Paper Monitor
14:02 UK time, Thursday, 10 March 2011
A series highlighting the riches of the daily press.
Great wisdom can be found in national newspapers.
No, not among the analysts and serious columnists, but among the agony aunts.
Like the wise Jane O'Gorman in the Daily Star.
She isn't flustered by the son-in-law who is rude and big-headed. (Advice: Keep contact to a minimum and don't let it come between parents and daughter.)
Nor does she fail with the pal who is "obsessed with porn and bedding real porn stars". (Advice: Don't help him until he's ready to change.)
Coleen in the Daily Mirror is even more of a stalwart. Her main letter is a woman whose husband wants her to put on masses of weight by feeding her chocolate and cake.
Tell him to get stuffed, says Coleen.
Over in Dear Deidre in the Sun, the main item is a tawdry tale of a girl threatened by a man with whom she had a holiday fling. He's threatening to post a video he secretly took of them having sex on the internet unless she strips over a webcam.
Deidre's answer to the girl is to tell the man she will be ignoring future messages and keeping the current ones as evidence of harassment.
But couldn't Dear Deidre go further and note that the man may have committed a crime under the voyeurism provision of the Sexual Offences Act 2003.
Ah, except further reading reveals that the incident took place in the Canaries, so one assumes Spanish law would apply.
Wise Deidre.
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