Sunday Express "expose" Dunblane survivors.

[Cam-E]

There's a petition online now to force the Sunday Express to apologise for the nature of their article on the Dunblane survivors:

"The article - whose groundless message of outrage appeared to be focused on the normal teenage behaviour of these young people - represented a gross intrusion into their privacy. The publication of the victims' details and photographs cannot justifiably be said to be in the public interest, and the sensationalist tone was in extremely poor taste.

We demand a swift and proportionate response to the widespread disgust caused by this article, beginning with a front page apology.

We would also like to see appropriate disciplinary action taken against Paula Murray, the author of the piece, and her editor at the Scottish Sunday Express, Derek Lambie."

I hadn't heard of this article until now. Seems like its just the Sunday Express slagging off the Dunblane survivors because of things they've seen on the bebo and myspace pages.

If you haven't seen the article, you can see a scan of it at http://tinyurl.com/bymr6f and http://tinyurl.com/bl9wzn

And the petition is at http://is.gd/nJKa

[Diabolical]

Apart from the fact that some of them are blatant neds, what have they done that's any different than most people the same age, weird how they chose to go mental at them.

I really don't get why they've hit out at them.

[Addy]

*signed*

Even by Daily Express "standards" that article is ridiculous. They act and have acted like normal teenagers. So what? Are they supposed to spend the rest of their lives dressed in black, mourning for an event that happened over a decade ago?

[triggerhappy]

That's fucking unbelievable.

Funny how the article at the bottom of the second page seems to suggest that those survivors who went to university are alright - it's just the ones that drink Bucky and have tattoos that are shaming the memory of the incident.

Why a Tory MP thought it was a good idea to get involved is bewildering me too.

[Cam-E]

Bits of this are hilarious in a really annoying way: "Among the blogs on his site is a list of 23 best chat-up lines – but he is still single."

Irresponsible bastard. Imagine having a blog on the internet featuring banter that might not accurately represent your personal life.

[djtoast]

Seems to me very much like a "the publicity will do us more good than the backlash for our idiocy will do us harm" case.

[LesMTS]

The PCC are on it already.

It is fucking outrageous though, even for the gutter press.

Hahahahaha: a blog exposes her facebook profile as being not all that different to what she was criticising.

Owned.

[djtoast]

It is fucking outrageous though, even for the gutter press.

I only skimmed it but it confuses me at least as much as it outrages me.

If the criticism is that drinking buckfast to excess is shameful because someone shot your classmates and teachers when you were young, does that make it okay for everyone else to do so?

[Cam-E]

It points out that one of them has a tattoo, for fucks sake, as though having a tattoo must equal a real wrong'un. I'm surprised they didn't just try and convince their readers that these kids are also gay stem-cell terrorists who wants to let all the foreigners run our country.

[TinTin]

I like how she makes a big point of them being sheltered from the press to allow them to cope with the tragedy. They were only 5 years old at the time. Did she expect them to go on GMTV for an interview??

[Addy]

Here's the Facebook group created to shame the article: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=55873492636

And Hell Andy Murray is a survivor of this attack, doubt they're going to start claiming he's "shaming the nation". Guess it must just be the ones who aren't international sporting superstars then, i.e. the normal ones then.

EDIT: Heh, I see some of you have already found the above group

[erithromycin]

Holy fuck. Those kids have gone off the rails! What kind of excuse do they have for that sort of behaviour? I mean, it's not as if there's any traumatic incidents in their childhood...

[metallideth]

Surprised the Express were interested, was one of the kids hiding Maddie and Princess Diana in their bottle of Polaris?

[pANDAS Radio]

This is interesting.

http://www.bloggerheads.com/archives...rek_lambie.asp

[Addy]

This is interesting.

http://www.bloggerheads.com/archives...rek_lambie.asp

Brilliant. Shall be checking that tomorrow, see if anything more is said!