Sonia Poulton - clearly not what most call a real journalist

[tigerloaf]

I've seen it stated that Sonia Poulton, the shrieking harpie off Icke Blog TV and the Mr Punch to Katie Hopkin's, Judy off daytime TV is a journalist, a proper hack.

What a ridiculous claim!

I have spent a short time reading through the articles listed by her which supposedly show this woman to be a 'journalist'. She is nothing of the sort.

A while ago Rosalinda Hutton (or is that Linda or Rosalind) laid claim to being a journalist. That claim was soon debunked when it turned out she had a few letters printed in a couple of local rags in Kent and one or two had been turned into personal reminiscence type articles as fillers. She was pretending to be a professional in a profession she had no right to claim.

Well, Sonia Poulton has clearly written in papers with a bit more clout than Rosalinda Hutton's Bexley Times. But does what she has written deserve the title 'journalism'? In my view it most certainly does not. From the beginning Poulton has spent her time writing her autobiography in a series of articles in the Mail and Express mainly (though an odd article appeared in the Times about her not letting her daughter go to secondary school as she believed her daughter deserved more than the secondary school system could provide). Funnily that article no longer appears in the Times archive but I have managed to find a copy for the sake of completeness.

She has detailed everything about her own life in these articles from her early sexual encounters, her OCD, her depression, her breakdown, her mother's death, her sister's marriage breakup, her own marriage breakup, her inability to relate to her father, her father walking out on her family, her self-imposed celibacy, her years of drunken stupors, her wiping mace from the eyes of a rap star, her dalliance with David Bowie (don't get too excited, it seems he poured her a drink at a function), her eating disorder, her two attempts at suicide as a child, her lack of interest in dolls as a child, her irritation at the role her daughter's stepmother plays in the child's life, her dabbling in seances with her mother's blessing as a very young child, and so on and so on and so on.

I cannot think of anyone else who has produced so many autobiographical articles masquerading as journalism. All they demonstrate is that she has an ego the size of an elephant, believing that the world is so interested in her that they need to read the most minute details of her shambolic and broken life. There is absolutely no research involved in the articles I have so far read. They consist entirely of personal anecdotes and opinions derived from her own experiences. Real journalists simply don't work that way. They use properly researched evidence as the basis of their articles. She might just get away with calling herself a columnist if she had a regular column but she doesn't. She's had seven articles published in the last two years and almost nothing since the Icke debacle.

I'll condense the dozens of self-centred articles into a short biography of the woman over the next few days. It will make very interesting reading for those who wish to understand what makes up this woman who has allied herself with some of the most despicable and vile online trolls in her so-called "investigation" into the death of the troll, Sweepyface who often posted up to fifty vile, abusive posts a day in her long hate campaign against the McCanns but who is admired by Poulton and considered as a victim by her.

I believe that understanding the person who is supposedly producing a documentary about this horrible online abuser and her hate of the McCanns will best be done by knowng more about her background. Its clear that she isn't doing proper research for this either. She already has her own views and she is garnering opinion from like-minded people to support her fixed views.

Her own description of herself in these articles (which are no more journalism than any autobiography is journalism) is quite awful. She comes across as a very damaged woman. Perhaps that is why she shrieks so much when on TV?

[scoobydoo]

I get the impression that this was just attention seeking and that she thought she would get some sort of cease and desist order which would give her a good excuse for failing to come up with the documentary and play martyr. Now that hasn't happened she will have to pay at least something towards the costs of making it, admit no one wants to buy it so she is putting it in youtube or perhaps her own website, see it laughed at and every single error highlighted, and potentially face legal action from anyone see has libeled in it. If she starts trying to track down the person who reported the threats to the police she could get into trouble for that too.

[catkins]

@ Scooby



One might also think that Poulton....and that other attention seeking troll wannabee Hutton, had been separated at Birth....

