Our thanks to Nigel for this on the BBC, published a few hours ago. He writes:

“Though the BBC reports that after a year nothing provable has been found, and therefore the man is innocent, they gleefully rehearse the accusations and publish the DA’s comments on the “courage and resilience” of the accusers. So we’re left thinking he got off, but really he’s guilty. So with no evidence, no court case and no conviction, he’s condemned.

Sometimes its a bit more subtle, such as with Mason Greenwood in which always they mention the accusations and the fact the case was dropped. They never include that his accuser was his girlfriend Harriett Robson who has been with him ever since and they have two children. Which gives a different cast to the situation. Again leaving out this part of the story leaves with the impression Greenwood “got off” but really is guilty.

Manson in particular was the ideal “perpetrator” with his long career of cultivating an Alice Cooper persona of excess, an ideal “monster” making it all the more likely a year’s intensive investigation and publicity would turn up something from a very public lifestyle of sex, drugs and rock and roll. While Greenwood, like Ched Evans, fulfilled the stereotype of the vastly overpaid arrogant footy star who we love to hate.”

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