

Mayorq · 11/03/2024 16:39

The photo furor is more the power of the internet surely.

Amateur sleuths and conspiracy theorists driving the narrative.

The press were happy to run with the pic and the mail even did a fucking diagram of how natural it was

HeddaGarbled · 11/03/2024 16:46

No. I think a free press is even more important to counteract the influence of idiots on social media stirred up by populist politicians and malign influencers.

Hillarious · 11/03/2024 16:52

And the public just lap up what's out there.

LemonRoll · 11/03/2024 17:05

It's crazy!

Child has picked in dress and tassel on boot - someone has bumped her mother off.

Sparetoes · 11/03/2024 17:08

No, I worry far more about the press being muzzled. The Schofield and Edwards stories needed to come out, how else was it going to happen. How else do we stop predators thinking they can get away with anything indefinitely?

The RF should be held to account. The current controversy is entirely down to their mismanagement of what should be straightforward assuming there isn't something to hide

EasternStandard · 11/03/2024 17:12

It’s more a combination of SM and the press

All of us commenting create the demand

HamiltonHarty · 11/03/2024 17:16

I worry about the power of the press to stir up hatred against any section of society they choose, to suit their own ends. I know that there are plenty of people who are gullible enough to be influenced by it.

dessyh · 11/03/2024 17:47

Not in relation to those examples OP.

Nicola Bulley's family begged for more and more coverage because they believed she'd come to harm at the hands of a predator.

Philip Schofield built his reputation as a straight family man and held those in power accountable as such. He came out as gay only when a young man he dated threatened to reveal their history. That being, PS met him as a child, contacted him while still a child, gave him a sought after job as soon as he was 18 and started dating him from a position of power before shunting him off when the young man unraveled.

Huw Edwards. Similar straight family man in hugely high profile position interviewing powerful figures. Then sending nudes on grindr. Multiple sexual harassment complaints from much younger, less powerful colleagues.

Why would anyone want that to be kept a secret for him. For the press to NOT report those things.

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