I wonder who this is...................

[Ymx]

“Thick as shit” “moron” “tired 3-4 year old” “precious wankers” “racist”

It’s been informative, thanks all.

BBC is right of centre, and we should ignore polls on the topic, and ignore that the right definitely does not identify with it and mostly despises the BBC. There are no left publications.

Got it.

[Uncle fester]

The BBC who suspended a presenter for espousing left wing views on twatter are left wing?

We're through the looking glass people.

[Uncle fester]

And you're equating the openly racist daily mail with the guardian. Of course folks are going to question your motives/intellectual rigour.

[I like neeps]

Then surely the bbc would be considered right wing to the populace, but it’s not.

Perhaps you guys are, dare I say it, quite left wing.

I am unashamedly a classical anarcho socialist Trot but I know how to draw political lines
The Beeb is by very definition a tool of the Establishment it's not left wing or left leaning it is at best a Liberal metropolitan bellwether.
To class it as left wing is ridiculous.
Do you think Kussenberg or any presenters of flag ship programmes like QT are left wing?

One of the reasons the BBC is perceived to be left of centre by morons like YMX is that some of its output can be quite left-leaning, or can be seen as espousing left wing or progressive views, especially its drama, natural history and science departments. But as you and others have said, its political and current affairs coverage is very clearly right of centre. Its just not right wing enough for the more extreme Tories who now gravitate towards GB News.

The BBC's senior management is also dominated by Tories. Quite how anyone can think that the BBC is left wing when most of its senior journalists are conservative, its DG was a Tory party councillor, and its former Chairman was Rishi Sunak's previous boss and a personal friend of Johnson's who privately arranged for payments to be made to Johnson. Its Board of Governors is also stuffed full of Tories.

The Tory party like to complaint loudly about the BBC because that's what keeps it compliant.

I think it's seen as left wing because it's in the interests of the Mail, Sun, Telegraph, and The Times to relentlessly attack the BBC as woke left peadophile enablers as the BBC is a competitive threat to their business. And it's in the Tories interests to have the right wing campaign group we generously call the media with more and more readers.

[sockwithaticket]

“Thick as shit” “moron” “tired 3-4 year old” “precious wankers” “racist”

It’s been informative, thanks all.

BBC is right of centre, and we should ignore polls on the topic, and ignore that the right definitely does not identify with it and mostly despises the BBC. There are no left publications.

Got it.

That the right don't perceive the BBC as being on their side despite its senior appointments being Tory allies speaks to exactly what I've said about the Telegraph and Mail being well and truly off the deep end. Chuck in Murdoch's decades long process of indoctrinating them to hate it simply for existing for good measure.

[Tichtheid]

If anyone is seriously interested in the motivation behind policital coverage in the UK I'd urge them to watch the video I posted a few days ago, the conversation between John Stewart and Ian Hislop, and take into account that they are both satirists of course. (if you can't be arsed going back a few pages then google the names)

The following article is pretty much how I see the BBC, it used to be left leaning, but not anymore, this article doesn't talk about certain appointments that have been made at the BBC, from the top executive level to the head of news on Radio 4 etc, but that can be looked for as well,

if the interest in how the BBC presents its news is genuine, then this is a worthwhile read

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... partiality


ymx, you playing the victim card is bollocks, it looks to me like you've constructed the tone of this "debate" in order to get the reactions you wanted.

and by the way, if you post racist shite branding people you know absolutely nothing about as them being "predatory" then don't whine when you get pulled up on it.

[Tichtheid]

“Thick as shit” “moron” “tired 3-4 year old” “precious wankers” “racist”

It’s been informative, thanks all.

BBC is right of centre, and we should ignore polls on the topic, and ignore that the right definitely does not identify with it and mostly despises the BBC. There are no left publications.

Got it.

