The latest Nonce: Max Clifford!!

[RedRobin]

Part of the problem is that even if you're 100% you never quite recover from allegations like this being spread across the media.

Look at Christopher Jefferies who was wrongly accused of murdering Jo Yeates. His life was ruined by totally false allegations being spread across every newspaper going.

....So tragically true! That's exactly what I was going to point out too 

[monte]

  How many celebs is that now???

[RedRobin]

How many celebs is that now???

....I'm not counting but I think I read that the Police had dozens to check out. However, if I read it in a newspaper..............   

As comedian Billy Connolly once said: "I read it (about himself) in The Sun, so it must be true!" 

[rich83]

Part of the problem is that even if you're 100% innocent you never quite recover from allegations like this being spread across the media.

Look at Christopher Jefferies who was wrongly accused of murdering Jo Yeates. His life was ruined by totally false allegations appearing in every newspaper going. The British public too readily believe what they are told without questioning it.

The media are to blame....

[Hedge]

I agree about the media and it's tw4ts like Clifford that add fuel to the fire.

[RedRobin]

I agree about the media and it's tw4ts like Clifford that add fuel to the fire.

....There's a strong irony about that 

[andrewparker]

I don't disagree, but you can't think that the media are responsible for the general public losing their common sense and ability to think for themselves.

[Hedge]

I agree about the media and it's tw4ts like Clifford that add fuel to the fire.

....There's a strong irony about that  

I know. Very amusing.  

[Hedge]

I don't disagree, but you can't think that the media are responsible for the general public losing their common sense and ability to think for themselves.

No they have done that all by themselves. 

[andrewparker]

By the way, I suddenly became aware that I might sound as if I'm defending Clifford. For the record, I am 100% not. Couldn't have happened to a nicer bloke.

[Horatio]

Im sure this video didnt help things. I can only guess people are scurrying to airports and islands right now. If he goes down, Im sure he'll release the boat load of information on the top level pedo's. But of course, that'll never happen. Instead, he'll end up being given massive compensation and the clamp down on the free press will be even tighter. 

[rich83]

I don't disagree, but you can't think that the media are responsible for the general public losing their common sense and ability to think for themselves.

Correct.... but its the MEDIA that feed us all this sh*t, they tell us what they think we want to know. This is one reason why I don't watch the news and don't read news papers. I do my "newsfinding" online where I choose what I want to read.

If it wasn't for the media we would be out of the recession already.

[Greeners]

I don't disagree, but you can't think that the media are responsible for the general public losing their common sense and ability to think for themselves.

Correct.... but its the MEDIA that feed us all this sh*t, they tell us what they think we want to know. This is one reason why I don't watch the news and don't read news papers. I do my "newsfinding" online where I choose what I want to read.

If it wasn't for the media we would be out of the recession already.

I agree with that 100%!

[RedRobin]

I don't disagree, but you can't think that the media are responsible for the general public losing their common sense and ability to think for themselves.

....But since when have the general public ever had much common sense and ability to think for themselves?

[Am I sounding like an oily Tory public schoolboy?]

In some ways, the media reflect the general public - It's an ironic relationship just as it is with Max Clifford and the media.

[MC71]

Couldn't care less about that Max Clifford, makes his living as a parasite. If its true I hope the prison guard leaves his cell door open one day and some nice chap uses him appropriately.

 The one that shocked me was Stuart Hall, a hero of my yoof,  Where will this end?? As a parent I physically feel sick in the pit of my stomach when reading of hearing these kinds of allegations. Sad times IMO.