just when you think the internet has lost the ability to make you furious
Dear Daily Mail,
Shut up, shut up, SHUT UP.
[edited for a new googledoc link to the article. Deny the Daily Mail hits]
Healthy and fit 33-year-old men do not just climb into their pyjamas and go to sleep on the sofa, never to wake up again... Whatever the cause of death is, it is not, by any yardstick, a natural one. Let us be absolutely clear about this. All that has been established so far is that Stephen Gately was not murdered.
And I think if we are going to be honest, we would have to admit that the circumstances surrounding his death are more than a little sleazy... Another real sadness about Gately's death is that it strikes another blow to the happy-ever-after myth of civil partnerships.
Gay activists are always calling for tolerance and understanding about same-sex relationships, arguing that they are just the same as heterosexual marriages. Not everyone, they say, is like George Michael.
Of course, in many cases this may be true. Yet the recent death of Kevin McGee, the former husband of Little Britain star Matt Lucas, and now the dubious events of Gately's last night raise troubling questions about what happened.
It is important that the truth comes out about the exact circumstances of his strange and lonely death.
As a gay rights champion, I am sure he would want to set an example to any impressionable young men who may want to emulate what they might see as his glamorous routine.
There is so much wrong with that article I don't even know where to start and in any case, I am so angry I have to go and do something else because otherwise I'm going to break something.
ETA: The Press Complaints Commission servers are struggling to cope - next step, the advertisers.
ETA 2: Derren Brown has helpfully put on his Twitter where Moir's article breaks the Code of Practice
ETA 3: c&p from the Facebook page.
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Shut up, shut up, SHUT UP.
[edited for a new googledoc link to the article. Deny the Daily Mail hits]
Healthy and fit 33-year-old men do not just climb into their pyjamas and go to sleep on the sofa, never to wake up again... Whatever the cause of death is, it is not, by any yardstick, a natural one. Let us be absolutely clear about this. All that has been established so far is that Stephen Gately was not murdered.
And I think if we are going to be honest, we would have to admit that the circumstances surrounding his death are more than a little sleazy... Another real sadness about Gately's death is that it strikes another blow to the happy-ever-after myth of civil partnerships.
Gay activists are always calling for tolerance and understanding about same-sex relationships, arguing that they are just the same as heterosexual marriages. Not everyone, they say, is like George Michael.
Of course, in many cases this may be true. Yet the recent death of Kevin McGee, the former husband of Little Britain star Matt Lucas, and now the dubious events of Gately's last night raise troubling questions about what happened.
It is important that the truth comes out about the exact circumstances of his strange and lonely death.
As a gay rights champion, I am sure he would want to set an example to any impressionable young men who may want to emulate what they might see as his glamorous routine.
There is so much wrong with that article I don't even know where to start and in any case, I am so angry I have to go and do something else because otherwise I'm going to break something.
ETA: The Press Complaints Commission servers are struggling to cope - next step, the advertisers.
ETA 2: Derren Brown has helpfully put on his Twitter where Moir's article breaks the Code of Practice
ETA 3: c&p from the Facebook page.
Advertisers BT Broadband and National Express coaches (press edition) and online advertisers Procter and Gamble (Pantene, Fair Non Bio Gel), M&S, Jean-Patrique Knives, ScienceandMaths.net, Clinique, Kodak, Nescafe and Enjoy England should be made aware of the hateful content that their brands have been placed to.
If you want to contact an advertiser whose brand communication has been placed next to this hateful content and alert them contact details are publicly listed as follows. Advertisers do not have advanced knowlege of the content of Mail columns, but they or their media buying departments can contact the Mail and let them know if they are unhappy with how their adverts have been placed and the content they are placed next to.