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It has been a busy week in Mail world this week. Mailwatch has finally announced its new team of writers, and 5cc has kicked things off with two excellent articles on immigration: How the Mail's Home Affair Editor fact checks press releases
Population growth and Density. Should we be as frightened as the Mail wants us to be? If 5cc keeps this up, he'll have enough posts for a book within 6 months. Alone In The Dark has an excellent post on Stephen Glover's article arguing that Max Mosley's orgy was in the public interest and there should be no privacy law to block such stories being reported: Whose standards of perversion (and so normality), degradation,¹ and nastiness are we applying? Moseley clearly thought that free, consenting individuals, harming no one but themselves were not doing anything untoward. The same appears to be true of the people he paid for 34 years for the pleasure. So in whose interest is the Press acting here? In exposing the acts of Moseley to public disdain and ridicule, it does the same for the law-abiding behaviour of a minority, indeed, it does the former through the latter. It is assuming a public interest that coincides with its own interest in rejecting this ‘perverted’ behaviour and uses this to intrude on the private sexual morality of not just Moseley, but any other law-abiding, consensual adults behaving in the same way. Tabloid Watch has a post on pointing out that is in the same vein as my post Siding with the enemy: Schools talking to their pupils about homosexuality is 'deranged social engineering', 'fatuous drivel' and 'cultural fascism'. His ignorance knows no bounds. He seems to think homosexuality is nuture not nature. He talks about 'parents who choose to tell their children about homosexuality,' as if children who are gay haven't worked out something for themselves already. And you can hear in lines such as 'peddle gay propaganda to children as young as five' some bizarre paranoia about kids being 'turned'. The Daily Quail looks at how the the Mail - as the last bastion of taste and moral decency - uses Kelly Brook in a bikini to get more hits on its website: Within the first few paragraphs of a hard-hitting investigative report on Kelly Brook's likeness being used by the Chinese to sell prophylactics, the words 'sex', 'bikini', 'body', 'David Beckham', 'Sean Connery' and 'erectile dysfunction' appeared, suggesting that someone at Northcliffe House - probably hidden away in the basement, shackled to one of the latest Acorn computers - actually knows how the internets work. The enemies of reason looks at racism in the Mail by bravely tackling the Mail Online comments: What do the Mail and its readers think of racism? And finally, Bloggerheads (amongst others, but Tim always links to everyone involved) covers the shocking Scottish Express frontpage about the surviving Dunblane kids: basically. they are behaving like 18 year-old. Check it out, it really is gutter journalism, and utterly pointless to boot.
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