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  • Good to see the news companies making the news;

    A statement was read out on behalf of Bulley’s family, which was predominantly an excoriating assessment of the media response to her disappearance.

    “And it saddens us to think that one day we will have to explain to them that the press and members of the public accused their dad of wrongdoing, misquoted and vilified friends and family. This is absolutely appalling, they have to be held accountable, this cannot happen to another family.”

    The family singled out ITV and Sky News for making contact with them directly on Sunday night after police confirmed a body had been found, adding they had asked for privacy.

  • predominantly an excoriating assessment of the media response

    Deservedly so. The journos in the press conference earlier last week were also falling over each other to ask what her ‘specific vulnerabilities’ were, only to fire a broadside at the police when they told them (after they had published/broadcast the information, of course) and then only to point the finger elsewhere because there was a public backlash. Hypocrisy in the press… who’d have thought.

    Water off ducks’ backs though.

  • Water off ducks’ backs though.

    That's because the audience are even more hypocritical than the press. People moan about the immorality of journalists while lapping up anything which has a mean-spirited angle. Journalists for the high circulation media don't keep their jobs if they don't give the readers what they want. Harry says the tabloids killed his mother, but they only did it because the readers wanted tabloid garbage. The same readers then went to the palace to cry and leave flowers.

    It's hard to think of worse hypocrites than the British public. But generally you're not allowed to criticise the readers or the other media. There's an omerta about it. Except in Private Eye, which is one of the very few British outlets where you can see what journalists would like to produce if they weren't slaves to the public and the proprietors. The New Statesman is another.

    A lot of people go into journalism with a public service ethos. But they also want their ego to be fanned. Then they come under pressure to be cunts. And they see that many of the most successful journalists are completely cunty. British columnists cornered the market in shitposting for a long time. Now they are competing for clicks with the likes of Marjorie Taylor Greene and Andrew Tate and so on.

    I don't think the press or the public are nearly as bad in other countries. We British are exceptionally vicious and nasty and cynical, and our papers reflect that. Perhaps it's because of our class system? Or using the monarchy as zoo animals?

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