News Orgs. Invading Privacy Recently?

[Mr. B]

I have a take home mid term I'm working on and I need a story in which a news organization (print/TV/internet) was accused of violating someone's privacy. I'm having trouble finding a good case and I am wondering if someone here perhaps recalls such a case in the last few years.

 

[JoeZhang]

World motorsport boss Max Mosley has won a legal action against a Sunday newspaper over claims an orgy he took part in had Nazi overtones.

The High Court ruled the News of the World did breach Mr Mosley's privacy, awarding him £60,000 in damages. Mr Justice Eady said he could expect privacy for consensual "sexual activities (albeit unconventional)". Mr Mosley admitted a sado-masochistic sex session with five prostitutes, but denied that it had a Nazi theme. The paper's story was based on a secret video from one of the women who took part in the sex session at a London flat in March.

At the High Court, Mr Justice Eady said there was "no evidence that the gathering on 28 March 2008 was intended to be an enactment of Nazi behaviour or adoption of any of its attitudes. Nor was it in fact.



"I see no genuine basis at all for the suggestion that the participants mocked the victims of the Holocaust." The "bondage, beating and domination" that did take place was "typical of S&M behaviour", he said.

"But there was no public interest or other justification for the clandestine recording, for the publication of the resulting information and still photographs, or for the placing of the video extracts on the News of the World website - all of this on a massive scale."

However, the judge did not make the unprecedented award of punitive - rather than compensatory - damages that had been sought by Mr Mosley. He said: "It is perhaps worth adding that there is nothing 'landmark' about this decision.

"It is simply the application to rather unusual facts of recently developed but established principles."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7523034.stm

 

[Locutus of Bored]

http://www.austin360.com/tv/content/tv/stories/2006/01/24tvcolumn.html

 

[Hermiod]

World motorsport boss Max Mosley has won a legal action against a Sunday newspaper over claims an orgy he took part in had Nazi overtones.

The Max Mosley business is what I would have suggested too. I still see no reason for it. There was absolutely no public interest basis for the story.

 

[Mr. B]

Both of those are good suggestions. Thanks guys.

 

[Sephiroth]

dude, just go to the supermarket and check out any tabloid

 

[Zulu Romeo]

World motorsport boss Max Mosley has won a legal action against a Sunday newspaper over claims an orgy he took part in had Nazi overtones.

The Max Mosley business is what I would have suggested too. I still see no reason for it. There was absolutely no public interest basis for the story.

It was a hard-hitting ruling, though. Mosley clearly wasn't going to take the allegation lying down.

 

[Hermiod]

It was a hard-hitting ruling, though. Mosley clearly wasn't going to take the allegation lying down.

I started a TNZ thread on this when he won his case. He should have taken them for every single penny they had. The News of the World should belong to him now.

They sent people with cameras after him simply because they didn't like him looking to dig up dirt and then they posted page after page displaying nothing but their own ignorance of alternative sexual activities.

The same newspaper that thinks a woman using a dildo is "kinky" has no place commenting on Mosley's private life or anyone else's.

 

[CaptJimboJones]

They sent people with cameras after him simply because they didn't like him looking to dig up dirt and then they posted page after page displaying nothing but their own ignorance of alternative sexual activities.

To be fair, the videos in question weren't taken by the newspaper, they were filmed by one of the women participating in the orgy. She later sold them to the paper.

And the pivotal point of the case wasn'over the orgy itself, Mosley was angry that the incident was reported as being a "Nazi-themed" orgy, when it turns out it was just a regular old-fashioned whips-n-chains orgy, with no Nazi overtones.

Still, this guy's privacy was violated regardless. The paper got what it deserved. Fucking tabloids.

 

[Captain Shaw]

They sent people with cameras after him simply because they didn't like him looking to dig up dirt and then they posted page after page displaying nothing but their own ignorance of alternative sexual activities.

To be fair, the videos in question weren't taken by the newspaper, they were filmed by one of the women participating in the orgy. She later sold them to the paper.

And the pivotal point of the case wasn'over the orgy itself, Mosley was angry that the incident was reported as being a "Nazi-themed" orgy, when it turns out it was just a regular old-fashioned whips-n-chains orgy, with no Nazi overtones.

Still, this guy's privacy was violated regardless. The paper got what it deserved. Fucking tabloids.

I do not know if this is true because i heard it on another message board but the poster said that the women was black mailed by the paper to film it.
But like i said i not sure if its true.
I never read anything about the orgy because i did not consider it news.

 

[Hermiod]

To be fair, the videos in question weren't taken by the newspaper, they were filmed by one of the women participating in the orgy. She later sold them to the paper.

And the pivotal point of the case wasn'over the orgy itself, Mosley was angry that the incident was reported as being a "Nazi-themed" orgy, when it turns out it was just a regular old-fashioned whips-n-chains orgy, with no Nazi overtones.

Still, this guy's privacy was violated regardless. The paper got what it deserved. Fucking tabloids.

The newspaper had no reason to buy it other than it's Max Mosley, son of a Facist. Who knew the newspapers believed in Klingon justice ?

 

[CaptJimboJones]

To be fair, the videos in question weren't taken by the newspaper, they were filmed by one of the women participating in the orgy. She later sold them to the paper.

And the pivotal point of the case wasn'over the orgy itself, Mosley was angry that the incident was reported as being a "Nazi-themed" orgy, when it turns out it was just a regular old-fashioned whips-n-chains orgy, with no Nazi overtones.

Still, this guy's privacy was violated regardless. The paper got what it deserved. Fucking tabloids.

The newspaper had no reason to buy it other than it's Max Mosley, son of a Facist. Who knew the newspapers believed in Klingon justice ?

Hey, I'm not defending the paper, which is a scummy tabloid. Just pointing out that (as far as I've read, anyway) the paper itself didn't film the orgy. Now, it may be true that the woman filmed it on behalf of the newspaper, which is just as bad.

I'm as sick of anyone that these sexual escapades are reported as "news." I could care less who or what these politicians f*ck. And it's particularly bad when the story starts with a tabloid, and then mainstream papers report it because "the story is out there."