Feel obliged to post a link to Graham Linehan's blog post about the shocking story the Scottish Sunday Express ran about the survivors of the Dunblane massacre. He explains things far more eloquently than I ever could, but suffice to say that the paper has impressively managed to publish a story more repulsive, inaccurate and hysterical than any of the Scottish Sun, Daily Record, Mirror or Daily Mail have managed between them. Which takes some doing. And I'm including the time the Daily Record published a picture of my friend's dead brother in a double page spread about heroin deaths in Scotland, without consulting the family and despite the fact the kid had never taken heroin in his life. What concerns me, as it always has when seeing some of the tabloid headlines over the years, is that the editors of these papers obviously feel that their readership will have an interest in, and appreciation of, these types of non-stories.
Read the story here and please sign up to through the various suggested mediums if you feel as strongly about this kind of repugnant, irresponsible and disgusting 'journalism' as I do. Apologies to all actual journalists for using that word to describe it.
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