Mosley 'knows' who set him up

I do understand what you are saying, and maybe I was trying to make my point crudely, but I don't understand why Max would say he "knows" who set him up, but he has no concrete proof and won't have for a couple of years or so. So why say something now? Why drag it all up again so he can metaphorically wag his finger in this person's face?

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Originally Posted by NoahsGirl

I do understand what you are saying, and maybe I was trying to make my point crudely, but I don't understand why Max would say he "knows" who set him up, but he has no concrete proof and won't have for a couple of years or so. So why say something now? Why drag it all up again so he can metaphorically wag his finger in this person's face?

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I think the truth is that he doesn't really care about the wider issue, being more concerned with his own situation, and that we will never find out who he thinks set him up. Why say something now? I don't know. Maybe the whole thing has made him a bit doolally. Maybe he is still genuinely angry.

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Originally Posted by BDunnell

I think the truth is that he doesn't really care about the wider issue, being more concerned with his own situation, and that we will never find out who he thinks set him up. Why say something now? I don't know. Maybe the whole thing has made him a bit doolally. Maybe he is still genuinely angry.

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I too would be angry if my private life was splashed all over the papers and was made a figure of fun but he was warned about this a couple of months before the sting, so he has brought it all on himself.

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Originally Posted by NoahsGirl

I too would be angry if my private life was splashed all over the papers and was made a figure of fun but he was warned about this a couple of months before the sting, so he has brought it all on himself.

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Again, I totally see what you're getting at, but would you think that a famous person who wished to keep their homosexuality private but proved unable to because of press intrusion — of which they too had been forewarned — would have brought it all on themselves?

But he has brought it on himself BD. I had totally forgotten all about the incident and was looking forward to watching F1 racing in 2009. Now that Mr Mosely has said what he has said, he has brought it all up again in an attempt to dilute his press over the incident.

I truly hope i am being clear and concise, I am just incredulous at this "not my fault i was in the press" article.

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Originally Posted by driveace

Ioan ,the British DO NOT think that the rest of the world is on their Island,BUT most of the F1 teams are based here, as is the subject that the thread is about.

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You might have plenty of F1 teams, also the ones that got the biggest fines in the automotive history, as well as most bankrupt automotive manufacturers in the history and so on, but the greatest F1 team isn't there and never will be. :p :

Also the FIA and all it's national clubs aren't located there. :D

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Originally Posted by ioan

You might have plenty of F1 teams, also the ones that got the biggest fines in the automotive history, as well as most bankrupt automotive manufacturers in the history and so on, but the greatest F1 team isn't there and never will be. :p :

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A votre avis...

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Originally Posted by NoahsGirl

But he has brought it on himself BD. I had totally forgotten all about the incident and was looking forward to watching F1 racing in 2009. Now that Mr Mosely has said what he has said, he has brought it all up again in an attempt to dilute his press over the incident.

I truly hope i am being clear and concise, I am just incredulous at this "not my fault i was in the press" article.

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Of course he brought it upon himself in one sense, but the same could be said of virtually anyone exposed in the newspapers, no matter whether the story was legitimate.

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Originally Posted by BDunnell

Again, I totally see what you're getting at, but would you think that a famous person who wished to keep their homosexuality private but proved unable to because of press intrusion — of which they too had been forewarned — would have brought it all on themselves?

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Its a balancing act isn't it? If the homosexual you refer to happens to lead a right wing party that rails against gays then isn't it in the public interest?

If Mosley's proposals for press and privacy reforms are pushed through the balance would shift too far against a free press I'm afraid.

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Originally Posted by Dylan H

Its a balancing act isn't it? If the homosexual you refer to happens to lead a right wing party that rails against gays then isn't it in the public interest?

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Absolutely. As I said earlier in the thread, where hypocrisy is concerned, there can be no defence on the part of the person 'found out'.

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Originally Posted by Dylan H

If Mosley's proposals for press and privacy reforms are pushed through the balance would shift too far against a free press I'm afraid.

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This is certainly a major concern of mine whenever the issue comes up, but I do still find the way in which basically law-abiding private lives that do not conform to what certain papers perceive to be a 'norm' get publicised rather worrying, as amusing as these cases often are. Now, I obviously realise that using prostitutes is not law-abiding, but what I'm getting at is that the defence of having an 'eccentric' or 'abnormal' private life could not be used by someone who enjoyed strangling people in their spare time. And as mentioned in one of my posts this evening, of more serious concern are the illegal methods used by sections of the media to obtain private information. Cases have been brought; punishments have never been sufficiently severe. How do you get rid of this while preserving the best of investigative journalism? It's a difficult one.