Distrust all those in whom the urge to punish is strong -- Goethe
It had crossed my mind to write something about the journalistic reaction to the extraordinarily harsh sentencing of the Facebook Two - the two men jailed for four years for supposedly inciting a riot via social media. The media watchdog MediaLens, however, appears to have saved me the trouble. Easily the most staggering reaction to the men's sentences was that of The Guardian's Michael White (above), who, in his Guardian politics blog, relished the prospect of the two men being raped in prison. This, ladies and gentlemen, from a doyen of Britain's foremost left-wing newspaper - although perhaps this is what to be expected from a man who looks like a sadistic Home Counties headmaster...
It had crossed my mind to write something about the journalistic reaction to the extraordinarily harsh sentencing of the Facebook Two - the two men jailed for four years for supposedly inciting a riot via social media. The media watchdog MediaLens, however, appears to have saved me the trouble. Easily the most staggering reaction to the men's sentences was that of The Guardian's Michael White (above), who, in his Guardian politics blog, relished the prospect of the two men being raped in prison. This, ladies and gentlemen, from a doyen of Britain's foremost left-wing newspaper - although perhaps this is what to be expected from a man who looks like a sadistic Home Counties headmaster...
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