It must be time for The Sun to be shut down

[jellycake]

Just this really
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/07/29/the-sun-newspaper-devil-mark_n_5629308.html?ncid=webmail1

The owners, editors and, in particular, the writer of this piece are morally reprehensible.

[Cereal0ffender]

The mother is a bit of a dick as well

[jellycake]

Surely, they should be more concerned about how unexplained marks came to be on the child and, as pointed out by some of the tweets on the article, seem to be a hairdryer burn!

[CaptChaos]

This is front page news for a UK national newspaper? I use the term newspaper loosely, they still think breasts are news there

Today's news includes:

The middle east crisis heating up even further.
Tougher sanctions being proposed against Russia.
A man killing a 6 week old baby.
China investigating it's ex security chief.

And the Sun thought 'bugger all that, let's run with the kid who's been burned with a hairdryer'

Riiiiiight!

[dawndonnaagain]

It really is time somebody shut them down.

[BabeRuthless]

It's absolutely appalling. I don't know what on earth made them think that was a suitable or humorous front page. They should be ashamed of themselves. I also can't believe they're justifying it by saying the mother posted it over Facebook. Since when was Facebook a hunting ground for front page stories?

[BarleyBub]

I don't like or read the Sun but I don't see any reason why they should be shut down. You can't arbitrarily decide what is and isn't worthy of being on the the front page of a newspaper. It's up to them to decide what their readers will buy.

[dawndonnaagain]

They named the child Barley can you even begin to imagine the level of bullying that will ensue?
The paper is anachronistic and should have folded many, many years ago.

[SublimeCorpse]

Good grief.

The mother is as bad, allowing her child to be photographed and playing along with it.

Ridiculous.

[HedgehogHairbrush]

I was absolutely appalled to see this on a rack in the newsagents as I queued this morning. i said as much to the assistant - how can it possibly be ok to photograph and name a child and right such nonsense. That child will be known and recognised and taunted about this and they had zero choice in the matter. I have a 4 year old and cannot imagine sidelining their right to privacy and dignity in the is way in the pursuit of a few mins fame for myself. It is such a ridiculous claim too - are we actually in the 21st century?! It is like something from the middle ages.

[TurboWithAKick]

It sells, makes them money.... Why would they 'close down'?

[HedgehogHairbrush]

They've not only named him but given his home town and listed where he goes to school - do they have anyone who thought about this for one single second?!

[Nancy66]

of course it's not going to be closed down, it's the most popular newspaper in the country.

[Bluebelljumpsoverthemoon]

Poor child, on the other hand the publicity may bring
this mother to the attention of social workers. They're's something very wrong with a parent who publicly exposes their child like that. They also need to take a second look at that burn. It's unlikely to have magically appeared.

[edamsavestheday]

WTF were they thinking?! Horrific. And I'm a hack (magazines, not newspapers, and far more boring/less high profile, before anyone tries to tar me with this brush). Absolutely appalling.