[catkins]

Oh my giddy aunt....thanks to JATYK

bb1 Today at 3:29 pm


Sonia Poulton ‏@SoniaPoulton 5h5 hours ago
@Leicester_Merc still waiting to hear if you door stepped #brendaleyland shortly before she escaped to Marriott?

Leicester Mercury ‏@Leicester_Merc 5h5 hours ago
@SoniaPoulton We did not take pictures in her garden or anywhere else. Try a national newspaper or agency

Sonia Poulton
‏@SoniaPoulton
@Leicester_Merc thank you for responding. I don't want such pictures, would be deplorable to me, but heard nasty rumour that you had them.

She is heading for soooo much trouble, going along with every bit of sh*te the haters invent. Incidentally, why would any such phots be 'deplorable' to her? She's the one that was ghouling around on the deceased's doorstep, and spent the night in the hotel Leyland died in.
http://jatyk2.forumotion.co.uk/t4588-so ... oya-pouter
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Who the heck does little Miss Pointy Finger think she is?

[Alibongo]

she can doorstep till the cows come home Brenda Leyland was NOT a victim she was a COWARD who couldn't face her family and friend's knowing her disgusting online activities imo.

[tigerloaf]

Hopefully everybody will have a better idea who "Bossy Sossy" really is soon. I have just spent a long train ride amusing myself producing a fuller biography of her than is currently available in one place. Will tidy it and post this evening.

[Cath]

Don't ask me why but somehow I doubt she'll like it.

[urcrazy]

I don't think you should even give her the airtime to be honest. The standard of her writing is well known, ditto her filmed interviews, she used to work for David Icke and she even makes clear who her 'researchers' are on Twitter.

She's a bloody joke.

[tigerloaf]

I don't think you should even give her the airtime to be honest. The standard of her writing is well known, ditto her filmed interviews, she used to work for David Icke and she even makes clear who her 'researchers' are on Twitter.

She's a bloody joke.

I agree absolutely with your last sentence. She is no more a mainstream journalist than I am. Article after article is autobiographical fluff. God only knows why the editors of the papers who have paid her for her fluff have done so. There is a terribly twee article about her flaming pet dog in one paper. It is dire considering she claims to be a professional writer.

[tigerloaf]

Part One of my potted biography of the so-called 'journalist', Sonia Poulton will follow in a few moments.

I should say in advance that in these first few parts which will appear daily over the next week or so, I have used no other sources than Sonia Poulton herself. I shall give the complete list of references at the end of this first series of posts.

Even though all the reference material was written by Poulton herself there are a few oddities. Dates can be rather confusing but some of these are becoming clearer. For example, Poulton in one piece of writing even forgot which year she met the most significant partner she has had to date.

After that, I will add a section or two with more controversial material sourced from other people who have had dealings with Poulton.

Any corrections from anyone (including Poulton) will, if accompanied by some kind of reliable reference be dealt with as promptly as possible.

[tigerloaf]

SELF-STYLED 'JOURNALIST', SONIA POULTON

Part One - A bit of background

“Since I was a young child, I have been confident that there is another life after this one. How do I know? I have regular contact with it, and have done for as long as I can remember.

I accept the cynics will label me as deranged, but they’ve never seen tables tip over of their own volition, glass tumblers move around untouched and a CD holder lift off the floor and hang in the air for several seconds."

Poulton’s mother, Elizabeth, “Bet” Ann Duggan was born in Llangollen, Wales in 1926 so we are told by her daughter though there doesn’t seem to be any registration of anyone of that name being born even in the same county in that year or any other for that matter. Perhaps she was born there and registered elsewhere?. Further research will no doubt reveal the relevant record.

Anyway whilst Poulton was very young her mother practised as a medium. People flocked to the house when Poulton was a child to have their palms or tea leaves read or, best of all, to take part in one of the many séances which Elizabeth Poulton (nee Duggan) organised.

Poulton tells us all about them because she used to attend even from a very, very young age.

On one occasion the spirit of Elizabeth’s first husband, Bernard Poulton senior, joined in.

