[Nicola_Red]

I really wish Chris or some other star would sue a newspaper for the crap they write.

People sue newspapers regularly, but the amount they have to pay out doesn't dent the profits they make from sales. The best way to hurt a paper is to somehow cause a mass boycott of companies that advertise with them, but that'd never happen on a big scale.

I don't think there's anything in that Mail article that Chris could successfully sue for. So many people seem to believe that the laws of libel/slander are that if something untrue is written about you, then that constitutes defamation. That's not how they work at all - something is defamatory if it causes you problems in your career and/or causes you to lose work/buisness dealings, regardless of whether it's true or not. And there are tons of defences that publications can use - 'fair comment', 'humour' etc. Most celebs who've sued newspapers in recent years have done so under this country's shaky privacy laws, rather than for libel.

[English Bob]

Boycotting newspapers is the way to go. I believe sales of The Sun are still pitiful in Liverpool following the mass boycott of the paper following its shameful coverage of the Hillsborough Disaster. They still refer to the paper locally as 'The Scum'

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillsborou ... ontroversy

[Wykey]

We don't refer to it at all if possible.

But yes, it went from more than 200,000 to around 10,000 a day.

[Munki Bhoy]

I object to her being termed as any "voice of Scotland". Take your hateful pish elsewhere.

[chrysostom]

At least most newspapers will be gone in a few years. Why pay for crap when you can get good news,opinions and content free from the internet

wrong. wrong. wrong.

much has been made of the 'inevitable' death of printed news media - but even though the e-readers are becoming more and more advanced, and easy to look at, there are many reasons why it won't happen which i can't be bothered to go into - but the main points would be

circulation would drop dramatically if content was excluisvely available online, decreasing advertising revenue

the human eye is uncomfortable with computer screens at high levels of focus for long periods

the public as a whole would be uncomfortable with such a large digital shift