Should Newspapers That Who Crusade Against Online Pornography And The Danger To Children Do This?

[sp1814]

It's not so much the story (even thought it have bugger all newsworthy content), but it's the pixellated image and even more bizarrely...

It prints the name of the porn website, so that any child reading the paper, can go and have a look at the x-rated conted!!!

Is this a typical example of the hypocrisy of the right wing brigade...?

Or a one off mistake made by a newspaper with great integrity?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2487827/Jenn-Tisdale-films-sex-scenes-X-rated-porn-star-James-Deen-open-casting-call.html

[Old_Geezer]

Thanks for the tip sp

[Buenchico]

>>>a newspaper with great integrity
I can't believe that you even considered that as a possibility, Sp1814!

I simply can't see where the 'news' is in the story:
Adult-movie star advertises for women to perform with him. Woman freely chooses to do so, gets well paid for it and proudly tells her story to a well-respected website. Then the Mail nicks the story and claims that it's 'news'. Why?

[Zacs-Master]

The DM hypocritical.....
Surely not!

[naomi24]

//Is this a typical example of the hypocrisy of the right wing brigade...?

Or a one off mistake made by a newspaper with great integrity? //

Neither. That's an insult to discerning right wingers - and where the newspaper is concerned, a case of mistaken identity.

[jno]

that's rather bizarre, isn't it. Woman makes sex film isn't exactly the news story of the year, but that is massively two-faced of the Mail, which normally won't even print rude words.

I suppose it's soemthing that they didn't actually make a clickable link of it.

[sp1814]

Ha ha..Old_Geezer. My pleasure.

Oh. And just in case anyone subsequently accuses me of being a secret Daily Mail reader, I have toq knowledge the source of the story: The Media Blog. It was they who picked up on the hypocrisy. Not me!

http://www.themediablog.co.uk/the-media-blog/2013/11/daily-mail-promotes-hardcore-porn.html

[jno]

how do you mean, mistaken identity, naomi?

[sandyRoe]

Hardly a mistake. They're out to tittivate.

[naomi24]

'A newspaper with great integrity'.

[naomi24]

^^ That was to jno.

[jno]

oh, I see, thanks, naomi. It is undoubtedly a right-wing newspaper, though. And this is I think a genuine conflict in recent right-wing philosopy - between conservatives and libertarians.

One the one hand, a wish not to promote things like porn that are perceived to threaten family life and degrade women. On the other, your right to make money where you can and have the greatest possible personal freedom.

Usually, conservatives espouse either one view or the other; but the Mail is trying to have it both ways here,a dn it looks bad.

[naomi24]

//It is undoubtedly a right-wing newspaper//

... and one with which many prefer not to be associated.

[jno]

I suspect the growth in titillation has more to do with the growth of its website internationally. It needs to balance its stories about minor UK celebs with more foreign material, especially from the USA, where lots of odd things happen. This one doesn't seem odd enough to me to be worth the space, but presumably some editor decided otherwise.

Nonetheless, including the name of the website seems like a mistake to me. (Surely its readers are bright enough to find it themselves if they want to?)

[sp1814]

jno

The website name is genuine.

I checked.

[FredPuli43]

Very helpful of the Daily Mail to show readers of its Femail section what sexual intercourse, in one position anyway, looks like. I am confident that they had no idea before!

[joko]

i understand the point - that perhaps they shouldnt write out the full address ... but kids don't need an address to find porn

they can literally type the word porn into a box and be taken to a list of many sites - so i doubt this has done any real harm

[sp1814]

joke

Absolutely...but a family newspaper - especially one who is campaigning against the ease at which children an access porn online, shouldn't actually be advertising web addresses to simplify the process?

It's like the police fighting drugs, and then printing the names of local cannabis dealers on the information boards in their waiting rooms.

[jno]

good man, sp1814, you go there so we don't have to.

And spot on about the strangeness of campaigning against porn by giving your readers young and old the names of a website not to go to.