Poulton tells us:

“I was there and he spelt out who he was and that he wanted to talk with Mum. He had died of cancer 14 years before, leaving Mum, my two brothers and my sister.

Mum asked him what it was like “where he was” and he quickly spelt out, “Like a lovely garden.”

A sense of great well-being enveloped those of us present, my brother Gerald and his friend Johnny, my sister’s fiancé Andre and me and Mum. But the next moment the mood changed.

Bernard senior had more to impart and our fingers followed his energy in the glass as it spelt out

‘Y O U W I L L B E J O I N I N G M E S O O N’

Before that day was over. Mum was dead.

She died of polycystic kidneys on an autumn day, two months into my 11th year.”

That was the second parent to leave Sonia Poulton behind, though in this case her Mum had no choice.

It had been different with her father, eight years earlier. She has related the story a number of times of him coming into the room where she was playing on the lime green carpet in their little house in the Cotswolds. David Vincent Traynor gave Poulton a small gift, kissed her head and at the age of three left her, her mother and his three step children behind as he walked out the door never to see his daughter again.

Poulton’s family background is anything but simple. Both her mother and father had been married prior to their marriage together. Both had children by their previous marriages.

Poulton’s step sister, Helen (older by 13 years), Bernard junior (older by 11 years) and Gerald (older by 7 years) were the children of her mother’s second husband, Bernard senior (he of the ominous prediction from the Ouija Board). His death had left Poulton’s mother to bring up her then three children alone.
Poulton’s father also had children by a previous marriage up in Yorkshire (a home he returned to immediately after abandoning) Betty and her now four children, Sonia having been born to them.

Now Poulton in an article on the 23rd of August, 2006 claimed to have recently celebrated her 42nd birthday which would put her birth in 1964 or thereabouts. So far, and I have only been compiling this biography this afternoon whilst on a train journey north, I haven’t found a record in the Cirencester area for any Sonia Poulton, Traynor or Duggan but again, a further search will probably turn up the relevant record.

Daughter of Donald Vincent Traynor and Betty Poulton/Duggan so I also did a search for a marriage record for the couple.

There aren’t many Donald V Traynors listed and yes I did find a record in Cirencester for Elizabeth Poulton and Donald V Traynor marrying in the second quarter of 1967, when according to Poulton herself she would have been three. Was the marriage celebrated just as the relationship broke up or is there some mistake here?

And coincidentally there is another marriage listed in Cirencester of a Donald V Traynor to, this time, a Betty E Potter and that marriage was also in the second quarter of 1967. I wonder could that be some reference to Sonia's mum's first marriage? Time will tell.

The only other marriages listed for any Donald V Traynor both occurred in the Leeds area where we learn from Poulton that her father both came from and went back to. One was in 1944 and the other in 1955. It looks very much like her father may also (like her mother) have been married twice before. At least his birth certificate is easy to recognise – he was born in Leeds in 1919. At least one of his earlier marriages will figure later in the story as it gives a fascinating insight into the way Poulton's own situation gave her a very different perspective to the one she assumes others she now attacks hold. Yes, a little bit of a mystery there but all will come clear.

Leaving aside for the moment the precise date of birth for Poulton and whether it came before the marriage of her parents or that marriage occurred just as they broke up, lets have a look at what happened to Sonia and her three step siblings down in Cirencester when Donald left them behind.

Mum wasn’t slow to find a new man. This time Colin appeared in the family home. He stayed around for three or four years but also left by the time little Sonia was seven years old. She never bonded with him.

Then her mother’s illness became more serious. And at the age of 11 the four children were effectively left as orphans, mother having died and father having walked out.

Social services were a possibility for Sonia but she was in fact lucky in a way because her sister (older by 13 years) had got married at the age of 18 and had been married for some time when their mother died. She took Sonia in to her home. After that, things got really complicated in the life of budding 'journalist', Sonia Poulton.

Part Two tomorrow folks!

[Hael]

Don't ask me why but somehow I doubt she'll like it.

