Oh dear. I shudder to think what horrors will be sought for and unveiled from people’s private lives now that apparently being gay fails to raise the proverbial eyebrow.
The Sun may have been proud of its front-page scoop outing X Factor winner Joe McElderry on 31 July, but the general public seems to think the singer’s sexuality is far from breaking news.
Nearly 50 per cent of the 3,000 respondents to PRWeek/OnePoll’s latest survey said sexuality was no longer newsworthy, while a further 37 per cent said they had already assumed McElderry was gay. Just five per cent said they considered the story to be ‘news’.
via: Reputation Survey: Media Attitudes Towards Homosexuality | PR Week, UK
