Caroline Flack

A lot of the people on facebook posting how horrible the treatment of her by the media was are the same people that lap up the tabloid stories whether they're positive negative or even just what outfit they're wearing...

I understand the press need to report on stuff but we as a general group allow the media to behave in such a way to feed our desire to know everything immediately...

Even in her untimely death, people are speculating, commenting like they know all about her, rushing to pour fake grief or even suggest she brought it on her self...

The poor lass has died, but still the media machine drives on...
 
We teach every day that bullying is not ok in any walk of life....yet we let certain areas of the media do this blatantly and publically every day. Yes she was charged with an offence...let that be a headline for the day...but dragging someone's name through the mud every day since is a disgrace.
 
We teach every day that bullying is not ok in any walk of life....yet we let certain areas of the media do this blatantly and publically every day. Yes she was charged with an offence...let that be a headline for the day...but dragging someone's name through the mud every day since is a disgrace.

Who “lets” them do it though? It can only be their readerships, surely? And they are big readerships.
 
I think something needs to be done regarding social media but parents are in control of that , it’s far too easy to give a kid a mobile phone to keep them quiet.
I haven’t bought a paper in yrs so atleast I don’t fund them, I don’t feel theyl ever change.

I’ve never watched love Island and it wouldn’t shock if it’s axed now , it’s the 3rd suicide from that show .

I think since the introduction of social media people are finding it easy to be nasty with no sense of remorse or responsibility, it’s hard to see it changing soon . Even when people do a good deed it has to be recorded and posted online to say look at me look what I’ve done . Why can’t people just help because it’s needed and not for likes and attention.
It’s sad to feel there will be more suicides and mental health will continue to rise .
 
I dont think its fair to blame Love Island for her death or the other suicides. It's a result of becoming a sudden celebrity, and then having that crash around you that has caused most of these and similar suicides. You go from rolling in cash and celeb culture, to getting paid £50 to do autographs at a nightclub in Bolton on a Tuesday night. It must be horrible, but it takes a certain mindset to deal with sudden celebrity status, and another mindset again to deal with losing it. However this happens in all walks of TV life. Look at how Justin Bieber and Suzanne Boyle handled mega-status, Britney spears shaving her head, Lyndsey Lohan and many more examples. They're people too, but everything gets examined.

At the same time though, in her death everything seems to be getting white washed and she may well have been guilty of a particularly violently assault - those leaked photos of the bed sheets looks like a bit more than an argument that got out of hand, but thats for the courts to decide. Her relationship with Styles was weird, but not illegal. She wasn't exactly a role model.

However the medias treatment of Ant McPartlin, and more recently Philip Schofield, strikes a sharp contrast around their respective treatment.
 
If the cps thought it was a serious enough assault to prosecute it must have been bad. Regardless of her mental state the cps were correct. Calling it a show trial was ridiculous as well are celebs immune to the judical system because of their fame. Her employers itv really should have looked after her better blaming the cps is wrong
 
Tragic.

Yet the media will never ever be held accountable.

Give it two days maximum and they’ll be back to dog piling on Meghan Markle.

The job of a tabloid journalist has and continues to be the absolute dregs of the morality scale. To be a tabloid journalist you must not have a conscience whatsoever and ignore anything but pursuing sensationalism disguised as the “pursuit of the truth”. W@nkers the lot of them.
 
"it sells papers" "we are just giving the people what they want" is the usual defence. Sadly the have a point. If no one bought their hate filled, morally bankrupt rags they wouldn't post such stories.

Sadly, the presenter of Love Island assaulting her boyfriend IS newsworthy to many people. Blame the media but also blame their consumers, and then you’re more or less just blaming everyone. But you only have to watch Love Island for 5 minutes to get a feel for what sort of demographic it’s targeted at, and these are mostly tabloid readers.

Sad state of affairs all round and terrible for the lass and her family but, short of a sociopolitical revolution, I’m not sure what can ever stop this kind of this happening.

The only conclusion I can draw is that fame really isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. But I doubt everyone else sees it like that.
 
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