What does Rihanna's story say about the media? | Deborah Orr

That newspapers like to portray women as whores – then bemoan the great shame that they aren't virginsIt's always handy to have a particular individual upon whom all of the disapprobation in the world can be heaped. Currently, that person is Rihanna, who traps poor journalists on private jets, gets them drunk, then forces them to write captions under pictures of her with hardly any clothes on, saying that it's just really dreadful, isn't it, that she doesn't have a bit more self-respect. Even ...

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