The banality of evil part 2.
How dare he?! That's our job!Meanwhile, the Sun is so flush with cash thanks to its witch-hunt against social workers (which today agony aunt Deidre Saunders describes as a "perilous" job, and that they shouldn't be tarred with the same brush) that it's bought another headstone, this time with Baby P's full name in gold lettering, having previously bought the old memorial slab which featured in so many photographs of the tributes left to him, without it being made clear that a newspaper was attempting a land grab on his memory. As Anorak suggests, it's almost as if the newspaper wants to own him personally - we brought the fury, he's ours. Get your tanks off our goddamn lawn.
Labels: abuses by tabloids, Baby P, banality of evil, Daily Mail-watch, Lord Laming, moral panics, Scum-watch, social services, social workers, Sun-watch
| Permalink
Very telling that they're still calling him Baby P: their primary interest in him is as a recognisable brand name.
(That Sun headstone is a travesty: "Also known as Baby P" - they might as well put "Celebrity corpse".)
Posted by
Tom Freeman |
Wednesday, August 12, 2009 11:45:00 PM