Moss dross: Back with a vengeance.
Did you miss it? I know I did:
On a day in which a world leader was struck down by a massive stroke (albeit a little late for the first editions, I realise) and in a more Sun-friendly story a 3-year-old girl was abducted from her home and raped before being found in a crashed car by police, the Sun wisely chooses to go with a story about everyone's favourite waif. Also of note is that Daily Mail also used the same picture of Moss on their front page in a smaller column, but in which she looks substantially better than in the Sun's:
Do you think that *shock* the Sun might have altered the photo to make her look worse?!
Still, maybe Kate Moss can count herself lucky that's she not Nikki Sanderson, who's been splashed across the front page of the Daily Spurt (Sport) topless, caught by a paparazzo (possible sic) (To judge by the front page of the Daily Star they are also in there). Then again, seeing as the Daily Mirror also featured Kate topless a few weeks ago while she was on a beach and also while receiving a massage, then had the audacity to print a story saying she was being stalked by a sex pest, perhaps it should be Nikki who's thankful.
Correction to the above: Nikki Sanderson was not topless, it was a typical bit of Sport fakery on the front page which made me think that. Apologies.
Also of note today in the media world is that several newspapers have rather unkindly printed images of a woman in London jumping to her death (I can't claim to have seen them so can only go by this article), which seems rather ghoulish and morbid, to say the least:
Strange how one of the newspapers (the Sun) which campaigned so heavily for the 90-days detention without trial for terrorist suspects, supposedly so that outrages such as the suicide bombings of July the 7th would not happen again, finds it perfectly OK to feature pictures of a woman jumping to her death. Still, maybe she was an asylum seeking gipsy.
On a day in which a world leader was struck down by a massive stroke (albeit a little late for the first editions, I realise) and in a more Sun-friendly story a 3-year-old girl was abducted from her home and raped before being found in a crashed car by police, the Sun wisely chooses to go with a story about everyone's favourite waif. Also of note is that Daily Mail also used the same picture of Moss on their front page in a smaller column, but in which she looks substantially better than in the Sun's:
Do you think that *shock* the Sun might have altered the photo to make her look worse?!
Still, maybe Kate Moss can count herself lucky that's she not Nikki Sanderson, who's been splashed across the front page of the Daily Spurt (Sport) topless, caught by a paparazzo (possible sic) (To judge by the front page of the Daily Star they are also in there). Then again, seeing as the Daily Mirror also featured Kate topless a few weeks ago while she was on a beach and also while receiving a massage, then had the audacity to print a story saying she was being stalked by a sex pest, perhaps it should be Nikki who's thankful.
Correction to the above: Nikki Sanderson was not topless, it was a typical bit of Sport fakery on the front page which made me think that. Apologies.
Also of note today in the media world is that several newspapers have rather unkindly printed images of a woman in London jumping to her death (I can't claim to have seen them so can only go by this article), which seems rather ghoulish and morbid, to say the least:
The London Evening Standard and the Times have been accused by Samaritans of breaching guidelines on reporting suicide by publishing photographs of a woman leaping to her death from a London hotel.
Samaritans, the charity that supports suicidally depressed people, said it was "appalled" by the coverage of the incident.
The photographs, which included an image of the woman falling to her death, were first published last night in the London Evening Standard's final edition and used today by The Times and the Sun.
The Daily Express avoided using the most horrific image but printed a picture of the woman standing on a ledge outside her bedroom window.
"Samaritans is appalled by newspaper media coverage of a 52-year-old woman who fell to her death in an apparent suicide in South Kensington," the charity said in a statement.
"Samaritans has a long-standing media guidelines policy on factual reporting and these guidelines have been seriously breached.
"The guidelines - drawn up with the help of media professionals - state that press coverage of a suicide should be 'discreet and sensitive'. Reports should also avoid explicit details of method and should in particular 'avoid the use of dramatic photographs or images related to suicide'."
Strange how one of the newspapers (the Sun) which campaigned so heavily for the 90-days detention without trial for terrorist suspects, supposedly so that outrages such as the suicide bombings of July the 7th would not happen again, finds it perfectly OK to feature pictures of a woman jumping to her death. Still, maybe she was an asylum seeking gipsy.
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