Tuesday, September 23, 2008

*Sputter*


What the fuck is wrong with the News Limited papers?

Some WalMart employee in the US stole a picture of Britney Spears' younger sister Jamie Lynn Spears breastfeeding her baby daughter.

How on earth someone hears 'breastfeeding' and thinks "PORN STORM!!!!" is just totally beyond my comprehension. I believe it was The Sun in the UK that came up with the headline, but fellow Murdoch News Limited rags in Australia decided to appropriate it wholesale. To the 'journalists', sub-editors and editors at News Limited who had anything to do with okaying that 'article' for display on your websites- you are a despicable bunch of twisted perverts and should be ashamed of yourselves.

The good news here is that despite being a poor role model for teenage girls in the US by not practicing safe sex, Jamie Lynn is at least setting a good example to her multitude of pregnant teenage peers by breastfeeding, in a country with one of the poorest rates of breastfeeding in the world. Wouldn't that be a better focus for a news item?

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