Can anyone work out why the Daily Mail felt it necessary to shine the spotlight on this WPC???

[sp1814]

Is this just the DM being a bit nasty? Or is there a genuine public interest angle on this story:

http://www.dailymail....WPC-used-PC-beat.html

Or perhaps it's just a slow news day, so to fill their pages, they feel at liberty taking a personal story and splashing it so that this police officer can be gossiped about by a wider audience?

[Sqad]

LOL.......a topic always good for a laugh.

[wolf63]

She actually looks good in the picture of her as a woman.

It is bad if the newspapers are reduced to poking around in other people's life's to fill their papers.

[sp1814]

wolf63

I agree with you there...if I hadn't known, I would've assumed it was a fairly attractively WPC.

Which makes me think...the DM sent a photographer to get some shots!

It just seems a bit...dunno...out of order.

[McMouse]

There's a few on CB who appear to be trans-species let alone gender.

[R1Geezer]

well guess they are pointing out that attention seeking deviants even inhabit the police force. Probably scratching around like all the press do in the silly season.

[Sqad]

Look boys.....you go in to the Police force as P.C Gerald and come out as W.P.C Geraldine...........surely a smile lads?

[daffy654]

Why do many male to female transsexuals fail in the make-up department. She really needs to learn how to apply blusher properly.

and yes... this is the DM being a bit nasty, there is no public interest story here.

[237SJ]

Typical nasty, spiteful Daily Mail. The story serves no public interest whatsoever

[Sqad]

2376J

>>>> public interest<<<<<

Varies from person to person, what may interest me may not interest you and vice versa. The newspaper has to appeal to all tastes and interests.

[237SJ]

I don`t mean public interest as in what interests the public, I mean in that the public need to know for legal reasons, their own safety etc

[Sqad]

237SJ
If that were the case, then the papers would be one or two pages thick.

[237SJ]

Well the Times, Independent and others manage to be quite thick without victimising people in such a way

[jno]

interesting that most of the comments on the story itself are asking the same question as you, sp1814. The Mail may have misjudged its public a bit on this occasion.

[Sqad]

237SJ

You have changed tract.

<<<I don`t mean public interest as in what interests the public, I mean in that the public need to know for legal reasons, their own safety etc>>>

Are you now saying that the papers that you have mentioned are " really printing stories which we need for legal reasons?" and nothing else?

[anotheoldgit]

Yet another anti Daily Mailer posts two successive Daly Mail stories.

Have I managed to convert them?

[sp1814]

anotheoldgit

The Daily Mail is a great place to post things to wind people up. Sometimes when they run a story along the lines of "Another Travellers' Site Blights Beautiful Suffolk", I like to post - "I wish there were more of them...better a traveller's site than another awful redbrick housing estate".

You ought to see how steamed up people get...it's BEYOND hilarious.

I invite everyone to create a user profile and then simply take the opposite view to the the run of posts on any controversial subject.

It's better than vaudeville.

[Sqad]

SP1814...

Nothing at all to answer my question.

[sp1814]

Sqad

I'll answer - no...newspapers should be free to publish stories which are both of interest to the public and in the public interest (the two need not be the same thing)...but this story (to me) seems to be mere titilation with no real point. Someone has had a sex change...so what?

I mean, it's at the same level as a newspaper reporting that a traffic warden has had a breast augmentation operation. It's throwing a public spotlight on to something that we have no business knowing. It's not as if this police officer is standing for public office, or is a celebrity.

It strikes me as being just a little wrong. Someone contacts the Mail, and the Mail sends a photographer to take a couple of shots, then splashes it over the paper and the Internet.

For what purpose?

[sandyRoe]

By publishing this story they're showing acceptance of all the diversity we find in our society.
Well done, Daily Mail, I say.

[Sqad]

sp1814.......<<<seems to be mere titilation with no real point.<<<

I disagree..... titillation is important to some people, including me and functions as a mood raiser.

I take your point.........it being a personal one.