Censorship alive and kicking…. at diversity.net.nz

Print media is so out of touch with reality…

News this morning that Fairfax media hired casual staff in Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch to remove pages 5 and 6, 45 and 46 from about 200,000 copies of the Sunday Star Times liftout last week after it was discovered that… shock horror… a link was printed to a website run by porn queen Suzanne Portnoy. This raises two interesting, and somewhat dichotomous, points;

It’s available to anyone with an internet connection, a browser and a search engine - censorship is futile
If it’s that outside the tastes and interests of your readership, why print it at all - isn’t it merely low brow titillation otherwise?

Fairfax lost out both ways - first by scraping the barrel and printing the dribble and then by a last ditch attempt to censor it

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1 Suzanne Portnoy
Mar 20th, 2008 at 12:04 pm

Wow - I found this article as a trackback from my blog. Porn Queen?? Hardly. I am a divorced, middle-aged, single mother of two teenagers. I have written two sex confessionals, the first of which was a bestseller and the second of which has only just come out in the U.K. I can only assume that the article the Herald published was syndicated from the London Sunday Times magazine, who published a cover story on me a few weeks ago and mentioned my blog. The story was about the rise of the sexually liberated middle-aged woman and about my lifestyle. I haven’t made a porn film in my life. Interesting how the media chose to spin this story.
2 Raf
Mar 20th, 2008 at 8:10 pm

Well makes a change from boring old Saas

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