The former Conservative politician who was wrongly linked to a child sex abuse scandal as a result of a both 'newsnight' and ITV 'This morning'. Newsnight aled to the peer being mistakenly implicated in a paedophile ring that targeted children at a care home in Wrexham in north Wales. On twitter he also was subjected to lurid online claims falsely linking him to sexual abuse at a north Wales care home which Schofield attempted to bring to the Prime Minister's attention live on This Morning earlier this month. After a couple of days the allegations made were completely false, as it was found out that the report BBC done was all in accurate. Now his solicitors are helping him sue This morning and the BBC over the false information in which was published by these industries. Including all the tweeters which circulated these rumors to the public.
In my opinion i believe that these big industries took a huge risk to publicize such information on their broadcasting network. They probably didn't investigate these allegation enough to find out the real truth about Lord McAlphine, and to do this without the right information could cause these industries a lot of money as it did. It also shows the impact the internet and social networking has on people opinions in this generation, as it's what controls the world now. More and more people rely on the information which is published on the internet, then the cliche quote 'Innocent, till prove and guilty'.
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/4645566/lord-mcalpine-anger-bbc-newsnight.html- The sun
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2236867/Phillip-Schofield-ITV-pay-Lord-McAlpine-125k-damages-Tory-paedophile-list-blunder.html - Daily Mail
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