That the right don't perceive the BBC as being on their side despite its senior appointments being Tory allies speaks to exactly what I've said about the Telegraph and Mail being well and truly off the deep end. Chuck in Murdoch's decades long process of indoctrinating them to hate it simply for existing for good measure.

One of Murdoch's sons gave a speech at the Edinburgh Festival of Television (or whatever its name is) a dozen years or more ago, he was linked by work with David Cameron, if I remember correctly.
In the speech he attacked the BBC, and they haven't let up one iota.

In fact, now that I've looked, I found an article on the speech


https://www.theguardian.com/media/2009/ ... v-festival

[Ymx]

More on Wootton from the Byline times.

‘Martin Branning’ – His First Victim

In the third part of a three-year special investigation, Byline Times details the trauma of a man controlled for 10 years by Martin Branning – the pseudonym of TV presenter Dan Wootton

Tom Latchem and Dan Evans
24 July 2023

Editor’s Note: Readers may find some of the graphic content of this article distressing

‘Martin Branning’ blackmailed the partner of a Murdoch journalist into making a covert sex video later found hidden behind the washing machine of GB News star Dan Wootton, Byline Times can reveal.

Branning – unmasked last week by this newspaper as an online alias used by Wootton – threatened to send sexual material compromising the partner to their family, employers and Facebook friends if they did not cooperate.

The resulting film was later discovered on a black hard-drive in a padlocked holdall in Wootton’s east London home by his former boyfriend Alex Truby – whose tweets on 12 July about the discovery have now been viewed around 17 million times.

Wootton has since used his prime-time nightly GB News show to attack Mr Truby’s account as an “untrue story”, claiming to be a “target of a smear campaign by nefarious players” and denying “criminal” behaviour – but not to being, or being connected to, ‘Branning’.

Today, however, in the third part of a three-year special investigation into Wootton’s private and professional conduct, the victim forced to make the video reveals how ‘Branning’ drove him to the brink of suicide with a 10-year campaign of anonymous coercion.

The partner, a man whose identity Byline Times is protecting – but who says that he will give evidence to the Metropolitan Police – said: “The fall-out from this went on for years. I literally quit my London life; I lost everything. I went into the depths of depression.

“I definitely considered suicide. I didn’t want to be around any more. I blamed myself for the whole situation. I am only coming to terms with it now. Now I want to get it sorted out.”

EXCLUSIVE
GB News Star Dan Wootton Unmasked in Cash-for-Sexual Images Catfishing Scandal

In the first part of its three-year special investigation, Byline Times reveals the accounts of victims targeted by the powerful TV presenter

Dan Evans and Tom Latchem
‘The Courier Would Come with a Video Camera’
The victim revealed how Branning started sending him emails – some of which this newspaper is publishing for the first time today – shortly after the man, through his partner, met Wootton at a London members’ club in 2008 and continued until 2018.

The Branning emails claimed to be from a go-between on behalf of an unnamed but interested third party offering the man, whom Wootton knew at the time was in financial trouble, up to £5,000 a week for “modeling and other work”.

In an email on 26 June 2008, Branning wrote: “I had your email and a couple of pics of you passed along to me because I heard you might be interested in making some extra cash through the sort of modeling and other work I’ve got on offer. Don’t know if the person mentioned it to you but I’d be really keen to chat with you further. All completely confidential of course.”

Quizzed by the man, who asked Branning who had shared his details, Branning followed on 27 June by writing: “Well look it’s someone who knows you through [the members’ club] but I always promise never to pass on those details because this person has worked for me in the past.
“Basically, he said you were an open-minded guy who is always looking for ways to make more £, which sounded perfect to me! I do a whole range of modelling and that sort of work which I’d like to see if you might be up for.”



The “work” turned out to be the creation of adult films made consensually between the man and a stream of individuals whose physical ‘type’ Branning would dictate – with the man then locating corresponding candidates on the same-sex dating apps Gaydar and Grindr.

