..to make ourselves feel better.

“I don't mean that everything in the paper is made up — it's not, it's a professional paper. But I was having to judge people, even people like murderers or paedophiles, for example — and these people are not as different from the rest of us as we'd like to think. We demonise people in our society to make ourselves feel better. And what you learn in recovery is that there is bugger all difference.”

www.thisislondon.co.uk/lifestyle/article...-a-closet-liberal.do

90% of paedohysteria is men screaming at their own d****..loudly enough for their wives to hear..

Thanks Blackit,

I'm surprised this post has not elicited more replies and more thought.

A former editor of the Sun has said that there is bugger all difference between paedophiles and the rest of us.

Note: This is not JK saying there is bugger all difference. This is not even a regular guy saying it. This is David Yelland, whose paper, under his editorship, reached a fever pitch of hysteria and strutted and fretted against them as much as any.

Now I know some here like to make a distinction between paedophiles who target pre-pubescent children and some other kind of philes who target post-pubescent legally underage youths. Fair enough, but this is not how Yelland uses the term. He's talking about the lot.

You couldn't get it more from the horse's mouth.

Personally, I don't know that I agree that there is bugger all difference. But I know if I got up and said that on, say, Question Time, or a husting in the upcoming election, or even down the pub there's a danger I'd end up either in hospital or in jail.

I'd say it's at least worthy of note that this guy said what he said.

As a matter of fact, if I were managing editor of the Sun, I'd want to put it on the front page.

Best Wishes,
Jim

The only thing remotely interesting about this ex-drunk is hat he admts that all Murdoch's editors following his polical machinations.

as for saying Murdoch is a clset liberal...what a joke. He's a Goerbels style facist.

Thank Veritas,

Yes. That is relevant too for those interested in the media more widely.

However, for those wanting to explain to paedohysterics that the media demonises people in our society to make us feel good and that there is bugger all difference between us and paedophiles it is helpful to be able to offer as supporting evidence that ex-editor of the Sun David Yelland says so himself.

Of course, you may be right. It may be uninteresting. But in that case you will have better evidence. Can you tell me what it is. Put yourself in the position of your regular grade industry standard paedohysteric in the street. What have you got to offer that will make him sit up and think?

Best Wishes,
Jim

pedohysteria and 'terrorism' are used to demonise a section of the community so the common man has an enemy. It used to be commies once but the fall of the USSR put paid to that.

Yelland is dis-ingenous as he goes no-where near describing how tabloids have taken upon themselves the power that the Nazis weilded when they gained cotrol of the media before WW2.

They ranged beeen the great financial capitalist Jewish conspiracy to the Jewish contolled communist/socialist plot.

In other words they wanted it both ways but the media in the US and UK is now in that place and conrol the thoughts of govenment and influence government policy.

It's a simple game played by the far right always..tell a bit of a story to each group and they will believe it and when the mob gets together they are angry and don't really know why. The US corporate media is doing it with Obama.

Murdoch does it well by owning seperate bits of the media that cover all sections of society so he can tell each group lies that will re-inforce their prejudices.

None of this would matter if politicians had guts but they are craven cowards or like Nu Labour jumed into bed with the tabloids.

Yelland was part of a much bigger horror than he let's on. No wonder he drank..he is probably intelligent and understands what he has done. Never forget..these lies end up with 100,000 dead Iraqi children blown to pieces and 5 million refugees.

How can they lose ?...then they can rant on that the refugees are coming to take your jobs and homes.

(I wasn't having a go at you bringing the piece to our attention !)

Thanks Veritas,

I like your analysis. I think it's substantially correct. I just wonder how conscious Yelland was of what he was doing? Is it possible he internalised a lot of it in the way he described for Editors?

You are pretty much spot on. Media corporations _do_ have more power than government.

Best Wishes,
Jim