THE SUNDAY TIMES AND THE SHOCKING WEBSITE PICTURE As I observed previously, the only people who dispute

any connection between smoking and lung cancer are people in the tobacco industry. The only people who dispute any connection between violent movies and anti-social behaviour, especially among children, are those in the entertainment industry. And the only people who dispute any connection between disturbing content in the media and the encouragement of a morally-corrupt culture are those in the media industry, confirmed by the Sunday Times publishing of what it subheadlined as this shocking website picture! The publishing of the disturbing picture is a contradiction of the very theme of its headlined article the exposure of children to material that poses a real risk of harm to their emotional and psychological well-being. The decision by the Sunday Times to publish the story with such a disturbing image confirms a chilling fact: that many newspaper publishers and broadcasters do not appreciate the response of Parliament to its concerns about the emotional and psychological well-being of children, in particular, and society in general, in passing certain laws, especially the Childrens Act and the Films and Publications Act. If the Sunday Times really believed that the picture it published was shocking, it could have written the article without publishing the image but with appropriate descriptions. And if the Sunday Times was trying to assist the police in asking the public to identify the pervert in the picture, it could have done so by publishing only that part of the image which clearly showed the face of the person involved. The image from the waistup would have been sufficient for that purpose. But then, is the Sunday Times concerned about the well-being of children? The evidence says No increasing sales for more profits is more important than the emotional and psychological well-being of children.