There's a piece on The Guardian website about The Daily Star and their "obsession" with Ryan Gigg's love life. This may well be true, they always do like to kill stories, Jordan will not be happy that Giggs is taking front-pages that should rightfully be hers, and there was the summer where everyday for the entire run of Big Brother they featured a story about it on their front page, most of them being silly "fixing scandals" which generally made no sense.
My problem here is that singling out the Daily Star let's other papers off scott-free. For instance The Daily Mail today has a "story" about Natasha Giggs. Here's a story from yesterday's Sun about Natasha Giggs going shopping. That's not obsessed with the story is it? A story about a woman going shopping. If you search "Giggs" on The Sun's website I'm sure you'd find at least one story per day. Now, that's just as obsessed as The Daily Star, but a bit more hidden, The Daily Star are just a bit brazen at appealing to the lowest common denominator - just as they are when they run barely disguised racism, they say more openly what the Daily Mail cloak with respectability.
The Daily Mail are perhaps the worst offenders, because they make the greater play of taking the moral high-ground, while at the same time having the same obsession with salacious stories and the sordid detail of love-affairs, having bikini-clad women all over their website while complaining about the sexualisation of children.
So yes, let's slag off the The Daily Star (though there's a lot worse things to slag it off for than an obsession with Giggs), but let's not forget the other culprits too.
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