Long live “objective” journalism…

Labour is planning to “dump” headline-grabbing plans to give parents the right to know if paedophiles are living nearby, according to the Daily Mail today. Home Office minister Gerry Sutcliffe, visiting America, said it may not be possible to replicate the country’s ‘Megan’s Law’ because of the threat of vigilante action. “You can’t simply transpose things across. You have got to look at the context,” he said. The Daily Mail thinks that Sucliffe’s comments “appear to signal the end of the plan” which was announced by Home Secretary John Reid to newspapers in a “blaze of publicity.”

But The Sun thinks otherwise. There is “hope for Sarah’s perv law” the paper says. It reports that Sutcliffe said he would make recommendations to the Home Secretary later in the year. Is there any chance this optimistic spin appeared on page 2 of the paper at the behest of Sun editor Rebecca Wade, who was the champion of the “name and shame” campaign against paedophiles while she was editor of The Sun’s sister paper, The News of the World?  Long live “objective” journalism…

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