
ALT Pic 1: From the Guardian: On Friday night the tabloid claimed that “a well-known presenter” at the BBC had given a young person “more than £35,000 since they were 17 in return for sordid images”. Owning explicit pictures of a 17-year-old counts as possession of child sexual abuse images under English and Welsh law, is a serious criminal offence that carries a recommended jail term. As a result…” Pic 2 statement from The S*n: “The Sun has no plans to publish further allegations. We must also re-emphasise that the Sun at no point in our original story alleged criminality and also took the decision neither to name Mr Edwards nor the young person involved in the allegations. Suggestions about possible criminality were first made at a later date by other media outlets, including the BBC.” Pic 3. Front page of The Sun, April 1989, “The Truth” is the headline, above a set of lies it printed about Hillsborough, lies that played a part in nobody ever being convicted of the 97 unlawful deaths.



















