Several months ago, The Guardian essentially destroyed the career of actor/director Noel Clarke. This was not based on something he did, but was based on allegations made against him. For weeks, it seemed, that newspaper was slowly, methodically, eroding away any good will Clarke had and very soon he was a pariah who had lost his BAFTA and was finished in film and television. The Guardian led this destruction of his career and it was fuelled by outrage on social media.
I raged against this while it was going on because it was nothing more than another example of Mob Rule, this time led by the press rather than a mob. Noel Clarke was (and now is) innocent until proven guilty, NOT the other way around. But that isn't what our press do now - they can excuse anything Boris and his mob of self-serving wankers do - partygate, Lordships for dodgy Russians, fucking up the country so the rich get richer - while utterly attempting - and succeeding - to destroy celebrities and ordinary people. People need to wake up and realise that the Press are telling you what to think, they're not reporting on the news, they're making their own agenda to deflect normal people from scrutinising what they should be looking at.
It's happened again. The Guardian, again, is leading with the defenestration of Will Smith, suggesting in a very long piece in the paper, that was quickly taken down, that Smith's career should be finished - not asking a question, but making a definitive statement.
It doesn't matter what side of the should he/shouldn't he fence you sit on regarding Will Smith's mildly violent defence of his wife from public humiliation masquerading as a joke, it isn't for the court of public opinion to decide and that should not be persuaded by newspapers that have absolutely no moral compass of their own.
Personally, this reminds me of when Tiger Woods had an affair and Nike and the US media pressganged him into making a public apology. I was apoplectic at Woods - one of my sporting heroes - because in my never humble opinion, where he puts his penis is between him, his wife and whoever he was fucking and had nothing to do with anyone else. I so wanted him, at his press conference, to say, 'You know what, if Nike want to withdraw my sponsorship they can go fuck themselves, I don't need their money. What I do with my dick is my business and no one else's; so why don't all you worthless jism stains of journalists go fuck off and put your own houses in order before you get on some imaginary high horse and demand apologies from people who owe you fuck all!'
But he didn't and now Will Smith has publicly apologised to the arsehole who made a cruel joke about Smith's wife's alopecia. If it had been me I would have looked at my bank balance, realised that I didn't need to work again and told them all to go fuck themselves and if they didn't they'd get slapped as well. As for Chris Rock, a man so painfully unfunny, he should reciprocate by apologising for making a joke about something ALL women dread the idea of; something both mentally and physically draining that arsehole male pigs have no understanding of.
In fact, people need to start ignoring the British press, because the British press does not have the average man's interests at heart. They want to stir up malcontent, cause divisions and influence public opinion because they think it sells newspapers and, maybe in some perverse way, they think they're doing some good. As someone who once called himself a journalist, the press are worthless cunts who deserve as much respect as bird shit and the sooner people realised this and stop pandering to them, the better. However, a lot of this is driven by righteous people on platforms like Twitter and Instagram; we can't escape the influence social media now has on the actual media, but maybe it's time we started scrutinising the scrutineers? Maybe it's time to stop bowing to dangerous individuals on social media who will destroy lives without recourse, because they - an individual - thinks a life should be destroyed, or they don't agree with how public opinion or, more importantly, the law disagrees with them.
We need to start thinking for ourselves, because people who don't think for themselves are sheep, mindless worthless sheep with no redeeming qualities.
