The Daily Star is a poor excuse for a newspaper, maybe even proprietor Richard Desmond is thinking this today as his papers pay out again (to the tapas seven), but he should be ashamed as should the editor of the front page of today's paper with its headline "BBC put Muslims before you!".Accompanied by a picture of Muslim woman giving two fingers it panders to racism.The front page refers to a decision by BBC director-general Mark Thompson who has apparently announced a ban on Muslim jokes because they are more sensitive than Christians.
It sounds a ridiculous sweeping decision, which is if true is quite wrong. All groups should be open to having jokes made about them. That's all part of a healthy democracy as is a free press, which comes with an inherent responsibility that the Daily Star sorely lacks.No surprise is that this year the paper (along with sister title the Daily Express) has paid out hundreds of thousands of pounds to Kate and Gerry McCann and now today their friends the tapas seven.It tops that, with today's apology, by insulting a whole group of the British population. Nice work.
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It is a terrible newspaper for so many reasons. Thommo is massive God Squad too. There are thousands of reasons to hate the BBC and I'm not sure that the Star has picked the best one.
But it has given us a Free naked Lucy poster today, so it's not all bad.
That's true and also more than the BBC gives us
More than the BBC gives us? Oh come on the BBC is great value for money. It costs 38p a day (about the same as the Daily Star) - iPlayer is worth that alone not to mention a world class news service.
I'm not sure that I agree and nor would the commercially-funded broadcasters. But Carl on reception probably would...
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