BBC refused to report the death of Jay Cheshire, the victim of false rape accusations
07-31-2016, 06:20 AM
BBC refused to report on the death of Jay Cheshire,
the victim of false rape allegations
who's mother has now also taken her her own life because
she couldn’t see a future without him
http://hequal.wordpress.com/2015/10/06/b...yet-again/
BBC shows its contempt for victims of false rape allegations yet again
Recently you may well have read about the tragic case of Jay Cheshire, a vulnerable 17 year old boy from Southampton who committed suicide after being accused of rape. His accuser withdrew the allegation after two weeks, but not before Jay had been confronted by the police and had his name forever tarnished by the terrible smear. The story was first reported by the Daily Mail and The Sun, followed by the Mirror, Times, Telegraph and finally the Independent (not to mention all the local press). The story even went international.
By any standards it’s a hugely notable story, featuring not only the suicide of a school boy, but a dubious rape allegation, its withdrawal and all the various surrounding issues. The coroner’s report makes it clear that the rape allegation was the cause of the suicide and the tragic case prompted a follow up opinion piece in Monday’s Times by Libby Purves and a fascinating call-in show on London’s LBC radio station, where a mother called in to highlight how her family had been destroyed by a preposterous false rape allegation against her 12 year old son.
When it comes to the coverage of this story, it’s unsurprising to see the Guardian sticking out as pretty much the only national newspaper to ignore such a significant story. Most people know by now that this feminist newspaper has nothing but contempt for the countless victims of false rape allegations and the story clearly isn’t compatible with their agenda.
However, it’s extremely disturbing to see a supposedly neutral organisation such as the BBC side with the Guardian here, and they too decided to pretend that one of the bigger stories of the day simply didn’t exist!
The more optimistic readers of this blog may be hoping that the BBC’s sheer contempt for those such as Jay Cheshire is a one off and that they’ve otherwise stayed true to their obligation to report such issues fairly but this clearly isn’t the case and the BBC cannot be trusted to report on such a topic fairly in the slightest. Just last year the Guardian newspaper broke the story of another rape allegation suicide, this time of an alleged false rape accuser named Elanor de Freitas. This individual had accused a man of rape after he had ended their relationship. After a huge amount of effort, her alleged victim managed to build such a convincing case against her that the CPS brought charges, a hugely significant event given the authorities happily let the overwhelming majority of false accusers get away with their crimes and it’s clear that at the very least she had questions to answer.
In contrast to the Cheshire suicide, the BBC instantly lapped up the story, blatantly siding with the Guardian’s ridiculously biased narrative and practically cutting and pasting their content from the newspaper. The BBC threw all objectivity out of the window and went as far as turning reality on its head by describing this alleged false rape accuser as the victim, not in the body of an article but in its actual headlines! In response to this, HEqual submitted a number of complaints to the BBC and successfully forced the organisation to retract every single instance of the false headlines on its website (though goodness know how many people were exposed to such a biased narrative before it was taken down).
The problem with the BBC’s reporting of gender issues is that instead of being neutral as it is required to be, time after time it simply has to use the same tired narrative of women as victims and men as aggressors, regardless of the facts of the case. This complete lack of ethics and/or loss of contact with reality extends into all sorts of other areas, for example the BBC’s reports on Gamergate and tech issues or Newsnight’s enthusiastic coverage of the terrible Twitter block-bot. One of the BBC’s worst biases is reporting on the issues of domestic violence and of course I doubt anyone could forget their astonishing and quite blatant and deliberate sabotage of the Justice for Men and Boys election campaign, a scandal that now seems even worse in hindsight given the number of free adverts its’ gives for the Sandy Toksvig and her “Women’s Equality Party”.
the victim of false rape allegations
who's mother has now also taken her her own life because
she couldn’t see a future without him
http://hequal.wordpress.com/2015/10/06/b...yet-again/
BBC shows its contempt for victims of false rape allegations yet again
Recently you may well have read about the tragic case of Jay Cheshire, a vulnerable 17 year old boy from Southampton who committed suicide after being accused of rape. His accuser withdrew the allegation after two weeks, but not before Jay had been confronted by the police and had his name forever tarnished by the terrible smear. The story was first reported by the Daily Mail and The Sun, followed by the Mirror, Times, Telegraph and finally the Independent (not to mention all the local press). The story even went international.
By any standards it’s a hugely notable story, featuring not only the suicide of a school boy, but a dubious rape allegation, its withdrawal and all the various surrounding issues. The coroner’s report makes it clear that the rape allegation was the cause of the suicide and the tragic case prompted a follow up opinion piece in Monday’s Times by Libby Purves and a fascinating call-in show on London’s LBC radio station, where a mother called in to highlight how her family had been destroyed by a preposterous false rape allegation against her 12 year old son.
When it comes to the coverage of this story, it’s unsurprising to see the Guardian sticking out as pretty much the only national newspaper to ignore such a significant story. Most people know by now that this feminist newspaper has nothing but contempt for the countless victims of false rape allegations and the story clearly isn’t compatible with their agenda.
However, it’s extremely disturbing to see a supposedly neutral organisation such as the BBC side with the Guardian here, and they too decided to pretend that one of the bigger stories of the day simply didn’t exist!
The more optimistic readers of this blog may be hoping that the BBC’s sheer contempt for those such as Jay Cheshire is a one off and that they’ve otherwise stayed true to their obligation to report such issues fairly but this clearly isn’t the case and the BBC cannot be trusted to report on such a topic fairly in the slightest. Just last year the Guardian newspaper broke the story of another rape allegation suicide, this time of an alleged false rape accuser named Elanor de Freitas. This individual had accused a man of rape after he had ended their relationship. After a huge amount of effort, her alleged victim managed to build such a convincing case against her that the CPS brought charges, a hugely significant event given the authorities happily let the overwhelming majority of false accusers get away with their crimes and it’s clear that at the very least she had questions to answer.
In contrast to the Cheshire suicide, the BBC instantly lapped up the story, blatantly siding with the Guardian’s ridiculously biased narrative and practically cutting and pasting their content from the newspaper. The BBC threw all objectivity out of the window and went as far as turning reality on its head by describing this alleged false rape accuser as the victim, not in the body of an article but in its actual headlines! In response to this, HEqual submitted a number of complaints to the BBC and successfully forced the organisation to retract every single instance of the false headlines on its website (though goodness know how many people were exposed to such a biased narrative before it was taken down).
The problem with the BBC’s reporting of gender issues is that instead of being neutral as it is required to be, time after time it simply has to use the same tired narrative of women as victims and men as aggressors, regardless of the facts of the case. This complete lack of ethics and/or loss of contact with reality extends into all sorts of other areas, for example the BBC’s reports on Gamergate and tech issues or Newsnight’s enthusiastic coverage of the terrible Twitter block-bot. One of the BBC’s worst biases is reporting on the issues of domestic violence and of course I doubt anyone could forget their astonishing and quite blatant and deliberate sabotage of the Justice for Men and Boys election campaign, a scandal that now seems even worse in hindsight given the number of free adverts its’ gives for the Sandy Toksvig and her “Women’s Equality Party”.