Once located, Branning sent handheld digital cameras to the man by motorbike courier, which were then collected in the same way once the films were made, and followed, often some weeks later, by a delivery of cash. Wootton was then TV editor at the now-defunct News of the World.
“At that time, I needed money,” the victim said. “It was an attractive offer.
“The courier would come with a video camera he would supply. I would make footage with it and send it back with a courier [arranged by Branning]. There’d never be money until weeks later. I would be thinking he had stitched me up.

“Ultimately, money would be delivered by courier – sweaty wads of twenties, basically.”

Before setting the target to work, Branning gave him a list of highly personal questions – making invasive enquiries about his sexuality and finances along with a menu of photographic requirements.

“I know it sounds full-on but, as I say, it’s completely standard,” wrote Branning on 7 July 2008, before making directions for a series of graphic poses, along with the question: “Have you ever slept with a celebrity?” – to which the victim said no.

Dan Wootton Reveals ‘Regrets’ and Claims ‘Dark Forces’ Attacking GB News in Response to Byline Times’ Three-Year Investigation

The TV presenter did not address this newspaper’s detailed allegations of him using a fake persona to target men online

Dan Evans and Tom Latchem

‘There Are Consequences’

In his journalistic career, Dan Wootton has revealed a number of men as gay or bisexual – including Duncan James from the band Blue and a star of the BBC reality show The Apprentice.

In November 2014, The Sun’s ‘Bizarre’ column – which Wootton edited at the time – even launched a so-called ‘Bi Bus’ testing his “theory” that “most of us are at least a little bit bisexual [particularly] in the world of celebrity”.

In a further email on 29 July 2008, Branning gave the man instructions on how to persuade targets to agree to be filmed. Branning wrote: “You make it a really horny idea with whoever you’re seeing. All you need to say is ‘I’d love you to film me as you f**k me’. It works with all guys. trust me! Anyway, just keep me informed with your progress.”

Giving his account of events to Byline Times, the man said: “I wish I had never responded to the [first] email, but I did. Nowadays, people do OnlyFans [a ‘direct-access’ subscription pornography site] and I think it was the same kind of thing back in those days.

“It all seemed quite innocent and I thought ‘I’m not hurting anybody’. Then it escalated. It got heavier once I did give some content over. The guys I was meeting were up for being filmed on camera. It was consenting.”

Branning’s pretext for applying pressure to the victim was to say that he was working on behalf of a demanding third party who seemingly had intimate knowledge of the victim’s partner and their movements as a couple.

#MEDIATOO CROWDFUNDER

Help Us to Keep Exposing Wrongdoing in the National Media

We are Tom Latchem and Dan Evans, the journalists who broke the Dan Wootton scandal here on Byline Times. The result of a three-year investigation, this story about the toxic culture of the national media is just the tip of the iceberg.

To expose the actions of litigious people with big pockets, we are crowdfunding to cover our costs… and to make sure we can carry on giving complainants a voice.
If you believe this is a story worth following, please do contribute whatever you can.

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In fact, the victim had been introduced to Wootton by the victim’s partner in the early stages of their relationship, and the partner also worked for News UK.

The victim said: “I always felt that Dan Wootton had a strange obsession with my ex – 100%, and it was weird. And I was always saying [to my ex-partner] ‘that guy’s massively in love with you and is obsessed with you’. And when I came in [to the relationship], you could tell that there was this jealous aspect [from Wootton]. It was so obvious.”

Branning’s knowledge of details about the victim’s private life soon unnerved him.

“It was odd… say I was going on a holiday with [my partner], then messages would get more intense and requests would get more and more common,” he told Byline Times. “It just ramped up. And I was like ‘well, God, this guy knows too much about me’.

“That was the scary thing. And it was just frightening really… I couldn’t get away. Anywhere I was I felt that I was under scrutiny in some way, shape, or form. And you lose trust with a lot of people that you know because you start thinking ‘well, it’s got to be somebody feeding information to who I thought was a genuine person’. I had no idea.”

