Celebrities, injunctions and the Archbishop,of Canterbury- do we care?

These stories have curiosity factor but are they 'news'?, do they deserve a place in news bulletins or in a newspaper? No. But we have allowed a strange sort of journalism to grow in this country and I have no idea how to stop it. Not buying newspapers doesn't seem to make a difference, they take to the Internet and fill the space with even more rubbish and keep afloat with advertising... I don't give a fig for the 'celebrity' who has gone to court but I am sorry for Justin Welby and his family although he seems to be coping with his usual good nature. Did they deserve this sort of attention? No.

Yesterday's DT devoted the first 7 pages to Justin Welby's parentage and is front page news again today. I didn't even bother reading it. It is surely a private matter and as he apparently didn't know and is not responsible, as many celebrities are, it should have been kept that way.
Muck raking springs to my mind.

Yawn !

I hear both items yesterday and have to say I was particularly disinterested.

Neither, for me , count as news.... I'm not interested in other peoples personal lives whether that be who their biological father is or any celebrity niff naff and trivia. It just smacks of a slow news day to me.

I'm not the least bit interested in who is the father of the A of C - what I do find interesting is the very 'forgiving' and non-judgmental attitude to his mother by the press, particularly Charles Moore of the Telegraph (I heard him on Radio 4 yesterday morning)

Contrast that with the press's attitude to women lower down the pecking order - imagine the headlines 'council house girl had sex the night before her wedding to another man and brought up son with the wrong dad'.

He's the image of his biological father and it seems there have been rumours - and his dear old mother is expressing her shock and surprise!

I saw the report was on the news but found it so uninteresting I didn't stop reading my book to listen. Couldn't care less whose biological father someone has - its the bringing up but that is important.