Monday 1 February 2010

Sunspots: Lacey Green



How inane can a newspaper get? What are the news values that allow this to be published under the banner of news?

How the story should have read: "Someone you've never heard of went somewhere you've never heard of, because she's a moron."

Normally the sun is bad enough with its blend of titillation, celebrity stories and brief summations of complex news, but this item really takes the proverbial digestive. No-one but Lacey Green, 24, from Hicksville, Wisconsin cares about this.

Now I appreciate that The Sun has a certain brief, to make any story readable by an eight year old, but this is just daft. In tomorrows paper, "Tom McCarthy, 52, from Brighton did a shit that lasted nearly half an hour."

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