Today's front page from The Sun, the UK's most read tabloid newspaper: "BOY, 4 HAS MARK OF DEVIL"
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[quote=The Guardian][b]The Sun is facing a barrage of criticism after featuring a half-naked four-year-old boy with a "mark of the devil" on his chest on its front page.[/b]
The tabloid's "exclusive" story featured unpixellated images of the child and his mother.
The paper was accused of starting a witch-hunt and endangering the child after publishing the story with the headline: "BOY, 4, HAS MARK OF DEVIL."
The child's mother is quoted saying: "Just looking at it made me shake, thinking something unnatural had visited my boy. Something or someone made the sign on him but we just can't explain how."
The story goes on to explain that the mark appeared on 23 May and had gone by 16 June. The story does not state if the child's parents were paid for the story.
MPs were among readers who took to Twitter to express outrage and called for the front page to be pulled. After seeing an early edition, Sarah Wollaston, the Tory MP for Totnes, tweeted on Monday night: "@TheSunNewspaper should pull their damaging front page story with photo of a child. He does not carry 'mark of devil' he is a real child!".
Speaking to the Guardian, Wollaston said she would be referring to the story to the Press Complaints Commission. [b]"It is a completely outrageous headline, and to link that with an identifiable picture of a child is wholly inappropriate on every level," she said. "This is absolutely not lighthearted. What possible justification can there be for including this child's face, or for saying this child is marked by the devil? It is the most irresponsible piece of journalism I have seen for a long time."[/b]
[url=http://www.theguardian.com/media/2014/jul/29/the-sundevil-satan-boy-outrage-chest]Source[/url][/quote]
As many people on the internet have already pointed out, the "mark" looks suspiciously [url=http://imgur.com/a/BN5MB]like the grill from a hair dryer.[/url]
[QUOTE=theblah12;45534836]As many people on the internet have already pointed out, the "mark" looks suspiciously [url=http://imgur.com/a/BN5MB]like the grill from a hair dryer.[/url][/QUOTE]
great, now the mark of the devil is on our hair dryers as well
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I'd imagine this sucks for the kid. Bunch of lunatic fucks yelling that you're the anti-christ and that you mark the end of days
Fuck all of this country's tabloids forever, seriously
Do people still take The Sun seriously? For a while now I've thought of it as just a bit of a laugh like the Daily Star or Sunday Sport.
[QUOTE=Aphtonites;45534902]Fuck all tabloids forever, seriously[/QUOTE]
FTFY
looks like the TF2 sniper icon to me imho
Yeah, lets ignore a possible case of child abuse and write it off as a tabloid instead
Scumbags
Lee Harvey Oswald has possessed him.
I have a feeling the mother will be getting a visit from child protection services pretty soon.
the whole paper is a complete joke, its like having The Onion being the most read paper in the UK
except this isn't satire
[QUOTE=Kirbunny431;45534915]FTFY[/QUOTE]
Weekly World News was a gem among them while it lasted.
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But that's parody for ya. I regret not convincing my mom to get the issue with the Titanic being found in the Bermuda Triangle back in 2006.
Mark of the Devil? I see no 616 on this boy, but his mum could be the devil for putting the poor fucking kid through this marlarky
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Looks more like the sighting mechanism from a WWII era anti-aircraft gun.
as someone on reddit pointed out, the design of the mark is similar to that of a hairdryers' mesh
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physically painful[/QUOTE]The Sun's pun department should probably be fired into a similarly-named body of hydrogen and nuclear fusion.
Are they actually retarded?
[QUOTE=paul simon;45535640]Are they actually retarded?[/QUOTE]Not quite, they just know their target audience very well; how to push their buttons and whatnot.
Amazing to see that the tits on page 3 are now running the paper.
THATS A FUCKING BULLSEYE YOU MORONS
Wtf
That looks like a crosshair, since when was that the mark? Are all FPS games from the devil now as well?
This is stupid on every level
