Comments on: Sunday Telegraph in late, late change of heart over Pauline Hanson photos

By: Ed

Ed — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 04:37:35 +0000

Editors make judgements every day; and on a deadline. Sometime they get it wrong, as in this case. They certainly don’t always apologise. It was a big mistake and a big apology. It’s very easy to not apologise; most of us do it every day. I think this Editor got the balance right.

By: Name Witheld

Name Witheld — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 03:01:44 +0000

I suspect most people think that Neil Breen didn’t belive the photos were genuine, but it was worth the risk for him.

By: Ayesha

Ayesha — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 01:22:17 +0000

I thought we were free from this tabloid-esque behaviour we see in other countries. The apology doesn’t quite cut it for me.

By: Lucy Patsiner

Lucy Patsiner — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 01:21:18 +0000

Whilst it’s big of The Telegraph’s editor to apologize for taking the Pauline Hanson Photo Con seriously, I think the point should be made here that nude photographs of anyone – whether they be celebrities, serious politicians or political jokes like Pauline Hanson – are really not appropriate in our news media.

Isn’t it enough to just write an article about it? Why do you have to publish grubby, revolting images of someone as physically unattractive as Pauline Hanson, in the nude? (It’s enough to put a person off their lunch, quite frankly.) Couldn’t you just have compared their faces?

I’d also like to point out that I’m not in any way a holy roller or a prude. I like sex and scandal as much as the next person. But really…EW! YUK! BLAH! Seeing naked images of someone like Miss Hanson is a bit like being given a naked calendar of Octagenarians for Christmas. Or a pair of used underpants from your grandma.

Really, you will save yourself a lot of trouble in the future if you simply show a little good taste. Just to be specific, I don’t want to see naked photos of K.Rudd, Mr. Brumby or Kim Beasly either. So if you ever get any, PLEASE, PLEASE don’t publish them.

Thanks.

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By: Jason Whittaker

Jason Whittaker — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 03:07:31 +0000

Breen specifically said his job should be called into question if the photos were fake. This is incredibly embarrassing for News papers right around the country. Is anyone in Sydney questioning his editorship? Hello? Anyone there…?

By: Ken Baker

Ken Baker — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 01:34:48 +0000

Mr T, how could you?

This terrible affair was tawdry beyond relief
I’m sure that you will with me agree
That better men don’t go so low beneath
The gutter for standards like these, Mr T.

Is public interest served by hurting publicly
A woman who in her time was brave
Who tried honestly, though unpoliticaly
To to do her best, One Nation, ours, to save.

We did not all agree with what she had to say
But when the pressure was on, she took it all and more
And came away as one who’s courage did display
Genuine character, yet you portyayed her as a whore.

Your falling sales reflect the rue of your wretched rag
Meeting neither readers’ needs nor standards
A despicable desperate dumb detour to drag
A fine woman down to your gutter level you bastards.