[Kreuzberger]

I think the use of the long distance lens from far away is the epitome of papping, isn't it?

My understanding of it, in the pejorative sense, is aggressive physical intrusion. Sure, a paparazzo simply takes vanilla shots of celebs in the wild but I think the term has evolved to really mean behaviour that is anything from irritating right up to being downright intimidation.

[Safe_Timber_Man]

I'm assuming everyone has seen the United Airlines story?

Man Is Forcibly Removed From Overbooked United Airlines Flight
http://fortune.com/video/2017/04/10/man ... es-flight/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;



Just in case you haven't: United Airlines overbooked their flight, as airlines commonly do. Randomly selected passengers to bump off (after already having got onto the plane). Video emerges of them very forcefully dragging a man out of his seat, cutting his face in the process, and then dragging him, bloodied, down the aisle and off the plane.

Massive backlash against United. Everyone is understandably appalled by viciousness of it all. It was a disgrace.



So the Daily Mail decided to go with a smear campaign against the victim. Absolutely nothing to do with the incident. Just an outright vindictive smear campaign against somebody who's been assaulted:



Doctor dragged off United flight was felon who traded prescription drugs for secret gay sex with patient half his age and took them himself - and he needed anger management, was 'not forthright' and had control issues, psychiatrist found
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... y-sex.html



To make matters worse (or better?) there is a building rumour that the Daily Mail have in fact got the wrong person.




Daily Mail Libels United Passenger
http://zelo-street.blogspot.co.uk/

[mr angry manchester]

There really is no pit of hell deep enough for the Daily Mail. It is just a rancorous, cess pit of bile and hate.

[Kate]

I'm glad they pointed out the doctor (or maybe not him after all? ) had "gay sex" with another man, rather than merely "sex". I look forward to them pointing out that a man and woman have "heterosexual sex"...

[Safe_Timber_Man]

Maybe I'm being overly sensitive here and reading too much into it, but to me this is taking a tragic incident about a young lad who has been battling with depression and turning it into "Snowflakes can't even handle losing their iPhones these days" headline.



Student vlogger hanged himself after 'sobbing uncontrollably' after losing his iPhone during a night drinking at an Arctic Monkeys theme party
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... Phone.html

United4life89, Manchester , United Kingdom, 2 hours ago
All Over a phone?
+860 -252

No. This is clearly not about a phone at all. But well done for responding in the way the Mail were hoping for.

[Catkins]

The family of the boy are, as you'd expect, devastated and the Mail is making it worse.

[Safe_Timber_Man]

Yep, was just about to post that.

According to my girlfriend there are also family members (included the grandmother, I think?) on Facebook who are also very upset with the Mail.