Irish Daily Star and pictures of Kate

[Sunny]

Whatever...

Good answer. You should be getting ready for bed. It's nearly 7pm.

 

[Bronte]

Rosanna wont be too happy. She wanted those headlines.

Funnily enough I thought the same. Hubby showed me the photos last week and I didn't recognise her at all, he asked me who it was and I'd no idea.

 

[MrMan]

I can't help but feel sory for William and Kate, such a lovely couple. I think this rag paper were scum for publishing those pictures, no one has the right to invade the privacy of another human being, its disgusting what this newspaper did.

It's kind of funny really; people calling the paper scum, it's readers garbage, yet its the paper that gets blamed for sensationalism.

 

[MrMan]

William's mom Diana was hounded by paparazzi and she was being pursued by them when she met her tragic death. Now William's wife is being hounded by paparazzi who have taken photographs of her on private grounds 1/2 kilometer from the public road. If he has daughters are they also to be subjected to such hounding?

All the Irish Daily star editor Michael O' Kane can do is to trivialise the matter by twittering on about "pics" and "celebs".

You can hardly be hounded from a 1/2 km away.

 

[MrMan]

You can't have a garbage newspaper without garbage readers.

Newspapers are aimed at different demographics. If someone reads The Star, in doesn't make them inferior in morality or intellect to someone who reads a broadsheet.

 

[DB74]

Newspapers are aimed at different demographics. If someone reads The Star, in doesn't make them inferior in morality or intellect to someone who reads a broadsheet.

Well if anyone bought the Daily Star to look at the pictures then I would have to question their intelligence, given that the pics were freely available on the great inter-web!

 

[dereko1969]

I've never met them so I can't say that.
I don't read the paper although I understand it is nominally Irish with the O'Reillys having a slice.

The people concerned have embraced the "celeb cult" nonsense. That comes with a price, a downside. I don't see how they or their PRs, mammies and daddies can complain, because after all, as it says in Matthew 26:52 "... for all they that take the sword shall perish with the sword".

Yer man's grandma is the boss of the Church that uses that book so as far as I am concerned they were fore-warned and should have been fore-armed.

Have you ever read it? It's totally Irish unlike the other tabloids that have 1 or 2 Irish stories tacked on.

 

[MrMan]

Well if anyone bought the Daily Star to look at the pictures then I would have to question their intelligence, given that the pics were freely available on the great inter-web!

I'd question their taste in women.

 

[orka]

Newspapers are aimed at different demographics. If someone reads The Star, in doesn't make them inferior in morality or intellect to someone who reads a broadsheet.

Maybe not inferior in morality (how to define/measure...) but very likely inferior in intellect - for the exact reason you state - they are aimed at different demographics.

 

[mathepac]

Have you ever read it? ...

I did once and like stepping in dog poo, there was nothing about the experience that made me want to repeat it.

... It's totally Irish unlike the other tabloids that have 1 or 2 Irish stories tacked on.

I see, so publishing pictures of a topless minor British Royal on her holliers in France qualifies as some of this "totally Irish" content does it?

Forgive me if I point out that you have like totally failed to convince me dude.

 

[liaconn]

Totally blown out of proportion, bordering on hysteria,a few fuzzy long lens snaps of what can readily be seen on any beach in the Canaries 365 days of the year and a paper is threatened with closure.

Seriously those offended need to get out a bit more,God forbid they ever stumble onto the interweb thingy.I genuinely fear they will physically explode with moral outrage if left unsupervised to surf for 10 minutes.

But she was not on a beach in the Canaries, fully aware that she was in publice view.

What people are objecting to is the fact that Kate Middleton was on private property and some scummy photographer used a long lens to take a picture of her topless which has now been published in various publications. This is not about being 'uninhibited' and 'open minded'. It's about recognising someone's right to privacy and to not be photographed topless in a private place without their consent.

 

[elefantfresh]

I wonder what the sales of The Star were on the day the pictures ran compared to any other day

 

[dereko1969]

I did once and like stepping in dog poo, there was nothing about the experience that made me want to repeat it.
I see, so publishing pictures of a topless minor British Royal on her holliers in France qualifies as some of this "totally Irish" content does it?

