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[sebastienne]

Hi Emma,

We did not 'tell any proportion of our readership that it did not exist.'
We reported the opinions of one person. That is what newspapers do. We
also reported the views of someone else who disagreed with him and quoted
George melly as a well-known example of a bisexual - again, hardly a
denial that bisexuals exist. We suspect that our readers have enough
intelligence to make up their own minds on such issues.

regards

Kieran Meeke
Features Editor

Comments

[stronglight.livejournal.com]

I think they have too much faith in the intelligence of their readers. Someone should explain to them (slowly) just how full the world is of morons.

[chrisvenus]

I agree with this. Although his comment is accurate for people who read and think about things what they present is two people's opinions on things. 50% think bisexuality doesn't exist. The one example they have disagrees with him but that's just one person. I think if they had made just a little bit more comment on how prevalent these views were and how many people shared them then I'd have been fine with it but its just a blatant abuse of marketing and statistics. I see where the guy is coming from and I think possibly the complaint letter was wrong to give him that chance to say "we did not tell them this" since they didn't. I dunno. Big mess really. Crap article and stuff.