Dan in Details magazine - The Fall Out.

[Steve]

--- "Steve" <bboyminn at ...> wrote:
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> --- "Geoff Bannister" <gbannister10@> wrote:
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> > Geoff:
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> > ...
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> > There was also what I felt was a  intrusion on his privacy 
> > in the comments about his 16th birthday which, to me, seemed
> > to be slanted to sound lewd.
> > 
> > I just felt that there was an underlying tone of wanting to 
> > get a snigger from the readers. Hey, guys, DR drinks, swears
> > and has sex. So do a lot of people, but it doesn't define a 
> > person.
> > 
> > ...
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> bboyminn:
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> I think that is absolutely IT. This was the interviewer trying
> to put Dan in situations where he would give titillating 
> answers to titillating question. When he could be manipulated
> in to saying things that could be twisted into sexual 
> innuendo. 
> 
> I mean, if there's no scandal, there's no story. It's dead
> boring.
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> ...
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> steve/bluewizard
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bboyminn:

I was going to post this last night but it was getting late.

Look at any collective news source and search for Dan Radcliffe,
and what are the headlines resulting from that 'Details'
article.

The first is 'Dan Radcliffe wants to play a drag queen'. 
Something Dan did say, but in context, he only thought the
eye makeup was cool. There are several variations of this
headline, but they are all playing on the apparent 'scandal'
and all the implied innuendo that goes with it.

The other resulting headline, is that Dan lost his virginity
to an older woman, some even name the older woman, who is
some one that Dan was associated with at the time he turned
16. Again, filled with innuendo and /implied/ information.

First, Dan never said he lost is virginity on that night. It
may have been before or it may have been after. Nor did Dan
even say he had sex the night of his 16th birthday. He merely
said he spent it with an older woman (apparently age 23). 

But those news reporters are taking very small information 
and amplifying it all out of proportion. They are taking
what were originally no more than vague implications and
exaggerating them into highly speculative 'facts'. And I
really use the term 'facts' in the loosest possible way.

This is all clear indication, that if there is no scandal,
then their is no story. And if you don't have real scandal,
then you just make it up. Really kind of sad. 

Nothing in these headlines is true -

"Radcliffe's confession of losing virginity at 16"
-Oneindia, India 

Washington (ANI): "Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe has 
revealed that he lost his virginity at the age of 16 to a 
woman much older than him. ..."

"Daniel Radcliffe first used his magic wand with an older woman?"
 -Los Angeles Times

"Daniel Radcliffe lost virginity to Harry Potter hairdresser Amanda
..." -NEWS.com.au

"Radcliffe's virginity shock" -Scotsman

Typically, one source prints misinformation, and all the rest
just repeat it as fact. Dan didn't 'confess' to losing his
virginity on that night. Neither did he confess to having
sex that night. Neither did he name his alleged partner. All
pure speculation printed as shocking news. 

Like I said, the state of news in incredibly sad today. 

Just passing it along.

Steve/bluewizard