So what IS the Becham rumour?

Considering as ILXOR gets indexed by google regularly - beware !

Allegedly.

AFKAP - salut!

If, as I suspect, you are a tabloid reporter, there are about half a dozen people posting on this board - naming no names, of course - who could happily take the full record of your continued harrassment of (insert relevant name here) well over your head to your editor, in a professional capacity. I would never dream of telling you how to do your job, but on reflection I feel your work is done here and any further correspondence might impact badly on your long-term prospects.

(Sorry everybody, I just couldn't allow this to carry on any longer)

I'm sorry if that sounds unsympathetic, because I'm very much on our friend P's side here (while reserving judgement about the boyf's reform). Whether this annoying troll is the same journalist I have no idea, but that's beside the point: I don't see that P has done anything at all morally wrong (whether P is right about the reform is an issue of accuracy of judgement, not morality), and deserves none of the harassment.

Don't be ridiculous. Firstly there's no proof this poster is a journalist or anyone in particular. The posts are anonymous and, according to Graham, were tracing back to an anonymising service. Secondly tabloid editors sanction far worse activities by their staff than a few mildly insinuating posts on an MB (short for message board - use of this abbreviation is a sign of being net savvy). As N. says, this is yesterday's news (and it was never a story in the first place south of the border so I can't see the News of the World being interested).

[on a point of order, David, the News of the World has a Scottish edition]

Fair enough, I didn't realise that. Nevertheless to run a story on this they'd need something substantially more than a rehash of what the Daily Record have already published, wouldn't they?