Posts by Mike Clark

Autogyro legend Ken Wallis hangs up wings at 97

I think we've found the elusive old, bold pilot.

Baby-roasting BBQ pulled from Sears site

More than URL manipulation

It was a bit more than URL manipulation, in that the poisoned page was then caught in a front-end cache and served to other visitors. LOL!

Reader comments bigger legal risk than forums

The risk is not libel, it is contempt of court

It seems to me that to invite reader comments on certain news stories is to risk breaching the strict court reporting rules about what can be said when. For example, when reporting a crime, you can pretty much speculate at will until somebody is charged, then you must be very careful until they have been tried. To allow readers to post "Glad they've got that toerag locked up, he's obviously guilty, I know him and he's been in trouble for the same thing before" at the bottom of your article would not be clever and could possibly get the case thrown out on the basis that it is no longer possible for the suspect to get a fair trial.