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Thread: This weekend I have mostly found out that someone called Caroline Flack existed

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  1. #1
    Quote Originally Posted by Burney View Post
    and that I should apparently be sad that she no longer does.

    I hate it when this sort of thing happens. It forces me to confront aspects of popular culture I've spent years deliberately avoiding.
    I'd heard of her but wouldn't know her if I stepped on her.

    Some juicy stuff must have been coming up at the trial, that's all I can think of all this.
    “Other clubs never came into my thoughts once I knew Arsenal wanted to sign me.”

  2. #2
    Quote Originally Posted by IUFG View Post
    I'd heard of her but wouldn't know her if I stepped on her.

    Some juicy stuff must have been coming up at the trial, that's all I can think of all this.
    Apparently she was terrified about the use of police body cam footage at the trail. Presumably she was behaving like a psychopath.

    Do we think that there would be this outpouring of grief had it been a guy committing suicide after beating his girlfriend to within an inch of her life? The press sure aren’t perfect but I see them reporting nothing but facts in this case.

  3. #3
    Quote Originally Posted by Rich View Post
    Apparently she was terrified about the use of police body cam footage at the trail. Presumably she was behaving like a psychopath.

    Do we think that there would be this outpouring of grief had it been a guy committing suicide after beating his girlfriend to within an inch of her life? The press sure aren’t perfect but I see them reporting nothing but facts in this case.
    She was the lamp-wielding, boyfriend-battering Queen of Our Hearts, r.

    Anyone saying otherwise is just a misogynist.

  4. #4
    Quote Originally Posted by Burney View Post
    She was the lamp-wielding, boyfriend-battering Queen of Our Hearts, r.

    Anyone saying otherwise is just a misogynist.
    #Carolineslaw

  5. #5
    Quote Originally Posted by Rich View Post
    Apparently she was terrified about the use of police body cam footage at the trail. Presumably she was behaving like a psychopath.

    Do we think that there would be this outpouring of grief had it been a guy committing suicide after beating his girlfriend to within an inch of her life? The press sure aren’t perfect but I see them reporting nothing but facts in this case.
    How strange that aa doctor is taking an issue of mental health so lightly.
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  6. #6
    Quote Originally Posted by Pokster View Post
    How strange that aa doctor is taking an issue of mental health so lightly.
    Sorry, but are you suggesting that reporters ought to soft-pedal stories about the criminal behaviour of public figures just in case they huff off and top themselves?

    I'm not sure that a willingness to give in to emotional blackmail is a good basis for a free press.

  7. #7
    Quote Originally Posted by Burney View Post
    Sorry, but are you suggesting that reporters ought to soft-pedal stories about the criminal behaviour of public figures just in case they huff off and top themselves?

    I'm not sure that a willingness to give in to emotional blackmail is a good basis for a free press.
    She has been hounded by the press for the last few months, she was obviously suffering sever mental health issues (threats to kill herself, self harm) , and as far as i'm aware she hadn't been found guilty of anything. Her boyfirend (who was very drunk at the time) called the police, anmd who also didn't want her charged, so who knows what she had done and what she hadn't done.
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  8. #8
    Quote Originally Posted by Pokster View Post
    She has been hounded by the press for the last few months, she was obviously suffering sever mental health issues (threats to kill herself, self harm) , and as far as i'm aware she hadn't been found guilty of anything. Her boyfirend (who was very drunk at the time) called the police, anmd who also didn't want her charged, so who knows what she had done and what she hadn't done.
    Doesn't matter that he withdrew the complaint, CPS believed they would get a conviction. She was also given a restraining order initially.

  9. #9
    Quote Originally Posted by PSRB View Post
    Doesn't matter that he withdrew the complaint, CPS believed they would get a conviction. She was also given a restraining order initially.
    Correct, but she has been hounded by the press when they kneww full well of her mental health issues, that is also a fact. There is the usual talk that things will change, but they won't, the press try to sell papers/advertising/click bait so they won't give a damn, ont the next celeb and damn the consequences
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  10. #10
    Quote Originally Posted by Pokster View Post
    She has been hounded by the press for the last few months, she was obviously suffering sever mental health issues (threats to kill herself, self harm) , and as far as i'm aware she hadn't been found guilty of anything. Her boyfirend (who was very drunk at the time) called the police, anmd who also didn't want her charged, so who knows what she had done and what she hadn't done.
    By 'hounded', you mean 'faced the media scrutiny usual to a famous person accused of a violent crime'. Surely you can see that pleading mental health and threats of self-harm as a way of getting the press of your case is a tactic that could be cynically manipulated by anyone who wants to avoid scrutiny? The idea that the press should back off just because a celeb plays the mental health card just doesn't fly, I'm afraid.

    And her boyfriend asking that she not be prosecuted isn't really relevant, since the CPS policy is to prosecute in cases of domestic violence regardless of what the alleged victim says. Not doing so risks abusers manipulating their victims so that they get away with it.

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