"Find a 14 year old, pay him a lot of money, abuse him by giving him fame and front pages exaggerating his health problems, then dump him, spit him out and expose him as a drug crazed loser in 4 years time".

That's my idea of the Editor's instructions when I read today's Front Page "Docs say I must never dance again" about George Sampson and the "exclusive" two page spread inside.

That'll fuck him up if anything will.

but they couldn't survive without sex scandals and especially pedophile panic type scares etc. What else would it's readers read ?.

Having not bought one for 10 years do they still run Page 3 topless girls in schoolgirl uniforms ??

Very good but don't forget the TV show that started it - and this has gone on forever - remember Lena Zavaroni?

When will the media ever learn - and do they actually care?

As long as the circulation goes up, why would tabloids worry? Are you suggesting they should behave responsibly?

The title for this thread reads like a News of The World headline. George Sampson has not been forced into anything. He's been voluntarily dancing in the streets for years before the TV show. He failed to make the finals last year but came back because he was determined to make his dancing pay off. It's all his own choice and his own effort. There is no child abuse involved at all. Such an overused phrase, exploited by the media for effect. I'm surprised that you chose to follow that lead, JK. But you did once work for the News Of The World, so I guess the tabloid spirit still thrives within.

Such a shame.

Never worked for the NOTW Denise (The Sun) and tongue was firmly in my cheek.

But yes, indeed, the intention was to pastiche the tabloids and actually I do believe media deliberately avoids seeing possible consequences.

but indeed :

Sun in Child Abuse Scandal

would be and should be a genuine headline as that is what they have promoted for the past few decades...the consequenses of their slack , immoral, inflammatory and often just plain incorrect writings must have scarred thousands of kids of hapless people who have become the victims of their vicous campaigns at times ( remember the "pedo address outing" campaign that led to an innocent man being murdered.

The Sun stands guilty as charged !!

I thought the "Pedo address outing" was the NotW.

I remember the lynch mob also coming within inches of killing a child when they lobbed a brick through a house window. Not only that, but it turned out to be the wrong house. Then there was the case of the paedeatrition forced to move because the mob mentality didn't know the difference.

And after all that former nonsense, along come Jacqui Smith to warn us of the dangers of "Paedos" lusting over computer animated children. Britain become more insane by the minute.

I'm just amazed anyone here thinks newspaper editors have a scrap of decency in their bodies. All they want are scandals and they'll invent any old crap and abuse anybody to sell papers. the best thing for them is driving somebody to suicide. It's how they get their badge !