Things started to come to a head when Branning told the victim to make a film with his partner, who, when asked, said he did not want to make one consensually. The victim said: “It started with ‘do you know this guy?’ I told him I was not going to do this. But the pressure was mounting.”

He went on: “I said it’s not gonna happen; he’s not interested; it will be difficult to obtain [what you want]. But then ‘just take some discreet pictures if you can’.”

When he refused, Branning became ruthless.

The man said: “Branning said ‘if you don’t get this footage, then there are consequences and you don’t want your employer to find out or your friends and family to know what you’ve been doing’.”

He continued: “No one wants their mum and dad to see you f*****g someone. And that’s what it was – ‘well if you don’t, your family and your friends and your colleagues and your employers are gonna see what you’ve been doing’. You know, that was the heaviest part of it. I did try to just ignore that and tell him to f**k off basically, but then it just got more intense.”

‘You Really Don’t Know the Damage Caused’
After Branning threatened the partner, offered them money, and – crucially – the promise to make it the final demand of them, he reluctantly agreed to secretly make the video, which Alex Truby would later find, before confronting Wootton, who Mr Truby said made a tearful confession to being Branning.

The man said: “It was a barrage of pressure to get this or otherwise ‘your cover will be blown’. In the end, I was like ‘f**k it I will just do it.’”

Asked if he was blackmailed into it, the then ex-partner said: “Yes.”

He added: “The guilt and the shame of actually doing what I’ve done to somebody that I was in a relationship with, that’s the thing that to this day makes me feel sick, because there’s consequences to that… I still can’t forgive myself for doing that to somebody else.”

The strain it put on the relationship began to take a toll, and it foundered and failed after Branning made good on his threat to expose the victim’s “work for him”, by sending an edit of “the worst bits” to his partner.

He said: “It was well edited. It was just a montage of me and things that I’d sent out. that this guy knows how to get a hold of people that are very, very, close to me.”

In an email sent to Branning on 30 May 2011, the victim said: “A video of me was sent to my partner with footage of every person I’d been with and sent to you. You promised me that wouldn’t happen. You really don’t know the damage caused.”

To which Branning replied: “Must’ve been the other guy cos he was getting really annoyed you couldn’t get any footage with the [partner], who think he knows.”

What followed was a campaign apparently designed to chase the ex out of town and ensure his future silence.
He said: “And then it was harassment. It was horrendous. I left London to get away from it all. I changed my phone number, blocked all of these Martin Branning email addresses that would come in – but he still managed to get hold of me up until 2018 when it all stopped.”

No Denial of Link to ‘Branning’

The victim only became aware of the connection between Branning and Dan Wootton after Byline Times unmasked him as a serial catfish who has used various online identities to trick and bribe scores of men into revealing compromising sexual material.

This newspaper revealed how the 40-year-old broadcaster and self-styled voice against ‘woke’ culture – whose show Dan Wootton Tonight is the biggest ratings winner on the UK’s fourth-most watched news channel – targeted journalistic colleagues, friends and members of the public for at least 10 years, offering sums of up to £30,000 “tax free” to his targets, many of whom were heterosexual men.

While this newspaper has repeatedly asked representatives for Wootton to confirm or deny whether the presenter was, or is connected to, Branning, it has not received a response. Wootton has said he denies any allegations of criminality.

The man said he “never clapped eyes” on Dan Wootton again since their first meeting, until “I saw him once [at another members’ club] and he was like ‘hi how are you’ and I just told him to ‘f**k off basically. I had no idea – I just didn’t like him as a person… I had no idea he was the person who was posing as Branning”.

Last week, in response to Byline Times’ investigation on his GB News show, the presenter railed against supposed “dark forces” seeking to “cancel” him with a “smear campaign”.

Of Alex Truby, he said: “He has created an untrue story about me, and appears to be working with an organisation who are intent on closing down this channel.”

