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Brass Eye vs The Day Today - Which is better? (feddit.uk)

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago

The BrassEye special. Theres two facts I'll always remember about that. Firstly, the way the media, I think it was The Sun, had a go at the show for taking the piss out of pedophilia. Of course the show is taking the piss out of the way the media reacts to the cases.

I've just checked wiki and it was The Star but read the whole quote to find out why they were quite hypocritical along with the Daily Mail (no surprise)

There was also a tabloid campaign against Morris, who refused to discuss the issue. The Daily Star decried Morris and the show, and the Daily Mail ran a headline describing Brass Eye as "Unspeakably Sick" (quoting Beverley Hughes). The Observer accused both papers of hypocrisy; it noted that the Star article was positioned adjacent to an article about the developing bust of 15-year-old singer Charlotte Church, and that the Mail's coverage was preceded by "close-ups" of the "bikini princesses" Beatrice and Eugenie, who were 12 and 11 at the time.