>>I think back however on the fact that quasi-paedophilic material has been openly marketed to the world-at-large (and especially in the US) publicly and without any criticism whatsoever for years upon years. Remember "Bugsy Malone"? Jon-Benet Ramsey's cavorting in full makeup etc?....Before the Internet, British tabloids didn't tend to be read outside the UK........
You'd think that having a good deal to do with the exascerbated conditions leading up to Princess Di's death would have caused this to occur. But then I'm probably wrong.<<
the British tabloids make most of us right-minded Brits sick to the stomach with this kind of hypocrisy; they'll hound townshend for this unless there's the most spectacular and convincing proof of his innocence, while two pages further in they've got some topless 16 year-old full page full colour. if it's any consolation, I've been to townshend's studio and spoken with people he employs, and the impression I retain is that he's one of the good guys; I believe what he's reported to have said re the research story. as for diana- absolutely. those same scumbags were running anti-dodi smears only a week earlier and, whatever one might think of royalty/aristocracy/spolit brats generally, the behaviour of the "popular" press in these and other matters makes a good case for the end of this genre of printed "journalism" with it's confusion of fact and opinion. ironically, david sullivan's "sport" line of publications offers a sordid but honest mixture of enquirer-style made-up stories and outrageous soft-porn that is plainly supposed to entertain rather than inform. the problem with other newspapers is that they can't tell the difference anymore and leap headlong into this prurience-chasing while openly encouraging "bad" behaviour in the same pages. fuck 'em.
duncan.
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