Jan Moir: more than 21,000 complain to PCC over Stephen Gately piece

[oldironside]

"The Press Complaints Commission has received a record 21,000 complaints about Jan Moir's article about Stephen Gately since Friday – more complaints in a single weekend than the regulator has received in total in the past five years.

Moir's article, which was published the day before Gately's funeral in Dublin, provoked widespread outrage on the web. The original headline on the Mail Online website, "Why there was nothing 'natural' about Stephen Gately's death", was later amended to the print edition headline "A strange, lonely and troubling death". The article has also prompted a complaint to the Metropolitan police.

Moir's article said Gately's death in Mallorca after a night out "strikes another blow to the happy-ever-after myth of civil partnerships".

It is understood that the PCC will be mindful of the attitudes of Gately's family and partner."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/oct/19/jan-moir-complain-stephen-gately

[LeftishBrit]

1. And quite right too.

Homophobic crap, and incredibly cruel to the recently bereaved. Plus being all fucking lies.

[oldironside]

2. At least two of those categories...

... are necessary to get anything published in the Mail.