You couldn't make it up!
Though sometimes you suspect that The Sun does.
Yet again, Rebekah Wade climbs onto her moral high horse...and canters straight into the nearest wall. The main headline in today's Sun is 'Ban Vile Paedo Book: Outrage as Amazon best seller backs sex beasts' (the story is refers to is here) making a huge deal out of the fact that Amazon stocks a book that doesn't scream 'all paedophiles are evil monsters who should be shot' on every page.
Now, The Sun attempts to call the book a 'best seller', based on the fact that someone may have bought a copy recently, meaning it ranks highly in Amazon's sales charts, failing to understand that just one or two sales of a book can quickly lift it great distances in Amazon's charts because of the low sales generated by most books over short term periods. This is a book that has probably sold no more than a handful of copies that The Sun has suddenly promoted to the level of a great moral threat.
What I fail to understand is why The Sun has plastered this all over its front page. Even if we assume that this book is a great moral threat, how does giving it what is effectively thousands of pounds worth of free advertising help to prevent it from reaching the hands of paedophiles, supposedly The Sun's aim here? The article, both online and in the paper itself, gives the name of the book, the author's name and a screen grab of the Amazon page for the book itself. Now, even if you do reside on Planet Wade where no paedophile takes The Sun on a regular basis, surely plastering a huge headline about an 'evil paedo book' on the front cover, and then giving details of what it is, where to get it, and how much it will cost inside is not really making it hard for them to get hold of it.
I'm really at a loss as to why The Sun has gone so big on this story - it's not a new book (the Amazon page gives it a publication date of March 2000) and I can't remember hearing this book cited as an influence in any recent articles or events, so is it just a really slow news day? Or, is this just a symptom of some bad blood between News International and Amazon that I'm not aware of?
(and just to clarify before someone wilfully grabs the wrong end of the stick and accuses me of being 'objectively pro-paedophile' or similar, I'd like to go record as saying that paedophilia is wrong. I haven't linked to the Amazon page because the book does sound pretty distasteful and I think The Sun's given it enough free publicity already)
Yet again, Rebekah Wade climbs onto her moral high horse...and canters straight into the nearest wall. The main headline in today's Sun is 'Ban Vile Paedo Book: Outrage as Amazon best seller backs sex beasts' (the story is refers to is here) making a huge deal out of the fact that Amazon stocks a book that doesn't scream 'all paedophiles are evil monsters who should be shot' on every page.
Now, The Sun attempts to call the book a 'best seller', based on the fact that someone may have bought a copy recently, meaning it ranks highly in Amazon's sales charts, failing to understand that just one or two sales of a book can quickly lift it great distances in Amazon's charts because of the low sales generated by most books over short term periods. This is a book that has probably sold no more than a handful of copies that The Sun has suddenly promoted to the level of a great moral threat.
What I fail to understand is why The Sun has plastered this all over its front page. Even if we assume that this book is a great moral threat, how does giving it what is effectively thousands of pounds worth of free advertising help to prevent it from reaching the hands of paedophiles, supposedly The Sun's aim here? The article, both online and in the paper itself, gives the name of the book, the author's name and a screen grab of the Amazon page for the book itself. Now, even if you do reside on Planet Wade where no paedophile takes The Sun on a regular basis, surely plastering a huge headline about an 'evil paedo book' on the front cover, and then giving details of what it is, where to get it, and how much it will cost inside is not really making it hard for them to get hold of it.
I'm really at a loss as to why The Sun has gone so big on this story - it's not a new book (the Amazon page gives it a publication date of March 2000) and I can't remember hearing this book cited as an influence in any recent articles or events, so is it just a really slow news day? Or, is this just a symptom of some bad blood between News International and Amazon that I'm not aware of?
(and just to clarify before someone wilfully grabs the wrong end of the stick and accuses me of being 'objectively pro-paedophile' or similar, I'd like to go record as saying that paedophilia is wrong. I haven't linked to the Amazon page because the book does sound pretty distasteful and I think The Sun's given it enough free publicity already)
Nick got away with this at 1:34 PM
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