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When The Sun updated today's front page for its final edition it probably should have dropped the free toy promotion. The first edition had The Sun offering its free toys above a story about a prolific paedophile, which was pretty awkward as it was:
...but the free City Police Boat seems particularly inappropriate above the revised front page:
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Rupert Murdoch has caused something of a storm over the weekend by referring to phone-hacking victims as "scumbag celebrities" in a tweet:
And there was more to come from the Tweeting tycoon. In an apparent bid to justify the hacking of celebrity's phones, Murdoch went on to suggest privacy campaigners, such as the "scumbag celebrities" lobbying David Cameron for tougher privacy laws, could unwittingly protect sex offenders like Jimmy Savile through their actions.
Replying to another tweeter, Murdoch said:
Perhaps the notoriously forgetful Murdoch really believes his journalists were only hacking phones in search of criminals. And perhaps he's deliberately overlooking the important public interest difference between unearthing criminal activity and hacking into celebrity voicemails for gossip, in order to muddy the waters. He may be hoping people are so stupid they'll think 'Well I don't like sex offenders so I guess I'm opposed to privacy laws'.
But attempting to benefit from the awfulness of the Savile story isn't just incredibly tasteless, his nonsense logic puts Murdoch on a par with former News Of The World hack Paul McMullen who infamously told the Leveson Inquiry that "privacy is for paedos".
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Followers of the @ITVNews twitter feed may have noticed a few interesting retweets from the account this evening as it covered the outage experienced by O2 mobile phone customers:
Edgy. But those retweets were swiftly followed by an apology, claiming they had been retweeted in error:
Of course this isn't the first time the person at the controls of the ITV News twitter feed has gone a little rogue. Back in 2010 the account shared some opinions on Nigella Lawson:
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BBC Question Time this week introduced its @BBCextraguest Twitter feed. The idea is straightforward enough - each week a guest tweeter will comment alongside the broadcast of the show.
First up was The Spectator's Toby Young, who found the temptation for self promotion in front of such a captive audience all too much:
And another plug for The Spectator...
It's a bit like inviting somebody to your party only to find them trying to sell tickets for a different party across town. Perhaps they should have gone for @BBCunwelcomeguest.
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