But he then added: “I, like all fallible human beings, have made errors of judgement in the past. But the criminal allegations being made against me are simply untrue.”
Declining to take the opportunity to deny being, or being connected to, Branning, he continued: “I mean, who doesn’t have regrets? Should I be cancelled for them many years later? Or do you accept that I have learned and changed?”

A spokesman for News UK – which, following Byline Times’ stories, last week launched an investigation appointing external counsel to oversee it in moves not seen since the phone-hacking scandal of 2011 – said: “We are looking into the allegations made in recent days. We are not able to make any further comment at this stage.”

The allegations in this article have been put to representatives of Dan Wootton and this newspaper has not received a response. But Byline Times will update this article if it does.

Dan Evans and Tom Latchem are former colleagues of Dan Wootton’s from the News of the World. None of the sources in this investigation were paid for their testimony

[Thor Sedan]

Seeing Dan Wootton go down in flames would be pure karma. Smarmy little git.

[Biffer]

Looks like he’s crowd funding his legals

https://democracythree.org/stop-dan-woo ... ine-smears

Never heard of the byline times before. What’s the verdict on them? Where are they on the spectrum?
Fascist =Daily Mail
Far right = Telegraph
Right = Times
Right of centre = BBC
Centre = Independent
Left of Centre = Guardian

And where on the sleaze scale?

Fixed.

We have no such thing as a full blown left newspaper and most of the right leaning ones have gone further and further right to match the Tory party and what the paymasters want. Given how right they started off, that's not a good thing.

Also never heard of the byline times, but they are left of centre according to: https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/byline-times/

Is that a joke or actually how you see it? That is a very distorted view.

The BBC don’t even try to hide their hatred of the government. There are very few conservatives who believe the BBC covers their view.

Telegraph are far right?? Come on, they are quintessentially down the middle conservative.

Your left/right border threshold lappears to be Jeremy Corbyn. You must think 95% of the country is right wing.

The irony of you saying someone else has a very distorted view.

[SaintK]

Seeing Dan Wootton go down in flames would be pure karma. Smarmy little git.

Having tried to destroy the lives and careers of many others over the years whilst working at the NoW and Sun. Let's hope he is well and truly shafted by his own petard, the weapons grade cunt!!!

[Simian]

“Thick as shit” “moron” “tired 3-4 year old” “precious wankers” “racist”

It’s been informative, thanks all.

BBC is right of centre, and we should ignore polls on the topic, and ignore that the right definitely does not identify with it and mostly despises the BBC. There are no left publications.

Got it.

Studies of bias in BBC news coverage show the BBC tends to be balanced under labour governments and shows a right bias under conservative governments.

The most recent polls found 80% of respondents disagreed with the statement that BBC shows a left wing bias.

[Simian]

Seeing Dan Wootton go down in flames would be pure karma. Smarmy little git.

Having tried to destroy the lives and careers of many others over the years whilst working at the NoW and Sun. Let's hope he is well and truly shafted by his own petard, the weapons grade cunt!!!

Yup! He’s hopefully going to finally get his comeuppance

[Ymx]

Despite my political angle I find him to be disingenuous. I don’t quite get why he suggests no spin, no bias. And then goes on about being anti-woke. It seemed a bit of a contradiction.

[Ymx]

“Thick as shit” “moron” “tired 3-4 year old” “precious wankers” “racist”

It’s been informative, thanks all.

BBC is right of centre, and we should ignore polls on the topic, and ignore that the right definitely does not identify with it and mostly despises the BBC. There are no left publications.

Got it.

Studies of bias in BBC news coverage show the BBC tends to be balanced under labour governments and shows a right bias under conservative governments.

The most recent polls found 80% of respondents disagreed with the statement that BBC shows a left wing bias.

Interesting, it is certainly not how I see it or how the yougov polls it.

Or is this statistical trickery in that it includes don’t know and neutral.

So that with the same results, also 85% of the population disagreed with the statement that BBC shows a right wing bias.

