Fables, Tall Tales and Changing Narratives again

Fables, Tall Tales and Changing Stories again.

Media Narratives and Changing stories

Online media has become the way to get news for many people, especially over the last ten or so years, but the thing about online media is that people screenshot and share what they see and hear with others offline, so online news becomes public news. During the past six weeks fans of Liam Payne have been told various versions of events on his passing which has left fans and the public baffled and constantly questioning how so many narratives can be released in regards to one story. 

Fans of Liam were left devastated on October 16th when news of Liam’s passing was broken by TMZ online. Images of Liam’s deceased corpse were shared online and multiple news sources picked up the story from TMZ, alleging it to be true. It has since come to light that members of Liam’s own family found out he had passed away though Google alerts. 

Not only is this horrific but it shows an incredible (shocking?) breach of privacy and decency by online media sources. His own sister found out he had passed away because someone decided that he didn’t even deserve the dignity of a call from the embassy to his family, instead selling a picture or a number of pictures to the vultures in the press online. 

However, my article isn’t just about the absolute disgrace of that lack of decency - it’s about the stories of how Liam passed that have been shared online since. The hotel recently sold images from their CCTV to the Daily Mail newspaper online and horrific images of Liam were shown around the world where three people were carrying him through the lobby by the arms and legs. 

In the images his body appeared rigid, although I certainly do not want to look too closely at those images because they are haunting and disgraceful. Liam was a person and he deserved dignity and carrying someone like that not only isn’t dignified, but also isn’t safe for the person being carried or the people doing the carrying. 

Further to that, the hotel are now claiming that Liam threatened to leave and they locked him in his room to keep him safe, while calling 911 and asking for help, however, my problem with that narrative is that if Liam’s  level of consciousness was so bad that they needed to manhandle him as they did, then how did he in the space of a few minutes regain consciousness enough to attempt to escape from the balcony? 

Also why are they only now releasing information saying his bag was found the floor below? And why are they changing their story from him allegedly fainting over a 1.4m barrier to him trying to climb down to the floor below? Why do the stories keep changing? Is because they are trying to find a story that fits the evidence - only the evidence can’t fit the story because it’s all lies? 

How does a person with only trace amounts of alcohol, cocaine and setraline (antidepressant medication) become such a risk that he needs isolating in a hotel room when fans all know that one of Liam’s fears was being isolated again in hotel rooms? Why are they now trying to use Liam’s fear as a justification for his death and why have the stories over how he died changed a dozen time since his passing?

The truth doesn’t change. It’s static, factual and evidence based. However lies always change and liars are always caught because they can’t keep their stories straight so Liam’s death story has changed multiple times because the evidence, the facts, don’t fit what the hotel claims so they keep changing the story to fit the evidence. 

The evidence is that Liam didn’t brace for impact, so he was unconscious as he fell. The evidence is that Liam had 25 separate injuries that an ME has stated for the record as inconsistent with the manner of fall. The fact is that Liam fell parallel to the building, not perpendicular, if he fell at all. The fact is he missed four separate obstacles on the way down. The fact is those 25 injuries could have come from somewhere else and while they could potentially be explained by a fall from height, had he fallen down stairs shows that perhaps the fall was just a coverup to explain the injuries on his person.

Liam did not deserve to die. Full stop. Period. The End. But knowing he could have been saved and knowing that someone out there knows what happened to him is infuriating. If someone dies in a suspicious way the media should do their jobs and point out inconsistencies, not try to prove falsified stories that have no basis in fact. Something isn’t right with Liam’s death - fans know it, the family know it, his friends know it and so does the general public and until the stories stop and the truth comes out, we won’t stop questioning the media narratives and the stories about how he died because we can see that there is no truth to the tales being spread. 

We won’t stop fighting so perhaps the media and the police can do their jobs properly and investigate his death as though a crime had occurred because it’s quite clear that many crimes have occurred. Further if the image of Liam being carried across the hotel is correct, then those three men carrying him, whoever ordered him to be taken to his room and whoever decided to leave him in there are guilty of negligent homicide regardless of what happened after. Someone needing help should not be isolated in a hotel room and help should have been called immediately and not when it was far too late for the help to arrive. 

It’s too late to help Liam now, but he deserves justice for the way his death was portrayed and his family deserves to have the truth. 

BTC.