Forgive me if I point out that you have like totally failed to convince me dude.

You stated it was nominally Irish, I stated having read it on a few occasions (barber shops mostly, it wouldn't be a paper I'd buy) that it is mostly Irish content.

By the way totally Irish to any sane person does not mean only having Irish content. If you were going by that yardstick then none of our papers are Irish.

The fact that they published these photos is neither here nor there in the context of whether the paper is Irish or not.

 

[MrMan]

I did once and like stepping in dog poo, there was nothing about the experience that made me want to repeat it.
I see, so publishing pictures of a topless minor British Royal on her holliers in France qualifies as some of this "totally Irish" content does it?

Forgive me if I point out that you have like totally failed to convince me dude.

She is famous, and just like most other famous people that appear in all of the papers, she isn't Irish, so what difference does that make?

 

[MrMan]

Maybe not inferior in morality (how to define/measure...) but very likely inferior in intellect - for the exact reason you state - they are aimed at different demographics.

So if I read the Star and you read the Irish Times, you would assume that you have a superior intellect than me?

 

[Kine]

Lets call a spade a spade - the pictures weren't great to look at. She needs a few more hot dinners!

Now, Ms. Davison's on the other hand...

 

[mathepac]

... I stated having read it on a few occasions (barber shops mostly, it wouldn't be a paper I'd buy) that it is mostly Irish content. ...

I'm sorry but I can't seem to find any of that purported content of yours posted in this thread.

... By the way totally Irish to any sane person does not mean only having Irish content. If you were going by that yardstick then none of our papers are Irish. ...

But I'm not the one defining what "totally Irish" is, you are with this comment - "It's totally Irish unlike the other tabloids that have 1 or 2 Irish stories tacked on."So following your logic, the more Irish content a tabloid features the more Irish it is. Therefore, by your own definition, to be "totally Irish" it must only feature Irish content otherwise it is not "totally Irish".

Nominally Irish means it features the word "Irish" in its masthead but is owned by an English pay-per-view TV pornographer and dirty magazine publisher, Mick Desmond, and O'Reilly's INM

... The fact that they published these photos is neither here nor there in the context of whether the paper is Irish or not.

You have this This post will be deleted if not edited to remove bad language-about-face IMHO; if the paper was not nominally Irish, they would not have published the pictures.

 

[orka]

So if I read the Star and you read the Irish Times, you would assume that you have a superior intellect than me?

If you read the Star and I read the Irish Times, it is more likely than not that I have a superior intellect to you. But it is obviously not the case that every single Irish Times reader is more intelligent than every single Star reader.

There are various studies looking at IQ by social class (easily found on t'internet and there seems to be little dispute about the findings/general concept) - one showed that the highest social class had an average IQ of 115, compared with the overall average of 100 and an average of 90 in the lowest social class (the lack of symmetry caused by there being a greater chance of someone of higher intelligence being in the lowest social class (through lack of opportunity or choice) than of someone of lower intelligence being in the highest social class).

Tabloids are more likely to be read by lower social classes therefore tabloid readers are more likely to have a lower IQ. But again, these are all averages - you can't form a judgement about a single person based on what they read...

 

[ajapale]

If it was a Sweedish Princess I dont think the English tabloids would have hesitated to publish.

 

[truthseeker]

But she was not on a beach in the Canaries, fully aware that she was in publice view.

What people are objecting to is the fact that Kate Middleton was on private property and some scummy photographer used a long lens to take a picture of her topless which has now been published in various publications. This is not about being 'uninhibited' and 'open minded'. It's about recognising someone's right to privacy and to not be photographed topless in a private place without their consent.

I dont understand how this happened at all.

Yes, she was in a private place, but she is a figure in the public eye, a member of the british royal family, and fully aware that scummy photographers exist. So, when in a private place, if its within sight of a public road (and by sight, I mean, long lens sight), then why on earth did she go topless! In her position, I wouldnt have done it.

I think it was Princess Anne who said before, people allow themselves to be photographed, there are enough private estates and residences available to the royal family, if you do not wish to be photographed in your private time you do not have to be.

It is not her fault that there exists a scummy photographer - but it is certainly her fault that she was dumb enough to go topless on a pool terrace where she could be seen and photographed from a public road.