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GPY&R staffer accuses journalist of defaming her over ‘porn posts’ story

Gloria: 'defamed'

One of the GPY&R staffers targeted in a story linking the agency to the Defence Force Skype sex scandal has accused the journalist who wrote the story of misinformation and dragging her reputation through “through a 1950s rectitude filter”.

In a blog posting published today, Tiphereth Gloria fired back at News Ltd’s defence writer Ian McPhedran who broke the original story.

In the story, McPhedran alleged that Gloria’s Tumblr blog “features images of women in compromising situations, pornographic photos and other material”

Gloria has today republished all of those postings, along with their context. She said that, as with much Tumblr content, she was reposting material first created elsewhere and that none of it was actually pornographic in nature anyway.   

After the news story was posted a week ago it was also picked up by TV news.

Gloria said the press “intentionally omitted the images and commentary that accompanied the blog posts in question”.

She said: “In summary, my blog posts were taken out of context described inaccurately, with deliberate intent to mislead the public, defaming me in the process.”

At the time of posting McPhedran was not answering calls to his office line.

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