[urcrazy]

Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

See, I was right.
As interesting as paint drying.
The awful woman is now blowing kisses at the repulsive Outlaw. While reading her potted bio here and thinking how important she is.

[tigerloaf]

Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

See, I was right.
As interesting as paint drying.
The awful woman is now blowing kisses at the repulsive Outlaw. While reading her potted bio here and thinking how important she is.

Not a problem. If the consensus is that you don't want to know more, there will be no more. No skin off my nose.

[urcrazy]

It's probably just me Tiger

I find her journalism on a par with the political ideas of Russell Brand. Immature, simplistic, bombastic and sometimes just plain nasty. And with a huge streak of Icke.

I'd be more interested in how she became a 'journalist' than her family background I must admit.

[tigerloaf]

It's probably just me Tiger

I find her journalism on a par with the political ideas of Russell Brand. Immature, simplstic, bombastic and sometimes just plain nasty. And with a huge streak of Icke.

I'd be more interested in how she became a 'journalist' than her family background I must admit.

There is a great deal more about the woman and her present role to look at. But a lot of what she does now including her so-called 'journalism career' and how she behaves now is based on the way she was brought up and how she developed as a person under various stresses and strains.

[catkins]

I'm surprised that Icke and the Ickettes haven't popped up and put an oar into her new found coat tail hanging "cause".

[catkins]

This could be fun....Poulton has been taking advice from hater trolls....and will be looking at freaky Kikos "analysis" roflmao.

Oh and she doesn't even know which Nanny the trolls outed on Twitter.....

Research Definition of : The systematic investigation into and study of materials and sources in order to establish facts and reach new conclusions:

That's her stuffed then.

[scoobydoo]

She's a very sad character at the end of the day, like many of the haters. I suppose they deserve sympathy, but their nasty behaviour makes it very difficult for me to feel sorry for them. They also seem desperate to be a somebody, Bennett desperate to be know as a fantastic campaigner whose opinion matters, Hutton desperate to be as renowned author, poulton desperate to be seen as a proper journalist. How many others can you see being described in the media as "self styled" bloggers/campaigner/journalist etc? Brenda Leyland desperate to be a part of something, to have people care enough to react to her etc, was anyone surprised to find out seeepyface was a divorcee estranged from one son, living on the other side of the world to her other son, few friends with no occupation aside from trolling etc? Its the same with all of them.

[Cath]

Wannabees, people who don't have the qualities but yet want to be 'somebody'.
The woman is not a journalist, she is a blogger. And not even a very interesting one. I prefer reading Anna's blog.

And I like reading Tiger's resumé. Go on Tiger!

[Chinagirl]

And I like reading Tiger's resumé. Go on Tiger!


Yes. Looking forward to the next installment.

[tigerloaf]

If anyone wonders why I call Poulton a 'so-called journalist', it is evidence such as this complete insanity which persuades me that she really isn't the real thing.

What did she think she was achieving, dragging a chap called Tony to the residence of David Cameron just so that she could ask a couple of cops utterly inane questions such as what Cameron's opinion might be on various issues such as the one that Tony is suffering? She even addresses one comment to Cameron himself as if he would somehow be watching dross such as this video.

It wasn't even on the level of a publicity stunt like some of Brand's recent activities because Poulton's action didn't even get any publicity. And it certainly wasn't what any normal person would call journalism either.

It is such a crass bit of questioning that I would expect a first year journalism student to be laughed at if he or she presented it in class as a piece of course work. It certainly wouldn't get good marks for either relevance, interview skills, public reaction, research (she didn't even know if Cameron was at home) or anything else for that matter.

[MelO]

And I like reading Tiger's resumé. Go on Tiger!


Yes. Looking forward to the next installment.

Moi aussi (even if it appeals to Sonia's overinflated ego, the woman clearly has no shame whatsoever).

[urcrazy]

I can't watch her. I did try.

She wears such a pained expression it makes her very hard to watch. When she gets into full-on hector mode I just have to press stop.

[catkins]

nuts or what?