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Vital Story in National Interest - 6th former cops off with bird, keeps pants

 
 
We're The Great Old Ones Now
11:34 / 09.06.03
Heir and the G-string.

Is there any reason on God's Earth why this needs to be on the front page of a national newspaper? If this triggers another round of 'Is the Press too intrusive?', will I feel able to dust off my Index card and fight the good fight, or will I feel that a world where R. Wade and pals end up in the slammer would be far more enjoyable?

Will you?
 
 
Kit-Cat Club
11:48 / 09.06.03
Pink lace g-string? Deplorable lapse in taste, if you ask me.

I think there's probably grounds for an argument that the entire Sun is not 'in the national interest' (i.e. Murdoch press, undue influence on politics, blah blah).
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
11:52 / 09.06.03
Don't even get me started...
I already think Ms Wade should be banged up for incitement to violence ANYWAY... but in MY world "bad journalism" would be for her what "bad accountancy" was to Al Capone...
 
 
We're The Great Old Ones Now
12:00 / 09.06.03
Hmm... yeah, but that's the point, isn't it? That's why we have the concept of Free Speech - because my definition of what is odious and biased reporting and that of your average Sun-reader differ, and they might feel that campaigning against the war was 'not in the national interest'.

So we say 'you can express whatever view you like'.

But this is just a rather icky piece of gossip - isn't it? - so if the Free Speech vs. Privacy row starts again, where do I stand? I have to say I think this kind of drivel damages the Free Speech case - not the argument, but the credibility.

Ideally, this kind of thing would come under the heading of 'responsible journalism' and wouldn't get printed. But it sells papers, so...

(I love how they've put a little hotline in for the girl to call...)
 
 
Bear
12:08 / 09.06.03
Why is he is the paper all of a sudden, I thought it was the other ones birthday?
My conspiracy senses are tingling, they seem to have been trying to show how straight he is for the past few weeks.
 
 
Our Lady of The Two Towers
12:18 / 09.06.03
How do they know they weren't his?

But, a week after the 'Posh and Becks kidnap' case turned out to be an illusion in the minds of the reporter and his informant it's clear that Ms. Wade is just keeping up that fine Sun tradition of inventing stories were none exist.
 
 
No star here laces
12:23 / 09.06.03
Am I wrong to find Rebekah Wade sexy?
 
 
We're The Great Old Ones Now
12:29 / 09.06.03
Hah. I wondered whether they might be his, too - but actually, if they were, that would be an even worse violation of privacy. Not that I wouldn't like him to reveal himself a transvestite in the national Press. Bloody fantastic moment, that would be.
 
 
Tryphena Absent
12:37 / 09.06.03
Well I think it's great that the country knows that the third in line is getting off with girls who wear pink g-strings. The great English tradition of the second Royal child partying like a bitch is continuing- all hail England, nation of tearaway youth and their older siblings.
 
 
Ariadne
12:45 / 09.06.03
Cynicism radar here -- if you knew (and he must have known) that there was going to be an official photo of your room, wouldn't you have tidied away anything embarrassing first? Even if he didn't know about the photo it seems improbable that the g-string was just sitting there on a chair. So .... either the paper's making it up or Harry's decided to do a bit of image-management himself.
 
 
We're The Great Old Ones Now
12:47 / 09.06.03
Well, it's possible. On the other hand, if the paper didn't know, it changes nothing (though Buck House might not object so much.) If the paper did know, of course, they're a bunch of spineless buttpuppies and they should be ashamed. Again.
 
 
videodrome
13:33 / 09.06.03
An attractive blonde photographer named Kirsty Wigglesworth?

What a bloody great paper! Bloody great country!
 
 
Jack Fear
13:57 / 09.06.03
An attractive blonde photographer named Kirsty Wigglesworth?



who is, is she not, a dead ringer for Cate Blanchett:



Eerie, no?
 
 
Char Aina
14:01 / 09.06.03
no.

sorry.
 
 
Whisky Priestess
14:36 / 09.06.03
Looks more like the increasingly raddled U. Jonsson to me ...
 
 
Tryphena Absent
14:45 / 09.06.03
Kirsty clearly rides horses- it shines from that healthy skin, careful make up, casual clothing and the lack of earrings. Maybe it's just the smile but that is a woman who rides.
 
 
Regrettable Juvenilia
14:59 / 09.06.03
Fear, you have defiled the holy name of Blanchett. That's a staggering crime even by your standards, and you can expect to wake up with a horse's head in your bed one morning in the very near future. You will also be inexplicably dressed as a polo player.
 
  
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