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Out of interest I did a Google search for Guardian pieces mentioning Nicola Bulley. After ten pages of results I gave up counting. Not that the Guardian would be crass enough to join the carnival of hysteria. It must have had deeper and more socially responsible reasons.
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"How dreadful the police are, how sexist society is, how dreadful health care is, how the regions are underfunded and that makes lives precarious, no support for mothers, the stigma of menopause, the stigma of alcohol dependency, how global warming makes river banks treacherous, how Tory swine should put up more safety notices, etc., etc."
The Sun shows you pictures of tits, and the Guardian gets you thinking about tits. With the extra pleasure of wanting to harm blokes who think about tits too much.
Similarly, Channel 4 wouldn't offer us soft porn, but it will put on documentaries about porn stars, hookers, and drag queens all at work.
It's all emotional porn, but the Guardian likes theirs to come with a social justice angle.
Another reason has to be that the autocue-writers at the Guardian all assume that readers are thick, so they have to keep re-organising each item to say the same thing, but make it look different!
What they all need is directing by AI robots.
Sam - I agree, it's emotional porn. Like soaps, sob stories, scare stories, drama, sport and even the news. Maybe the Guardian is smart enough to supply its readers with excuses for indulging their emotional needs.
Scrobs - yes, it's like an excuse to be fascinated by the same thing day after day. Just make it slightly different and that's the excuse.
James - if they are already I'm not sure the readers would notice.
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