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Caroline Flack: James O'Brien's moving monologue about the effects of tabloids and trolls
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February 17, 2020
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8:31Now PlayingThis is James O'Brien's moving monologue about the effects of tabloids and Twitter trolls after Caroline Flack took her own life which many have attributed to haranguing from the media.
Two petitions have since been set up in her name to introduce stricter laws around press conduct and have collectively reached close to 800,000 signatures.
James reflected that when he showbiz editor on a national newspaper, he had an editor that allowed him not to indulge "in the excesses and abuses that are commonplace in the profession" which he branded as pure "luck."
Despite feeling slightly embarrassed, James admitted that if he had had an editor with a different disposition, he wouldn't have had the financial security or the moral confidence to refuse to stories he'd now be ashamed of.
James said you could probably trace modern tabloid culture back to when Rupert Murdoch bought The Sun as he "realised how much money could be made from commoditising - to be kind - fetishising - to be a little less charitable - death and tragedy."
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