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[QUOTE=Superprecise;1022835]Why do you not except that as an apology? She addresses every contentious issueQUOTE]
My main problem with it is that she defends herself by saying her column was 'misinterpreted', that the backlash was an orchestrated campaign - welcome, Daily Mail, to the interweb; and just because its an orchestrated campaign doesn't mean that those people who sign up to it are any less angry - and she rounds it off by saying are we becoming a society where no one can dare question the circumstances or behaviour of a person.
Well, yes, if it's based on fact. Her original premise was that there had been some sleazy aspect to Gately's death - but that was just innuendo. No evidence of a hedonistic lifestyle except a spliff or two and a random shag. And nothing in the coroner's report to suggest any suspicious circumstance. Which kind of invalidates the whole of the original piece...