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

[Pokster]

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.

[PSRB]

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.

[Pokster]

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

[IUFG]

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

Most celebs are raging narcissistic personality disordered cnuts, who absolutely love the attention when it is fanning the flames of their celebrity.

The moment the adulation turns into a bit of criticism, won't they all play the mental health card?

[Pokster]

Most celebs are raging narcissistic personality disordered cnuts, who absolutely love the attention when it is fanning the flames of their celebrity.

The moment the adulation turns into a bit of criticism, won't they all play the mental health card?

No, as we have seen previously most of them don't.

[IUFG]

No, as we have seen previously most of them don't.

ah, but with the possible introduction of #Carolineslaw ?

[IUFG]

No, as we have seen previously most of them don't.

and most don't top themselves.

[Pokster]

and most don't top themselves.

Which again suggests she had serious mental health issues and they had been there for a while

[Rich]

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

Could I ask what mental health issues she suffered with and what the protocol for her informing the IPSO is? Also, what have the press done beyond report the facts of the crime she committed and was being prosecuted for?

[Pokster]

Could I ask what mental health issues she suffered with and what the protocol for her informing the IPSO is? Also, what have the press done beyond report the facts of the crime she committed and was being prosecuted for?

Well the fact she killed herself suggests stress, anxiety and depression must feature somewhere, the fact an Ambulance was called the day before she killed herself also suggests this, the fact a friend was staying with her as her family were concerned what she might do also suggests there were mental health issues.

They didn't just report the facts they glorified them to make it a "bigger" story.