Popular comic 'The Sun' has issued a public apology for a story it ran earlier this month which reportedly, inexplicably, may have contained 'a grain of truth'.
In a story about some otters in early december, The Sun ommited to fabricate a single fact, embellish any quotes or include any lazy stereotypes- in clear contravention of it's strict code of conduct.
Media observer Tom Grunick thinks this may be the begining of the end for Britains favourite peddler of celebrity tittle tattle and outright racist hostility,
He said, 'I can't see how The Sun is ever going to live this down.
''It's one thing to wire-tap people on the off chance that you might be able to piece together a lurid, half baked story about their boring private life but this? actually telling the truth?
'Well, for one thing the readership isn't going to stand for it. They're very strict about the amount of reality they allow themselves. As soon as word gets out that the drones at The Sun are slipping the truth into their usual diet of paedophiles, tits and football it'll be game over.'
The shocking revelations finish off a particularly troubling month for the nation's red-tops. On December 12th The Daily Sport published a story about a rape wihtout making any effort towards turning it into some sort of demented ecercise in titilation, a move which attracted imediate uproar.
Then, on December 17th, The Mirror's 3am girls were caught in a club in North London without any crack, smack, ketamine or glue to their name.
'Needless to say, This is all very troubling.' says Grunick.
'What's next? the Mail employing a black woman?'
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