Her whole raison d'être is to get people talking about what she's said. If people ignore her, she's failed.
What she's said is utterly despicable, but it's not the first time she's outraged and probably not the last and she delights in the attention. Removing the oxygen of publicity is a viable option.
I agree with 99% of what you say (especially when it comes to cycling), but ignoring people calling other humans "cockroaches" is not the type of thing I think we should let become acceptable discourse in the national media.
I agree. If the 200k people who'd taken the easy option of signing an online petition had taken the extra step of reporting her to whatever the Press Complaints Commission is called now she'd be out of a job.
I sometimes think we over estimate the power of social media.
Her whole raison d'être is to get people talking about what she's said. If people ignore her, she's failed.
What she's said is utterly despicable, but it's not the first time she's outraged and probably not the last and she delights in the attention. Removing the oxygen of publicity is a viable option.