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Paul Williams: Investigative journalist and force for good or scumbag opportunist

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  • #62
    Nodin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    greetings wrote: »
    Petey boo,would you PM it to me? It will actually kill me with frustration.

    Myself also, if you wouldn't mind. I half remember that interview, but not that particular bit. The part that stuck with me was when he put on his pathetic 'dramatic' tone and started going on about how 'anyone could go on the internet and be up to anything' and 'the guards have no way of stopping it'. Fear mongering of the worst order.


  • #63
    Precious flower
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,812 ✭✭✭Precious flower


    He works for the Sunday World, I mean come on, one of the Ireland's most ridiculously sensational papers. If he really wants to make a difference why doesn't he go and work for a serious newspaper?


  • #64
    Fear Uladh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 810 ✭✭✭Fear Uladh


    Precious flower wrote: »
    He works for the Sunday World, I mean come on, one of the Ireland's most ridiculously sensational papers. If he really wants to make a difference why doesn't he go and work for a serious newspaper?

    Is there such a thing? As sad as it is sensationalism sells.


  • #65
    OutlawPete
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,689 ✭✭✭✭OutlawPete


    Precious flower wrote: »
    He works for the Sunday World ..

    He's with the News Of The World now.

    Going down in the world it would seem.

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055865710


  • #66
    Precious flower
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,812 ✭✭✭Precious flower


    Chillaxe wrote: »
    Is there such a thing? As sad as it is sensationalism sells.

    I hope there is, :( although you're totally right these papers do sell. I just think that if he was serious about stopping these scumbags he'd wouldn't be working for a tabloid newspaper. Instead of getting justice for the innocent people who have been killed by these thugs, he's actually helping them. I wonder does he even realise that these criminals buy his paper to see if they've been mentioned and have a good old laugh about it?


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  • #67
    Precious flower
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,812 ✭✭✭Precious flower


    OutlawPete wrote: »
    He's with the News Of The World now.

    Going down in the world it would seem.

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055865710

    Sorry my mistake! It just keeps getting better :rolleyes:!


  • #68
    Fear Uladh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 810 ✭✭✭Fear Uladh


    Precious flower wrote: »
    I hope there is, :( although you're totally right these papers do sell. I just think that if he was serious about stopping these scumbags he'd wouldn't be working for a tabloid newspaper. Instead of getting justice for the innocent people who have been killed by these thugs, he's actually helping them. I wonder does he even realise that these criminals buy his paper to see if they've been mentioned and have a good old laugh about it?


    I am far from Cynical but for the same paper who has Bertie Ahern as sports writer I don't think the guy is looking for much credibility therefore hard to take seriously.


  • #69
    Bigdeadlydave
    Closed Accounts Posts: 611 ✭✭✭Bigdeadlydave


    Here Pete pm me too please!


  • #70
    Nodin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    Bigdeadlydave wrote: »
    Here Pete pm me too please!

    I have PM'd you his PM.


  • #71
    Bigdeadlydave
    Closed Accounts Posts: 611 ✭✭✭Bigdeadlydave


    A disgusting example of attention seeking. Showboating in its most base form.


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  • #72
    pebbles21
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,816 ✭✭✭pebbles21


    Hey Bigeadlydavey can you PM me the PM nodin sent you, that he got PM`d from Outlawpete ?

    Thanks :p


  • #73
    Conor Bourke
    Hosted Moderators Posts: 17,426 ✭✭✭✭Conor Bourke


    Darlughda wrote: »
    Oh no. What's wrong with Tiesto?:eek:

    What's right with him?!

    And can someone PM mee too, I'm DYING to know now, god damn my inherent nosiness


  • #74
    spudmonkey17
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 149 ✭✭spudmonkey17


    pebbles21 wrote: »
    Hey Bigeadlydavey can you PM me the PM nodin sent you, that he got PM`d from Outlawpete ?

    Thanks :p

    I'll take one too if yez don't mind :D


  • #75
    Nodin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    Alaskimo-cake wrote: »
    What's right with him?!

    And can someone PM mee too, I'm DYING to know now, god damn my inherent nosiness

    I PM'd the PM that I was PM'd. You can PM the PM to the Spudmonkey.


  • #76
    spudmonkey17
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 149 ✭✭spudmonkey17


    Oooo it's like Chinese whispers! How exciting! :pac:


  • #77
    colly10
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,044 ✭✭✭colly10


    Could someone forward the PM of what was said :D Must all be a tabloid readers at heart :)


  • #78
    Dennis the Stone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,358 ✭✭✭Dennis the Stone


    I'd like to see it as well!


