Who is saying what?

Let's run a small game here - who is saying what to whom? Leave a comment but, sorry, no prizes except we all get to see how your mind works.
Right...that's the fun over for today. I don't know how many of you take the Daily Telegraph. Today's issue has a front page that could be said to very well show the sad old way this country is going. We have the dirty insinuations about two film stars, jail threat for being nasty to Satanists, advert killjoys, suggestions that the Tories need a gay leader (this Tory doesn't but it could be worse if he were a gay follower), paedophile returning to the scene of his crime unchallenged, guides for teenagers on oral and anal sex, ibuprofen causing higher risk of heart attacks ............ it is all there and it does not make for easy reading or a comfortable old age. It is not a case of the paper being in the wrong for what it reports but the fact that these items provide copy.
It used to be that if one wanted to read this sort of thing, we bought the News of the World where vicars were defrocked, reporters left as the lady of the night bared a shoulder or other slightly veiled references to hanky-panky maybe involving Scout masters. Now it is all in our face. I've no problem with such incidents being reported but would like the option of choosing a paper that prints the sort of thing I want to see. I used to like the Independant for its stance on royalty where they made no mention of their doings. Even the papers one would not expect to carry such revelations get in the act by expressing concern at the sort of thing that makes the news - this allows them to publish the nitty-gritty and yet seem censorious at the same time. I think I'll have to subscribe to Saga magazine but doubtless they will print details of aged vicars and ancient Scout masters and what Marie Lloyd may have got up to.
I'm beginning to get a bit fed up with this G8 stuff. This policeman's blog for June 6th makes interesting reading though. Actually, his whole blog makes interesting reading - must try and find out how he does it. What we need is some good copper's weather where the (Scottish) rain gets the protesters all wet and cold.
I have picked up a sense of blogging coming under scrutiny from the kill-joys. This may be due to the slimy politicians getting in on the act and using their meeja advisers to write self-publicising blogs. Journalists are also getting in on the act. These two sets of known, thin-skinned, trouble makers will start to bleat and restrict what is an outlet for comment and frustrations. In that context, this item may be interesting.