RIP Stephen Gately

The Daily Mail does it again . . .

The sugar coating on this fatality is so saccharine-thick that it obscures whatever bitter truth lies beneath. Healthy and fit 33-year-old men do not just climb into their pyjamas and go to sleep on the sofa, never to wake up again.

Whatever the cause of death is, it is not, by any yardstick, a natural one. Let us be absolutely clear about this. All that has been established so far is that Stephen Gately was not murdered. And I think if we are going to be honest, we would have to admit that the circumstances surrounding his death are more than a little sleazy.

After a night of clubbing, Cowles and Gately took a young Bulgarian man back to their apartment. It is not disrespectful to assume that a game of canasta with 25-year-old Georgi Dochev was not what was on the cards. Cowles and Dochev went to the bedroom together while Stephen remained alone in the living room.
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As a gay rights champion, I am sure [Gately] would want to set an example to any impressionable young men who may want to emulate what they might see as his glamorous routine. For once again, under the carapace of glittering, hedonistic celebrity, the ooze of a very different and more dangerous lifestyle has seeped out for all to see.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1220756/A-strange-lonely-troubling-death--.html
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Oh, dearie, dearie me. Shocking; quite, quiet shocking.

Has the Daily Mail got no respect for the recently deceased?


The Press Complaints Commission can be found at: http://www.pcc.org.uk/
 
Shocking?

What is?

A celebrity dies on holiday when he was a healthy 33yr old, and someone says it might have been sex games?

Or they should not report this because the family want the real reason for the death covered up? (kind of understandable but naive if it was an 'unusual' death)

Or is it just the fact he is recentley deceased and the 'accident' should not be discussed?


We are back to living your life courting the press, its always going to bite you back when it turns out your the one wanting privacy.
 
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rokerij said:
We are back to living your life courting the press, its always going to bite you back when it turns out your the one wanting privacy.
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Likewise bad taste articles are biting back at the Daily Mail now after their crusades against people like Russell Brand and Jeremy Clarkson who's comments pale into insignificance compared to Jan Moir's. I always wondered when the Daily Mail would step over the line just that one bit too far, maybe it's finally happened.
 
rokerij said:
Shocking?

What is?

A celebrity dies on holiday when he was a healthy 33yr old, and someone says it might have been sex games?

Or they should not report this because the family want the real reason for the death covered up? (kind of understandable but naive if it was an 'unusual' death)

Or is it just the fact he is recentley deceased and the 'accident' should not be discussed?


We are back to living your life courting the press, its always going to bite you back when it turns out your the one wanting privacy.
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lol keep on reading the daily mail mate
 
Iv'e no defence for the Daily Mail, somebody is buying it though and this story/anti story will probably increase sales slightly............
 
stokefan, if you are a Stoke fan like me then you will know that I cannot possibly be a daily mail reader m8



Edit: tbh I cant remember the last time I bought any newspaper
 
More the fact the article is full of rubbish, ignorance and factual errors?

People die unexpectedly every day, be they gay, straight, asexual, omnisexual or celibate.
There are a lot of people out there who have potentially fatal health issues that may never be found except by accident, or until they die unexpectedly and an autopsy is performed*.

The article is suggesting the fact that he's gay had something to do with his death (and indeed it is a contributing factor in many deaths), and that the opinion of the medical practictioner is at best misguided, and potentially deliberately wrong with the coroner covering up something that was possibly criminal (a fairly serious allegation, if she were to come straight out and say it).

It's a very poor editorial that fails on grounds of taste, common decency, and factual accuracy.


*Things like heart defects, or problems with say the blood vessels in the brain that might not cause a problem until the day they give up and you keel over.
 
Im not saying that he did not have an unexpected 'natural' death, he may well have done god rest his sole.

But after living most of his life 'courting' the press & the only statement even after 33ry old dies and autopsy is 'an accident/natural causes/fluid on lung etc) you cant really blame the press (sad as they are) for digging deeper.
 
rokerij said:
Im not saying that he did not have an unexpected 'natural' death, he may well have done god rest his sole.

But after living most of his life 'courting' the press & the only statement even after 33ry old dies and autopsy is 'an accident/natural causes/fluid on lung etc) you cant really blame the press (sad as they are) for digging deeper.
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fFuid on lung is the autopsy. I just wonder what he was doing at the time, and what type of 'fluid' it could be?
 
rokerij said:
Im not saying that he did not have an unexpected 'natural' death, he may well have done god rest his sole.

But after living most of his life 'courting' the press & the only statement even after 33ry old dies and autopsy is 'an accident/natural causes/fluid on lung etc) you cant really blame the press (sad as they are) for digging deeper.
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They aren't digging deeper. They are attempting (again) to undermine civil partnerships and using his death as an excuse to attack them.
 
GinG said:
fFuid on lung is the autopsy. I just wonder what he was doing at the time, and what type of 'fluid' it could be?
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Could be anything.
I'm guessing given though, given that it's not being treated as suspicious in any way the fluid is probably something associated with a birth defect or normal illness (IIRC it can be a side effect of a heart problem for example).

Just a guess as normally if there was anything odd in the slightest about it the autopsy would result in a police investigation to find out the circumstances off the oddity.
 
frakker said:
Interesting piece by Charlie Brooker on Jan Moir's ridiculous column.
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Great article that is, and I complained to both the Daily Mail and the PCC yesterday. The PCC have done their usual "Washing their hands of it" because when you complain they send you in reply a computer generated email saying they cant proceed with any complaints unless we are directly linked to the Gately family.

Quite what the purpose of the PCC is then I dont know? Have yet to receive a reply from the Daily Mail, I hear Marks and Spencer contacted them yesterday though, and asked them to remove their advert from that womans article because they wanted nothing to do with it.

I hope she never has anything published again, unless its a full and proper apology without any excuses, which is all she has come out and done so far. Stupid stupid cow.
 
knip said:
Great article that is, and I complained to both the Daily Mail and the PCC yesterday. The PCC have done their usual "Washing their hands of it" because when you complain they send you in reply a computer generated email saying they cant proceed with any complaints unless we are directly linked to the Gately family.

Quite what the purpose of the PCC is then I dont know? Have yet to receive a reply from the Daily Mail, I hear Marks and Spencer contacted them yesterday though, and asked them to remove their advert from that womans article because they wanted nothing to do with it.

I hope she never has anything published again, unless its a full and proper apology without any excuses, which is all she has come out and done so far. Stupid stupid cow.
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Is there anything you don't complain about?
 
knip said:
... I complained to both the Daily Mail and the PCC yesterday. The PCC have done their usual "Washing their hands of it" because when you complain they send you in reply a computer generated email saying they cant proceed with any complaints unless we are directly linked to the Gately family.
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Frankly, you would be better off complaining to companies that advertise in the Daily Mail.

Everybody knows that the PCC only exists in order to "absorb" complaints directed at the press by the public - they are a complete waste of time and money.
 
JAMAL said:
Is there anything you don't complain about?
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Please explain to me what you mean by that comment? Thats the first time I have ever sent a complaint to either the Daily Mail or the PCC.
Are you saying what Jan Moir said is correct?
 
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