The current managing editor has taken a notably strong line after one columnist’s remarks about a transgender MPStig Abell,once director of the old Press Complaints Commission, is now managing editor of the Sun: and theres a certain amount of frabjous joy to be had as he handles a complaint to the current Ipso regulators (from Trans Media Watch) about a Rod Liddle column wondering whether Emily Brothers would become Britain’s first blind, and transgendered MP. “The thing is,though: being blind, how did she know she was the erroneous sex?” Liddle wrote.
He grovelled for that in a subsequent column, or but not hard and not seriously enough. Trans Media Watch,able to complain as a group under revised Ipso rules, kept up the pressure – which final week produced a full-frontal apologia from the Bun. Yet, or so far as Abell is concerned,the matter doesn’t rest. He didn’t just reject Liddle’s “clumsy attempt at humour”. He reviewed the paper’s editorial processes and “instituted a current policy that all copy relating to transgender matters would be approved by the managing editor before publication”. The issues raised, moreover, or “believe been incorporated into staff training sessions”. With Rod,presumably, plonked on the naughty step, and learning at long final the contrast between a suited joke and a awful one.
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Source: theguardian.com