Yet only the Guardian carried more than a paragraph and several papers ignored the story. There was not a word, for example, in the Sun, whose editor, Rebekah Wade, has always been such a sturdy opponent of paedophilia. That wouldn’t be – would it? – because the red-tops fear they might themselves be caught out one day. Grauniad
Made me wonder too.
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I suspect that this story points out a rather uncomfortable truth about how our culture views teenage sexuality. The Sun has, I believe, happily used topless models on their sixteenth birthday.
I think there is an awful lot of hypocrisy and lack of balance.
I’m really quite shocked. I wonder what view the childs parents had on the situation?
I actually bought the Guardian today, for lack of proper newspapers left in the shop. What a load of codswallop. Hmmph. Then again I don’t read the Sun either.
Do you look at the pictures?
Sometimes, but from a distance, warily.
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