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"John Leslie: Innocent or guilty - let the Daily Mail make up your mind for you!"

I feel pretty bad about this one. I usually reserve my judgement on these sort of cases, but this time I was convinced he was guilty. I feel manipulated by the media. I feel dirty.

Although I've said that I did at the time believe he was guilty, I didn't actually say that to anyone, I'm only admitting it now, and I was never convinved of his guilt, just as I am still not 100% convinced of his innocence. I don't know the man

Practical Magic wrote:
> Wouldn't it be fairer to say you let yourself be manipulated by the
> media ? The general assumption was that the (female) person crying
> 'rape' etc was right and the other person (being a male) was guilty...

There have been other cases involving similar claims that I haven't been so ready to believe, I remembered watching a programming on the first scandle where leaslie was named a few years ago, and this probably influenced what I though. I don't think those facts have been called into question have they?

I seem to remember an awful lot of people here screaming about him, as they did with Pete Townsend.

Moral?
Think for yourself and don't just buy a newspaper (especially The Daily Mail) and assume it's correct.
Lynda-Lee Potter can suck my balls, hateful two-faced pandering witch

Generally, if you don't believe a single thing you read in the paper (or better still, don't read the paper at all), you'll be okay

Practical Magic wrote:
> Most of this country let's the papers do the thinking for them.

The Papers and the rest of the media...

what else do we have to go on exactly?

Rosalind wrote:
> I feel pretty bad about this one. I usually reserve my judgement on
> these sort of cases, but this time I was convinced he was guilty. I
> feel manipulated by the media. I feel dirty.

Wouldn't it be fairer to say you let yourself be manipulated by the media ? The general assumption was that the (female) person crying 'rape' etc was right and the other person (being a male) was guilty...

Wasn't the case here, yet a fair amount of people decided that, whilst they could join in questioning the guilt of such luminaries as Saddam Hussein, numerous suspected terrorists et al, John Leslie was obviously guilty as hell with little doubt.

To many assume that the media has a moral code to tell the truth and not bias stories, and as were increasingly seeing that is not, and never has been, the case.

If so many were wrong about this, how about other stories past and present ?

I KNEW HE WOZ INOCENT AS IT WOZ I THAT DON IT

Most of this country let's the papers do the thinking for them.

I feel pretty bad about this one. I usually reserve my judgement on these sort of cases, but this time I was convinced he was guilty. I feel manipulated by the media. I feel dirty.