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[Guy Profumo]

Apparently a woman has been convicted of drink driving after pleading guilty to the offence and has been banned for 15 months.

OK. Put it in the court reports then.

But national news?

No.

[Rogin the Armchair fan]

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Even less news that she sometimes wears a bikini on holiday. Presumably not whilst driving around Southgate in September, but phwoooar! That'll be the photo that we'll use!

[Sits]

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Please refer to Sydney's Sun Herald newspaper. Every edition is a case of "hunt the news".

Mind you, I stopped reading it some years ago.

[Janik]

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Guy Profumo wrote: Apparently a woman has been convicted of drink driving after pleading guilty to the offence and has been banned for 15 months.

OK. Put it in the court reports then.

But national news?

No.

Pah, the BBC reported a few days ago on a Woman being arrested for DUI in Oregon. Driving had nothing to do with ex-profession. That was apparently international news, not just national.

That story has rather kicked off in the last 24 hours, as well.

[Fussbudget]

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I've just been scouring the Guardian website and I still don't have the faintest idea what this thread is about.

[Guy Profumo]

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Fussbudget wrote: I've just been scouring the Guardian website and I still don't have the faintest idea what this thread is about.

That's because it was reported on the BBC website…

[Hofzinser]

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I genuinely have no idea what this thread is all about and, having checked a couple of news sites for enlightenment, am still none the wiser. This suggests that the thread title is, to at least some extent, literally true.

[Hofzinser]

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Ha! Hadn't seen Fussbudget's post before I wrote that.

[Fussbudget]

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Uh. Guy, that wasn't all that obvious from your original post, to be fair.

[Hofzinser]

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Guy Profumo wrote:

I've just been scouring the Guardian website and I still don't have the faintest idea what this thread is about.

That's because it was reported on the BBC website…

Oh, okay, I'll check there then.

Nope, still genuinely no clue.

[Gangster Octopus]

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Some female sleb who I'd never heard of got done for drinking and driving. The Beeb had a page on it in the London section. Dunno why Guy was looking there...

[Gangster Octopus]

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By the way, this, too, is news...

[Guy Profumo]

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Gangster Octopus wrote: Some female sleb who I'd never heard of got done for drinking and driving. The Beeb had a page on it in the London section. Dunno why Guy was looking there...

Was a lead story under the "Entertainment" heading on the main (news) page IIRC.

[Guy Profumo]

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Gangster Octopus wrote: By the way, this, too, is news...

Can't disagree with you there, sir!

http://www.wsc.co.uk/forum-index/28-world/1186455-won-t-somebody-please-think-of-the-children#1186455

[MsD]

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Guy Profumo wrote:

Some female sleb who I'd never heard of got done for drinking and driving. The Beeb had a page on it in the London section. Dunno why Guy was looking there...

Was a lead story under the "Entertainment" heading on the main (news) page IIRC.

What do you expect to read in the "Entertainment" section? If they thought it was "news" they wouldn't have it in that section, along with a story about a depressed Corrie star's return and Janet Jackson starting a family. It does mean that should Tulisa die or something, they will have an article to link back to.

She's interesting (at least to sociology/cultural studies etc. bods) in the way the media and public react to her.

[Guy Profumo]

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MsD wrote:

Some female sleb who I'd never heard of got done for drinking and driving. The Beeb had a page on it in the London section. Dunno why Guy was looking there...

Was a lead story under the "Entertainment" heading on the main (news) page IIRC.

What do you expect to read in the "Entertainment" section? If they thought it was "news" they wouldn't have it in that section, along with a story about a depressed Corrie star's return and Janet Jackson starting a family. It does mean that should Tulisa die or something, they will have an article to link back to.

She's interesting (at least to sociology/cultural studies etc. bods) in the way the media and public react to her.

An absence of muck-raking and using an individual's fame against them to vilify them?

The same doesn't happen on the "business" pages when board members and the like get done for this kind of thing.

(That's normally left to the "local" papers to splash this kind of thing.)

[MsD]

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I'm not going to defend the BBC's news policy, but I wouldn't have seen it had you not mentioned it.

[Bored Of Education]

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Apparently, some twat managing to slightly knock a telephone pole - which was obviously old and faulty - today and snap it in two causing a road to have to be blocked off for four hours is news down here. That is trending third on local rag the Chronic's website. They are even saying that the pole fell and blocked the road when, in fact, the top half remained upright. It was the lorry replacing the pole that blocked the road. The driver would have obviously been breathalysed but the police's two machines weren't working so they had to rely on the the fact that he didn't smell of booze at 10.30am.

The twat who entered the Rec dressing room to upbraid the ref - which is genuine national news - is only 5th.

[Sean of the Shed]

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Talking of things that are not news, the super injunction is back, which means that the sexual activities of a celebrity couple +1 is most definitely NOT NEWS.

[Snake Plissken]

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And the return of super-injunctions is definitely not connected with the return of a flame-haired senior manager to a news establishment.

[Disco Child Ballads]

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The important news from Cheltenham:
http://www.gloucestershireecho.co.uk/Entire-KFC-feast-strewn-Cheltenham-pavement/story-29068611-detail/story.html

[Crusoe]

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Disco Child Ballads wrote: The important news from Cheltenham:
http://www.gloucestershireecho.co.uk/Entire-KFC-feast-strewn-Cheltenham-pavement/story-29068611-detail/story.html

KFC in Cheltenham, bearded dragons in Harpenden...

[Ginger Yellow]

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Assuming this is the same story, the injunction has been lifted.
As far as I can tell, though, it wasn't a superinjunction, just an injunction brought by anonymous parties.

[Guy Profumo]

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Ginger Yellow wrote: Assuming this is the same story, the injunction has been lifted.
As far as I can tell, though, it wasn't a superinjunction, just an injunction brought by anonymous parties.

Does this mean we're now allowed to say formally we've got no idea who it is? (and care even less)

[Ginger Yellow]

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It kind of goes without saying. From the description in the judgment, it doesn't sound like there's any public interest in breaching their privacy. It's entirely prurience and celebrity gossip.