This is the way to deal with it. Yes, the rags write some appalling rubbish, but we can choose not to buy it! The Daily Mail is the epitome of everything I find abhorrent about the human race, but if we ban it, what's next?
"I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it."
Voltaire
Anne, the only thing that impresses me more than your ability to always find the right quote for every situation, is knowing that you can do it in at least three languages!
Seconded!
They played the press! They just didn't like it when the press turned on them! They were hardly victims! Chris Jefferies was a victim!
The McCanns used the press to help them in their search for Madeleine - to keep her profile as high as possible which is the advice given by the experts- to give the missing person the best chance of being found.
The press for their part used and then abused them to increase their profits and have never stopped using them since.
The press don't give a hoot about the McCanns, but they know their name sells newspapers - and that is the only reason why they never miss a chance to bring Madeleine's name into every article they can. FGS the proof of that is there for all to see in the Star articles!
You seem to have forgotten what the press did to the McCanns and their friends - once again purely in the name of profit, but which they eventually and quite rightly had to pay £900,000 in compensation.
The Leveson enquiry sought to prevent that flagrant persecution and downright libelling of innocent people by a Press who didn't care if lives were being ruined as long as the profits were up. I do not understand how anyone except the Press Barons can be against that.
AIMHO