Hypocrisy and the art of Chen

The SCMP yesterday published an Op-Ed imploring “the community” to move on from the “celebrity photos scandal”. Sensible words and indeed the whole Edison Chen situation has got extremely boring. And as the SCMP stated, it’s time for everyone to move on. Today’s SCMP we could infer from Friday’s Op-Ed would be Chen-free. Alas no; it seems the paper ignored its own advice as half the front page of today’s City section was devoted to the story with three separate pieces about it. Is this “moving on” or are the SCMP pretending to take the high ground while really being as fascinated by the whole grubby spectacle as everyone else? The SCMP also seems to require its ‘news reporters’ to do no more than scour websites for quotes. Rather bizarre that anonymous posters such as Pinkchocolate are quoted in a news story, even more bizarre that said story took TWO reporters to file. Martin Wong and Vivienne Chow must have worked well into the night to file that. And while I am on a SCMP-bashing roll, will they please hire a decent Op-Ed sub-editor.