Hislop: Bring The Public To Account!

This could be seen as facile, but I think Ian Hislop has a point and it is one Jamie Reed (the Labour MP for Copeland) and I briefly touched on during this Podcast last summer. Put basically the worst tabloids would not behave as they have done unless there was a market for it, and so the public should ask themselves why they buy the papers they do, what they constitute as news, and whether they had their part to play in the damage caused by such papers!
We can all do immense damage by simple actions and by a hunger for muckraking and we should admit that, to ourselves if not to others