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In defence of attacks on Jan Moir

October 24th, 2009 | benjamin

FleetStreetBlues is an irreplaceable resource for freelance/unemployed journalists and writers in the UK.

Which is why I found its defence of Jan Moir’s Stephen Gately column bizarre.

In her piece, Moir revels in her completely unconcealed disgust at sex between two or more men.

FSB suggests that, in fact, such an interpretation of the piece might be confined to ‘university-educated, liberal-leaning journalists’ and therefore implies that the UK public at large endorses Moir’s perspective.

This underwrites the basis of the post, as far I can understand it. FSB seems to be suggesting that because The Daily Mail – the newspaper which published the column – represents and indulges the views of a large numbers of people in the UK, we should think twice before criticising the hateful things that it says:

The Daily Mail is a great paper, because its every article is written single-mindedly for the benefit of its readers. Not its journalists.

A perverse, incomprehensible, and irrelevant argument.

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