  • #79
    OutlawPete
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,689 ✭✭✭✭OutlawPete


    Ageispolis wrote: »
    I'd like to see it as well!

    Okay, I PM'd you the PM that I originally PM'd Nodin, which in turn he then PM'd BigDeadlyDave and Alaskimo, which was then PM'd to Spudmonkey.


  • #80
    griffdaddy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,414 ✭✭✭griffdaddy


    i wanna know too!


  • #81
    Proxy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 847 ✭✭✭Proxy


    griffdaddy wrote: »
    i wanna know too!
    And me!!


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  • #82
    ph3n0m666
    Closed Accounts Posts: 64 ✭✭ph3n0m666


    pm me, and I'll just post it in the thread - if it was on the Late Late Show, it a matter of public record


  • #83
    OutlawPete
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,689 ✭✭✭✭OutlawPete


    If anybody really just has to know what the fool said, PM me - no point cluttering the thread.

    It's not exciting, boring really .. just not something worth posting is all.


  • #84
    aidan24326
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,925 ✭✭✭aidan24326


    and me too, PM awaits! Though if it was the LLS, as someone else said it's on public record, about as public as it gets so I don't see why the problem.


  • #85
    OutlawPete
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,689 ✭✭✭✭OutlawPete


    Okay, I'm gonna post it just to stop the requests at this stage.

    Spoiler for those that don't care what the twat said.
    He was just showboating as usual and when the audience was gasping at all he was saying about being shown child pornography by the Guards he went for the homerun with:

    "I seen photos of men urinating on children.."

    Clearing just for effect and attention as it added zero to the discussion


  • #86
    questioner
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 408 ✭✭questioner


    i see the headline on the sunday world now: "paul williams, admits watching child porn, converses freely with graphic details!"


  • #87
    strobe
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,872 ✭✭✭strobe


    ColHol wrote: »
    Classic example of what he does is how he portrayed the General, as a darling ordinary decent criminal, sure he never touched drugs and always took care of his family. Fair enough he nailed some young fella to a pool table but sure didnt he bring him to the hospital after?

    :confused: Did you read the book? Or did you just watch the film and presume it was a faithful adaptation? There is no need to answer....

    As far as Williams goes....he writes whatever seems like a story that will sell and to hell with facts or integrity. If he didn't try and come off so high and mighty I'd shrug my shoulders, cause that's tabloid journalism for you. But he does. I know of two stories he ran that were complete and utter bullsh1t and could have very possibly led to people being murdered. Weather that was unreliable information given to him that he never bothered to verify or he just out and out made **** up off the top of his head, no one but he will ever know. Either way, if he ever had the slightest credibility, it was completely shot long ago.


  • #88
    questioner
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 408 ✭✭questioner


    actually that he sadi that is quite disturbing, the fact that AGS are allegedly showing child porn to interested third parties is even more disturbing, and incidentally, an offence

    Child Trafficking and Pornography Act, 1998



    5 1998 22
    [GA] Producing, distributing, etc., child pornography.

    5.—(1) Subject to sections 6(2) and 6(3), any person who—
    [GA]

    (a) knowingly produces, distributes, prints or publishes any child pornography,
    [GA]

    (b) knowingly imports, exports, sells or shows any child pornography,
    [GA]

    (c) knowingly publishes or distributes any advertisement likely to be understood as conveying that the advertiser or any other person produces, distributes, prints, publishes, imports, exports, sells or shows any child pornography,
    [GA]

    (d) encourages or knowingly causes or facilitates any activity mentioned in paragraph (a), (b) or (c), or
    [GA]

    (e) knowingly possesses any child pornography for the purpose of distributing, publishing, exporting, selling or showing it


  • #89
    heffomike54
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 434 ✭✭heffomike54


    He is a legend of the highest order, regardless of what he writes.:)


  • #90
    Themagerleague
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16 ✭Themagerleague


    Il go for scumbag opportunist


    makes me sick when i see his add on tv


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  • #91
    filthymcnasty
    Closed Accounts Posts: 644 ✭✭✭filthymcnasty


    He may write a lot of dog****, but the guy looks seriously stressed out. Apparently his gaf is like fort knox and under 24hr police protection. So for whatever celeb status he may have craved, its definitely had its price, looks like its taken its toll on the guy.
    As someone said earlier it like he wants to go the martyr route.


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