[Thor Sedan]

Despite my political angle I find him to be disingenuous. I don’t quite get why he suggests no spin, no bias. And then goes on about being anti-woke. It seemed a bit of a contradiction.

Who?

[Simian]

“Thick as shit” “moron” “tired 3-4 year old” “precious wankers” “racist”

It’s been informative, thanks all.

BBC is right of centre, and we should ignore polls on the topic, and ignore that the right definitely does not identify with it and mostly despises the BBC. There are no left publications.

Got it.

Studies of bias in BBC news coverage show the BBC tends to be balanced under labour governments and shows a right bias under conservative governments.

The most recent polls found 80% of respondents disagreed with the statement that BBC shows a left wing bias.

Interesting, it is certainly not how I see it or how the yougov polls it.

Or is this statistical trickery in that it includes don’t know and neutral.

So that with the same results, also 85% of the population disagreed with the statement that BBC shows a right wing bias.

The most recent YG poll found 20% think BBC shows left bias and 25% think it shows right bias. Neither is consistent with your claim that polls show everyone thinks it is left leaning. Which is my point.

You’d really benefit from reading the war against the BBC. It very clearly outlines why the view the BBC is biased in favour of the left is a complete fiction concocted by the right wing press and conservatives. It seems to be a fiction you’ve heavily bought into.

[Ymx]

Despite my political angle I find him to be disingenuous. I don’t quite get why he suggests no spin, no bias. And then goes on about being anti-woke. It seemed a bit of a contradiction.

Who?

Wootton

[Ymx]

Well, this was the source, but the data has changed. Thought I must have had a filter on by accident by can’t reproduce the original now. But I think the data has changed?



Like I was saying, the population tends to see the BBC as slight right of centre.

Though in general its very centre, although those on the right see it as left, and those on the left see it as right.

[Thor Sedan]

Despite my political angle I find him to be disingenuous. I don’t quite get why he suggests no spin, no bias. And then goes on about being anti-woke. It seemed a bit of a contradiction.

Who?

Wootton

Oh sorry - of course. His whole reporting style is bias to the extreme. He liteerally just takes pier morgans talking points and expands on them.

He is one of the worst things to come out of NZ ever.

[Ymx]

Who?

Wootton

Oh sorry - of course. His whole reporting style is bias to the extreme. He liteerally just takes pier morgans talking points and expands on them.

He is one of the worst things to come out of NZ ever.

Aside from me, according to those above

[Sandstorm]

Aside from me, according to those above

We just assume you were born in Australia.

[Ymx]

Aside from me, according to those above

We just assume you were born in Australia.

Reported.

I’ve been called a lot of things. But this is just too far !!

[Mahoney]

He is one of the worst things to come out of NZ ever.

Let's not go overboard. It's a crowded field.

[Thor Sedan]

He is one of the worst things to come out of NZ ever.

Let's not go overboard. It's a crowded field.

Name 10

[Slick]

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/c ... 72522.html

Spacey stitched up. Have to say when I heard the evidence I was scratching my head as to how the CPS brought it to trial. The language from some of the accusers stank of bullshit as well 'He struck at my crotch like a COBRA'. yeah sure he did.

I know one of the accusers, who decided not to go to court, very well. He has a pair of Spacey's trousers at home which he accidently picked up as he ran away after waking up....

[JM2K6]

A reminder that Spacey was accused by Kevin Rapp of sexually assaulting him when he was 14, and Spacey's response was some sort of weird semi-apology. So yeah, you go right ahead and downplay that as being a bit handsy, Everready, that seems on-brand.

https://www.thecut.com/article/all-of-t ... pacey.html

[SaintK]

A reminder that Spacey was accused by Kevin Rapp of sexually assaulting him when he was 14, and Spacey's response was some sort of weird semi-apology. So yeah, you go right ahead and downplay that as being a bit handsy, Everready, that seems on-brand.

https://www.thecut.com/article/all-of-t ... pacey.html

Not guilty m'lud!

