[English Bob]

A massive controversy has emerged today...especially on twitter! Some stupid bint called Jan Moir has written an extremely homophobic article in the Daily Mail originally entitled 'Why there was nothing natural about Stephen Gately's Death'. The title of the article quickly changed to a less offensive one, but the content remained the same.

The article is here: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/artic ... ath--.html

It truly is a disgusting article, and apparently the Press Complaints Commission website is struggling to cope with all the complaints! Although sadly most complaints have been met with responses of "You aren't a member of Gately's family, therefore your complaint is invalid". Yay, what a decent press regulating body we have.

Stephen Fry has been the main organiser of outrage on twitter: http://twitter.com/stephenfry

Charlie Brooker has already written a brilliant response for the Guardian entitled: "Why there was nothing 'human' about Jan Moir's column on the death of Stephen Gately" See it here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree ... y-jan-moir

I detest the Daily Mail anyway, but when they print articles like this...it truly beggars belief.


EDIT: Arse, I just spotted people discussing this in another thread....it took me a long time to type all this y'know!

[Johnny 1989]

The Mail is a truly hateful paper, every reader I see on the tube is usually white, between 50-60 & looks at all the "ruddy foreigners" with contempt. Not one of them would ever give up a seat for a pregnant woman because they themselves are "old".

Rather than TheLondonPaper closing down they should have closed down the Heil, hateful load of shite.

[MK Chris]

TheLondonPaper was a Murdoch publication though, so that was likely a propaganda tool too.

[Johnny 1989]

TheLondonPaper was a Murdoch publication though, so that was likely a propaganda tool too.

Oh yeah that's a point, the Heil is still owned by bigger arseholes

[SAV1OUR]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8419050.stm

I was abroad when this happened, couldn't help thinking at the time that as a result of that Moir woman's despicable article the Heil had recieved a damn good kick in the bollocks - not just for this - but the Sachsgate saga a year before. Hopefully the biased PCC will do this justice.