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TheWho4Life said:
Agree.... and I admit... I am a bit nosy when it comes to stuff like this... I'm sorry everybody
TheWho4Life said:
Agree.... and I admit... I am a bit nosy when it comes to stuff like this... I'm sorry everybody
Oh, I didnt take it as an attack, dont worrybeli said:Who4Life, sorry I didn't intend that as an attack on anybody just a comment.
Miroslava said:Sent this to the news desk, but am freaking out and thus had to share. This was sent on to me by someone I have been emailing with at U2.com
new.pressgazette.co.uk/?t=article&l=paper_in_legal_clash
Paper in legal clash with U2
Published: Friday, January 14, 2005
The Sunday World is due to face U2's lawyers next week to explain why it published details about a seriously ill relative of a band member.
The rock group injuncted the paper after its first edition to stop it repeating details in subsequent editions last weekend.
A court hearing next Monday will be the first time the Republic of Ireland's journalists' exemption from prosecution under the country's Data Protection Act 2003 will be challenged.
And it could even lead to the implementation of a statutory code of conduct for journalists in the Republic of Ireland.
The rock group's lawyers took action after the Dublin-based tabloid identified the relative and a condition they suffer from.
The story was not followed up in the Irish papers the following Monday after newsdesks were notified of the injunction granted against the Sunday World in the early hours of Sunday morning.
It is not known if the paper intends to contest the injunction - which effectively forbids it from again naming the relative or discussing their illness.
Despite knowing about the story, London-based titles - including The Sun , Daily Mail and News of the World - declined to publish it.
However, the Dublin-based Irish Daily Star reported aspects of the story last Friday. But they did not name the relative or the nature of their illness.
Now, if this injuction had been filed, why were they able to publish the really huge story this Sunday? And this makes it seem as if the published story is true, doesn't it??
beli said:More than anything this indicates to me that the people involved don't want this issue discussed.
peace.
Sorry to bump the thread...but this is exactly what I was thinking. I was just having a pm conversation with someone on the same topic.dsmith2904 said:But what papers are these scans taken from? If it was the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Irish Times, BBC or even Hot Press that was reporting this story and had recent pictures with it (not eight-year-old paparazzi snaps) and a statement from a named person of good standing (not "unnamed sources close to the family"), then I would really believe this. Tabloid get things wrong all the time, in the US Star was reporting that Jennifer Aniston and Brad Pitt were stronger than ever just as they were announcing their separation. I just don't think we should take it as 100 percent fact that Sian is in fact gravely ill just because these rags are reporting it.