http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... z1uUeSp5m9
Why? Just why? Surely the Mail doesn't want someone to attack her?

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Could they be prosecuted for incitement if she were attacked?

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Soon, if we are not prudent, millions of people will be watching each other starve to death through expensive television sets. Nye Bevan

I think it's actually 'The Sun' which is really pushing this story and the Mail is just copying and pasting the stories from 'The Sun's' website.

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The race to the bottom is rarely a walkover.

There was a documentary on the BBC a few years back about people who bare an unfortunate resemblence to perpetrators of well documented crimes.

These innocent people found it hard to go shopping, meet friends, have relationships and in some cases even suffered verbal abuse, nasty rumours or even had to move house because local people confused them with criminals they had seen in the national papers.

Editors should consider these things before printing numerous photos of people convicted of particularly sensetive or sensationaly reported crimes.

But they don't.

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They're considering how much they'll make from splashing on stuff like this, and how much they'll lose in legal fees. That's the bottom line. The feelings of the person they target is just something to be glibly glossed over if they ever get hauled before an enquiry, years, sometimes decades down the line. If in doubt, solemnly claim public interest while consulting with your £2k an hour barrister.

Stories like this are broken by corrupt prison officials. Just look at some of the NOTW arrests. MOD, HMP, Police, all compromised for cash by grubby tabloid hacks. What they've picked up on so far is the tip of the iceberg, but many of these people will be offered deals in case they implicate more senior staff.

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"...now, with a most inhuman cruelty, they who have put out the people’s eyes, reproach them of their blindness..."

I saw a programme about women believed to be Maxine Carr. The police visited one particularly odious persecutor and told him the woman he claimed was Carr wasn't. His response was that of course she wasn't, because she'd had her identity changed and his victim was still the former Carr so he would carry on with hsi campaign.

The papers do seem to be very sexist in the way in which they try and hound and expose female ex-offenders more than male ex offenders, as well as publishing photos of Matthews they also seem to go after Tracie Andrews and Maxine Carr. I wonder why they don't give the same attention to people like Lee Hughes who has been allowed to return to being a well paid professional footballer after serving time for killing some one whilst drink driving?

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I dare say some other Mailwatchers could comment on this with a little more knowledge and authority, but I think it's to do with the image of women in the tabloid media as being either the Virgin Mary or Whore of Babylon. They're supposed to be mothers, sweet, chaste*, angelic, so when they fall (more Biblical imagery), they fall twice as far.

This is nothing new. Back in Victorian times, many men had a hard time getting their heads around the contradictions in behaviour expected of women. On the one hand (and this is nothing to do with social class) they were supposed to be these sweet and innocent creatures who'd faint if you whispered the word "ankle" several streets away. On the other, they were all all raging lunatic nymphomaniacs who'd be stripping naked, guzzling gin, and screaming "Fuck me on the grand piano like the whore that I am!" if given half an inch.

Aside from the chav-bashing and slurs about her appearance, a lot of the opprobrium heaped upon Karen Matthews was because she arranged the kidnap of her own kid. As betrayal of the parent/child bond goes, that's pretty heavy. Still doesn't justify the post-release witch-hunt though (apart from in the eyes of those who believe no punishment would ever be enough for her).

*Yes, I'm aware of the massive contradiction here.

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Fifteen seconds... you can't breathe.

Twenty seconds... you give up and turn off the Jeremy Vine show.

Has anyone sent this to a certain Inquiry?

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Reclaiming "methinks" for the nation

Latest blog post - 2011 - a review (updated 07/10)

A certain inquiry sort of covered this (at, least a precedent) this afternoon within the context of Wade's "entirely inadvertent" incitement on the Paulsgrove Estate.

So, no. They never learn. Or rather they never unlearn the lesson that ensures that they sell newspapers for the enrichment or themselves, their proprietors and their shareholders regardless of public order or the wider consequences.

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Brigate di Transizione

10/10

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I see that her face has since been pixellated in the story. But not her hairstyle.
Time for another go.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... z1w4Ckcfdu
No mention of a benefits probe in the article.

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26 Mailites don't do irony.

actually John...thats 4