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The Guardian / Vanessa Thorpe and Jon Ungoed-Thomas / Jul 17, 2023
“The public debate has focused on who to blame. Some are upset that a vulnerable young victim may have been exploited, as their mother alleges. Others put all the trouble caused at the door of the Sun. How did such a personally invasive story reach the threshold required for publication, they ask. Others point to the toxicity of social media. And journalists inside and outside the BBC are questioning its handling of the crisis and the news story itself.”
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