Kevin Spacey wept and said he was humbled after being cleared of sexual assault in one of the UK’s most high-profile #MeToo trials.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-66291461

[Sandstorm]

Phew! I can watch American Beauty again and only feel guilty about the hot teenage girl.

[sturginho]

A reminder that Spacey was accused by Kevin Rapp of sexually assaulting him when he was 14, and Spacey's response was some sort of weird semi-apology. So yeah, you go right ahead and downplay that as being a bit handsy, Everready, that seems on-brand.

https://www.thecut.com/article/all-of-t ... pacey.html

*Anthony Rapp

[JM2K6]

A reminder that Spacey was accused by Kevin Rapp of sexually assaulting him when he was 14, and Spacey's response was some sort of weird semi-apology. So yeah, you go right ahead and downplay that as being a bit handsy, Everready, that seems on-brand.

https://www.thecut.com/article/all-of-t ... pacey.html

*Anthony Rapp

Doh, yes. And it's not like I don't know who he is!

[JM2K6]

Ha. You didn't bother your arse reading it either did you

Not everyone is as thrilled as you to be willfully ignorant. But hey, keep defending and joking about the guy accused by large numbers of people in multiple counties of sex crimes, including several against children. That's a great look.

[Ymx]

From reading the above, I had thought he was guilty of stuff. Or had paid to settle, but it went to court …

Anthony Rapp has responded after his lawsuit against Kevin Spacey was dismissed.

Rapp, who is known for his performances in Star Trek: Discovery and in the original Broadway production of Rent, had sought $40m (£36m) in damages after alleging that a then-26-year-old Spacey made an “unwanted sexual advance” towards him when he was 14, during a party at Spacey’s Manhattan apartment in 1986.

Spacey has “categorically” denied the accusation.

On Thursday (20 October), the three-week trial came to an end after a New York jury concluded that Spacey did not molest Rapp.

According to reports from US media, the jury deliberated for 90 minutes before coming to a unanimous decision.

After the verdict was announced, Rapp shared a statement on social media. Despite the court not ruling in his favour, Rapp explained that he found some satisfaction in being part of a movement against sexual violence.

“I am deeply grateful for the opportunity to have my case heard before a jury, and I thank the members of the jury for their service,” his statement began.

“Bringing this lawsuit was always about shining a light, as part of the larger movement to stand up against all forms of sexual violence.”

Towards the end of his statement, Rapp expressed hope that acknowledgement of sexual violence would continue and that those who have experienced it will speak up about it.

“I pledge to keep on advocating for efforts to ensure that we can live and work in a world that is free from sexual violence of any kind,” he continued.

“I sincerely hope that survivors continue to tell their stories and fight for accountability.”

Rapp first made claims against the former House of Cards star in 2017, after the rise of the #MeToo movement saw several people speak out against sexual harassment in the entertainment industry.

[Ymx]

Rapp first voices allegations against Spacey in a 2017 BuzzFeed article, stating that Spacey lifted him up, placed him on his bed and pinned him down in a sexually aggressive manner.

Was this the charge? I thought from reading above it was rape.

[Insane_Homer]

https://bylinetimes.com/2023/08/03/dan- ... the-proof/

Dan Wootton twice used an identical password as the catfishing pseudonyms ‘Martin Branning’ and ‘Maria Joseph’ to subscribe to a movie-sharing website, Byline Times can reveal.

The presenter used the password along with the email addresses for his private web domain danwootton.com and also his official News of the World account. They were leaked and published on a publicly-available data breach directory in October 2018.

Alongside Wootton’s two email addresses revealed in a dump of log-in details for 743,280 users of the defunct film-indexing service ‘MyDVD.overhere.com’ were the email addresses Byline Times revealed ‘Branning’ and ‘Joseph’ had used to trick and bribe scores of men into sharing compromising sexual material over at least a 10-year period.

