On the first day of class in London, our teacher handed out copies of some of the daily newspapers here in London. I was shocked to find the “f” word printed in one of them. A guy in our class was looking through a different newspaper than I was and on page 3, he found a picture of a topless model. The whole class was stunned that such a thing would be in a newspaper.
It was very obvious to all of us on that first day that British newspapers have very different standards than those in America. You would never find a picture of a topless model in any American newspaper. Those types of images are saved for Playboy magazine. Also, very rarely will you find a curse word in an American newspaper, and if you do, it will most definitely NOT be the “f” word.
The rules for British newspapers are very lax, there doesn’t seem to be much that they can’t print. And as we are all finding out during this News of the World phone hacking scandal, there isn’t much they won’t do to get a story.
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