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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.