The UK's most loathsome paper manages to plumb new lows today (February 24), with a big banner above the front page headline reading "Why is it clever to be dumb?". On one side of those words is a picture of Gail Trimble, the young woman who just led her Oxford college to victory in University Challenge. On the other is a picture of Jade Goody.
The author of this pile of bile, one Harry Mount, says he has nothing against Jade Goody. He has a funny way of showing it, ranting against "a young woman famous only for being famous, and her wedding to a violent ex-con".
Jade Goody is the product of a broken home. She has terminal cancer, so her two young children are about to be orphaned. You'd think even the Hate Mail would think better of criticising her at such a time, but evidently you'd be wrong. Mount's article is despicable, and the paper's editor should be ashamed of himself for giving it such prominence.
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