Anyone been following this story? The Scottish edition of the Sunday Express ran a shock-horror story (which has since been pulled from their website) about the surviving children from the Dunblane massacre, now in their late teens, boasting on the internet about doing things like - I hope you're sitting down, gentle WSCers - getting drunk, getting into fights and having sex.
The PCC are investigating it, and rightly so. What the hell were they thinking?
Fortunately, so that we can all see just how ill-judged the original piece was, someone has preserved it (minus incriminating names). Here it is.
Here's the bit that gets me:
What this inadvertently tells you is that someone at the Express has been detailed, for the last 12 months or so, with tracking the survivors down on social networking sites and waiting till they turn 18.
The story "teenagers in 'doing stuff that teenagers do' shock" was clearly planned a long time ago, and wasn't just the work of some irresponsible hack on the night shift.
The PCC are investigating it, and rightly so. What the hell were they thinking?
Fortunately, so that we can all see just how ill-judged the original piece was, someone has preserved it (minus incriminating names). Here it is.
Here's the bit that gets me:
Indeed, no photographs of any of the children have been seen in more than a decade, and the social network sites give the first insight into how their lives have progressed.
The story "teenagers in 'doing stuff that teenagers do' shock" was clearly planned a long time ago, and wasn't just the work of some irresponsible hack on the night shift.
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