by Sunny Hundal

The Sun newspaper has this front-page today, with a feeble attempt at defending itself.

It still doesn’t address the central point: where was the public interest in exposing Brown’s son’s cystic fibrosis?

It’s unlikely most people will look at that and take the newspaper’s side – no one would want details of their children’s illness to be exposed in such a way.

The Sun says today its source was a member of the public whose family has also experienced cystic fibrosis, and “had links” with the Brown family. But what kind of an idiot would expose someone else’s son’s medical condition to raise awareness of an illness while remaining anonymous themselves?

On Twitter last night, the response to the Sun’s front page was overwhelmingly negative.

A poll by YouGov last week found only 9% of people now think tabloid reporting is fair and accurate, with 71% believing it is not.

The chances that Britons will mostly take the Sun’s side over that of a grieving father is highly unlikely.

Time for another boycott campaign?