Offensive Images should be Banned!
I’ve considered writing this for a little while now but the horrible events over the last few weeks have brought this back into my mind.
The horrible events are of course the appalling daylight murder of the young father of one Lee Rigby, the active Soldier who was going about his daily business. I am not here to go over what happened as I’m sure we’ve all seen the news and followed it on Twitter.
My problem is the various newspapers printing their papers with the front covered in images of the two suspected murders covered in blood and holding weapons. I know these images are available online, or all over the news but these are things I as a parent of young children cannot control, at this stage, I won’t have the news on while the girls are around and luckily they are too young to use the computer.
However I can’t control the printed media, they plaster every paper with these images and the papers are normally the first thing you see in the shop and they are always at eye level. I can understand the photos being printed on the inside but is it needed to be on the front?
A while ago there was a campaign for ‘Lad’ magazines to be covered over as the near naked women on the front were offensive, this is fair enough but these front covers offended me much more than a near naked man or woman could ever do. May be we should start a campaign to get them to stop the offensive front pages.
