http://blog.randhobart.org.uk/2009/03/18/it-is-a-vicious-paper/ Between outraged ranting and mediocre mundanity is the time I'm allowed... Sat, 24 Apr 2010 20:25:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://blog.randhobart.org.uk/2009/03/18/it-is-a-vicious-paper/comment-page-1/#comment-7 Paying for it « Paperhouse Tue, 31 Mar 2009 15:19:24 +0000 http://blog.randhobart.org.uk/?p=2605#comment-7 [...] Paying for it 2009 March 31 tags: Jacquie Smith, journalism, media, MP's expenses, newspapers, Online, pornography by Sarah The headlines and comment pages are still full of Mr Smith’s misjudged evening in. If it was purely outrage over a public servant playing the expenses system, then Jacqui Smith’s demise should have been confirmed by the second home. But the home secretary’s husband expensed porn, and porn is embarrassing and discrediting. When we’re watching the headlines rather than writing them, it’s always fun to point to the other business interests of the Express’s parent company. “Dirty Desmond floated up to his current ‘status’ on a sea of pornographic effluent”, says this blogger. [...] [...] Paying for it 2009 March 31 tags: Jacquie Smith, journalism, media, MP’s expenses, newspapers, Online, pornography by Sarah The headlines and comment pages are still full of Mr Smith’s misjudged evening in. If it was purely outrage over a public servant playing the expenses system, then Jacqui Smith’s demise should have been confirmed by the second home. But the home secretary’s husband expensed porn, and porn is embarrassing and discrediting. When we’re watching the headlines rather than writing them, it’s always fun to point to the other business interests of the Express’s parent company. “Dirty Desmond floated up to his current ‘status’ on a sea of pornographic effluent”, says this blogger. [...]

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