Daily Mail sinks to new low: checking out children on the beach

The issue here is that The Daily Hell would be the first paper to get in a moral panic about paedophiles yet here they are taking pictures of a sixteen year old girl in a bikini without her permission (or that of her parents) and publishing it for all the world to see. There is a word for that sort of thing.....hypocrites!

i have to agree with allsunday's comment here. she hit right on target.

regarding the girl's need to eat (because she's too skinny?) that is an american perspective. not a global perspective. in the eyes of most international culture's a person carrying 10 to 20 lbs of extra weight is seen as unhealthy. in the usa, doctors will tell their subjects they need to lose the extra pounds, exercise and watch what they eat. especially as they hit their 30's and 40's.

our media does not portray female beauty any differently than other western cultures do when it comes to the body. on the contrary, a woman with a six pack on the cover of an american fitness magazine is considered gross in other cultures.

our culture is looked upon as the baseline for what a person should not want to become from a physical standpoint. we are the baseline other nations use for gauging how out of shape and fat they are becoming. in that regard there is great concern in places like the united kingdom that they are becoming more like americans in their physical make up. especially their children.

thirty years ago there was no such thing as XXXL. there was only XL and that was meant for really big people. it's hard to find anything larger than XL when shopping overseas. in fact, an international XL is equivalent to an american L (in men's clothing at least).

somewhere america has gone through a paradigm shift. a shift to where big and a bit overweight is looked upon as being healthy as opposed to being thin. if a woman is thin or has a figure with straight hips one can hear heavier women gossiping about how unattractive she is, and how she must be anorexic or bulimic - throwing around medical terms for serious psychological and physical conditions like they are just part of fashion.

i am not one whom generally reads time magazine, but the june 23 2008 issue has a good feature on the subject. it's actually the cover story.

as for mick's daughter... she looks fine as she is. no need for her to eat more so that she can look like an american.

the paparazzi with their rude lenses and celebrities... that is another discussion.

Please.....people can't help when they get turned on. It's whether or not they have enough sence not to act on it. And hey, everyone bitches about the people checking the little girls out....if they are old enough to leave the house in skimpy clothes then they are old enough to be gawked at says this observer

She doesnt look like a fully formed woman yet!!she looks like a young woman who needs to eat.the media should let her get to 20/21!fully form and a better woman before any type of sexual judgment is passed....lets have a little respect!

The age of consent is as arbitrary as the age for legal possession of alcohol or cigarettes. No one magically transforms on their birthday. Morally, it's not that big of a deal; legally, however...

Since when is it abnormal or wrong to consider a 16-year-old girl attractive? I don't see anything about her body that's "still-unformed" or child-like. Fact is, she has developed a woman's body and is showing it off. We're not talking about an eight-year-old, here.

May be they are catering to a pedal file audience. It would not surprise me.