Curse of Fleetwood Mac (Daily Mail UK)

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Originally Posted by aleuzzi

But most offensive about the article is the way it attempts to capitalize on Welch's personal tragedy to advance a "theory" in the service of selling a good story. I know this is par for the course in a lot of tabloid journalism, but this was a "too soon" moment. And his suicide apparently had nothing to do with Fleetwood Mac. Very bad taste of the writer.

Exactly! That's the point. I think that most of what I've read in the article it's true. I may be wrong, but in fact we will never be sure. But that's not the point, the point is that it's a very bad moment to write things like that, and the way he wrote it makes us angry. The truth can be told in several ways, and each way is also understood in a way.

Tabloids are tasteless, sometimes hoax, or a mix of hoax with badly told truth. But they succeed. They succeed because people buy tabloids and enjoy reading it. And they also they success because there are people who hate what tabloids write. But comment it a lot. You see, we are in the third page of this thread. Whether we believe it or not, enjoy it or hate it, find it boring, funny or ridiculous, the point is that we are talking and talking about it. If the writer read this thread, he would be glad, wether we support or attack him. And he would enjoy finding people discussing and fighting because of his article.

The only way tabloids could fail is ignoring them. But that seldom happens. Why? as a psychologist friend told me.. and I'm saying this as respectful as I can, because human beings enjoy morbid. Gossip is a way of morbid.