All four of the accounts used the same unusual eight-character password. To protect Wootton’s privacy, this newspaper is not publishing the password – which his new representatives today appeared to confirm was indeed used by the journalist.

Further analysis of the databases, which are openly available online, shows Wootton also used the same password for his LinkedIn and MySpace profiles alongside music and fitness-app sites between October 2016 and October 2018.

His MailOnline activities has been 'paused' - https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-66401554

[SaintK]

https://bylinetimes.com/2023/08/03/dan- ... the-proof/

Dan Wootton twice used an identical password as the catfishing pseudonyms ‘Martin Branning’ and ‘Maria Joseph’ to subscribe to a movie-sharing website, Byline Times can reveal.

The presenter used the password along with the email addresses for his private web domain danwootton.com and also his official News of the World account. They were leaked and published on a publicly-available data breach directory in October 2018.

Alongside Wootton’s two email addresses revealed in a dump of log-in details for 743,280 users of the defunct film-indexing service ‘MyDVD.overhere.com’ were the email addresses Byline Times revealed ‘Branning’ and ‘Joseph’ had used to trick and bribe scores of men into sharing compromising sexual material over at least a 10-year period.

All four of the accounts used the same unusual eight-character password. To protect Wootton’s privacy, this newspaper is not publishing the password – which his new representatives today appeared to confirm was indeed used by the journalist.

Further analysis of the databases, which are openly available online, shows Wootton also used the same password for his LinkedIn and MySpace profiles alongside music and fitness-app sites between October 2016 and October 2018.

His MailOnline activities has been 'paused' - https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-66401554

Is the lying piece of shit still protesting his innocence on his radio show?

[SaintK]

Hopefully the cunt will start to get his come uppance!!!

Dan Wootton has been suspended from GB News following comments made on his show by Laurence Fox, who asked what "self-respecting man" would "climb into bed" with female reporter Ava Evans.
The broadcaster had earlier suspended Fox for his comments during a live show about PoliticsJOE's Evans.
Evans said the comments made her feel "sick" and worried for her safety.
Wootton had apologised for the remarks, saying he "regretted" the interview.

A bit like he regretted catfishing for dickpics and porn from his work colleagues no doubt!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-66940513

[sockwithaticket]

Completely on brand for GB News and the way they're trying to weasel out of it is a disgrace.

Ava confirmed in a video for JOE today that the producers were aware of what Fox was going to say and OK'd it, that a number of female producers have left GB News because of prevailing attitudes there. One of her colleagues brought up that just recently someone has been convicted of making credible threats against her and her family, going on to add that the likes of Fox going on vitriolic rants against her increases the likelihood of more of the same.

They didn't add, but hardly needed to, that that's because GB News' audience, such as it is, largely comprises culture war nuts with tenuous links to reality and the channel's whole raison d'aitre is to titilate and enrage those types of people.

Worth noting that MP John Nicholson has been trying to get Ofcom to do something about GB News just being a propaganda arm rather than legitimate news channel for a little while, particularly taking issue with the gifting of programs to Tory MPs in apparently flagrant breach of existing regs.

[SaintK]

MailOnline get shot of him. Only a matter of time before GB News do the same I'd have thought?

Dan Wootton has been sacked by MailOnline the day after he was suspended by GB News for his part in an on-air discussion with actor Laurence Fox about a female journalist.
The TV anchor has been suspended from his lucrative MailOnline column since the summer over accusations he used the pseudonym “Martin Branning” to send sexually explicit messages to former colleagues. GB News declined to investigate these claims of inappropriate sexual behaviour against one of their star presenters, arguing they were alleged to have happened at a former employer.

https://www.theguardian.com/media/20 ... ily-mail

[Tichtheid]

She's quite good looking so what's the shtick about not sleeping with her?

Misogynist bullshit as per - every man thinks every woman would be gagging for it, from them ... "every man" being people like Fox in this case.