'No right to criticise': David Beckham hits back at Daily Mail coverage | Football | The Guardian
http://www.theguardian.com/football/201 ... ail-harper

Aren't the papers supposed to blur out kids? Or when does that apply?

I normally don't give a toss about celeb gossip and stuff like that but he's absolutely right on this one.

The daily fail seems to be getting worse each day. You'd think someone would stop it. All they seem to do at the moment is invite hate and racism.


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The problem is not that they've criticized where they have no right. Actually, they've every right to criticize, just like everybody else.

The problem is that they're wrong.

People in the public eye will be criticised. And this family are notorius for courting the press.

There are ways to live in a more private manner but this family are all constantly on social media.

Where are the limits? IMO if someone is putting themself out there they are going to have good and bad press written about them *shrugs*

You're right, they have no right to be precious about coverage if they use the media for promotion but there's a point where 'bad press', for example reviewing a product Victoria has designed or is associated with and saying it's bad, and "personal abuse". Saying someone is a bad parent when that is to any reasonable person obviously not the case is abuse, not criticism.

Aside from anything else, it's not that the Mail etc. are saying this stuff out of any profoundly held belief; they're saying it because they know an item slagging off a celebrity will get lots of clicks. So it's not just abuse, it's cynical, self-serving abuse.

If you use your public profile for your own profit yes, you lose the right to complain about reasonable criticism and opinion expressed vaguely politely. But everybody on earth has the right to complain about being publicly abused, famous or not.

Being public does not mean 'anything goes'.

Abuse is a very strong word and saying a child may be too old to use a dummy is hardly abuse. They are only saying what some people are probably thinking and children do have dental issues if they suck on a dummy too long. If he is that touchy about it it's probably struck a chord in him.

The Gradain and all other newspapers are guilty of doing similar things so it's just hypocritical.