The Sun: It gets more sickening by the day...

The Sun newspaper’s headline today highlights just what a cancerous organisation we are examining, Brown’s not wrong The Sun is.

Today News International begins its offensive defence with the headline “Brown Wrong” and a sneering defence of the 2006 revelations about Gordon Brown’s son, claiming that Brown has got this all wrong and that Rebekah Brooks et al obtained this specific information legitimately. Disregarding the other allegations against News International they reckon we’re all being too mean about Brooks, The Times and their right to freedom of speech.

You would have thought this organisation and its newspapers would have shown more humility, given the stories that have come out in the last week. One allegedly false allegation does not warrant this response, the basic question with this story does not concern where the information came from but that they printed this story at all, particularly with the Browns’ plea for the paper not to do so. It was an inhuman action by a morally bankrupt corporation representing the interests of a shell of a man. In short it was one of the worst things you could do to a family, to a four-month old boy who had wronged anyone and did not deserve this exposure. It was not, however, the worst. For this, see the Dowler case…

This is the last desperate stand of a cancerous organisation against a deeply unpopular man. A man whose unpopularity was created by the consistent lies and mistruths reported by a media conglomerate with a personal vendetta against an elected, career civil servant. A decent man with the integrity and decency that no one from News International has shown over the last twenty years and certainly not in the last two weeks.

News International’s actions today have underlined the cancerous, sick, distorted nature of this crumbling empire and I am left with nothing to say but “Show some fucking humility and respect and take one on the chin, Lord knows your victims have earned that you twisted scum. It is not the source but the nature of the story that is so disgusting, arrogant and harrowing…”