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My house - 34 Pridham Road

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Dark Alley leading from Elm Road to Bensham Manor Road
Thornton Heath High Street

Weekly news 11

CHECK-IN...THEN CHECKED OUT

Pervy hotel boss spied on naked saleswoman, 27, as she undressed in room… then she was offered an extra night’s stay to say sorry

Source: The Sun.

The real reason I choose this story was because of the images that the Sun decided to include in the article. For example, this image was included with the tagline "Clare Day was sickened when she saw the man staring at her."

It's quite a sexualized picture that Clare herself seem to have taken and probably posted to her personal and private social media accounts or may have just been keeping for herself. Regardless of what Clare did with this picture, the Sun thought that it would be an appropriate picture to include with this story. One where Clare was sexually offended. A story about sexual offense that includes sexualized pictures of the victim. Considering that it's The Sun, who up until recently had naked women in every paper, I'm not really surprised but it goes to show that The Sun's representation of gender and issues is skewed to the point where morals seem to be non existent.

Enough about the paper, the actual story is about Clare Day who checked into a hotel and while undressing later in her room, noticed the man who had checked her in was at the window, peering in at her undressing. As it was a first-time offense, he was let off with caution for voyeurism. The real unbelievable part is that the hotel tried to compensate by offering her a free nights stay. A free nights stay at a hotel that she couldn't possibly sleep at after the ordeal to make up for an incident that required her husband to take 2 weeks off of work just to make sure she wasn't alone. The hotel needs to be shut down immediately.

If we compare The Sun's presentation of this story to The Mirror's, we can see that The Mirror's included much less sexualized photos and a lot more fact based, unbiased information. They included the date of the incident, the location of the hotel, more quotes from Clare herself, more information about her husband who took 2 weeks off of work and was just in general, a lot more sensitive about the subject.

Weekly news 10

Primary school grades PARENTS from A to D on how well they're supporting their children, with the worst performers called into the head's office


Source: Daily Mail.

Considering that the Daily Mail is a conservative paper and is not often for the people, this article was remarkably pro-parents who seemed to be outraged by the thought of a primary school judging them based on their parenting. And I agree. The grades are decided on how involved the parents are with their student's learning. Failing to attend extra-curricular activities will result in lower grading. Which is pure stupidity. There are single parents who have to have multiple jobs just to put food on the table but this school thinks they have the right to judge and criticize parents, telling them they're not doing well enough as parents. Get the hell off your pedestal. I mean compare this to even worse off areas where parents find it even harder to sustain their children and be a big part of their lives. True, some parents aren't very active in their children's educations where they could be but it's what the teacher's are paid to do. If this school tried doing this in a worse off area, the school wouldn't last one month. The amount of angry parents who'd be coming down to give the school a piece of their mind would be comedic. This is a presentation of age and issues.