A Study in Hypocrisy

[steepholm]

From Huffington Post, 23rd March, with reference to the death of Lucy Meadows:

A Mail spokesman told HuffPost UK: "It is regrettable that this tragic death should now be the subject of an orchestrated twitterstorm, fanned by individuals – including former Labour spin doctor Alastair Campbell – with agendas to pursue."

And then there's today's Mail front page:



Enough said. More than enough.

Comments

[cmcmck]

Enough already certainly, but when will 'the authorities' however defined finally react to this foul debasement of news privision?

My suspicion is that they won't simply because they don't damn well care!

[steepholm]

I was just saying elsewhere that I heard A. N. Wilson on the radio a few minutes ago, trying to defend yesterday's article. The gist is that Philpott was motivated by the loss of benefits when his mistress took their children from the house - so it's legitimate to link the killings to the benefits system.

Oddly enough, though when Stephen Seddon was convicted of murdering his parents in order to get a £230,000 inheritance a few days ago, the Mail treated it as a personal tragedy, and did not run a headline screaming "Vile product of system of inherited wealth." Funny, that.