Bigoldowl wrote:
> Yet another one of these "sensational stories" by this
> cretinous rag. They've just use a preselected series of words
> when describing anything to do with porn. We have here the
> usual selection; "depraved" and "lurid" are just two examples
> that the "showbiz editor" has delved from the Sun's tawdry
> lexicon.
>
> They've used the other tried and tested formula which is: "too
> explicit to print in a family(?) newspaper". Then in the next
> paragraph print, in explicit detail, all the acts performed.
> This is done with a sniggering-nudge-nudge-wink-wink attitude
> which you'd expect to find from a fourth-former in a 1960's
> boarding school.
>
> Anyone with a modicum of understanding realises that this
> "story" represents, yet again, the height of rancid hypocrisy
> by this stinking hyprocritical vomit inducing rag!!!
>
> What makes me angry is why to people buy it? !furious!
>
>
Yep, 'deparaved' and 'lurid' are good circulation boosters. The Sun aren't stupid ... those words are like that little red triangle Channel 4 experimented with some years back, rags to a bull, so to speak.
