I know Channel 4 News is supposed to be "daring" but I was shocked to see an item this evening filmed in a Stoke Newington school in which Jon Snow approaches a child and asks "Have you looked at porn on the internet?"
The child (Jamie), who only looked about twelve or thirteen, was so surprised to be asked such a thing that he could hardly speak and barely managed to stutter out a denial.
Is it acceptable for adults to ask young children about their sexual behaviour? Is this not prurience bordering on corruption of a minor? What if the child had blurted out "yes" - would he not be humiliated on national television before his fellow school-children, teachers and parents?
Am I alone in thinking adults have a duty to preserve the innocence of children?
Whatever we might think of Jon Snow, he is a person of some status. Channel 4, for all its avant garde posing, is a national institution. Will perverted adults use the excuse that because Jon Snow asked a young teenager about their sexual habits that they are entitled to do the same without falling foul of the law?
Jon Snow has form in this area. On 11th December 2012 he asked two young girls about their sexual behaviour (http://afroml.blogspot.co.uk/2012/12/did-you-like-what-you-saw.html ). One more incident like this and I think we will be justified in calling him a dirty old man.
http://www.channel4.com/news/catch-up/
The child (Jamie), who only looked about twelve or thirteen, was so surprised to be asked such a thing that he could hardly speak and barely managed to stutter out a denial.
Is it acceptable for adults to ask young children about their sexual behaviour? Is this not prurience bordering on corruption of a minor? What if the child had blurted out "yes" - would he not be humiliated on national television before his fellow school-children, teachers and parents?
Am I alone in thinking adults have a duty to preserve the innocence of children?
Whatever we might think of Jon Snow, he is a person of some status. Channel 4, for all its avant garde posing, is a national institution. Will perverted adults use the excuse that because Jon Snow asked a young teenager about their sexual habits that they are entitled to do the same without falling foul of the law?
Jon Snow has form in this area. On 11th December 2012 he asked two young girls about their sexual behaviour (http://afroml.blogspot.co.uk/2012/12/did-you-like-what-you-saw.html ). One more incident like this and I think we will be justified in calling him a dirty old man.
http://www.channel4.com/news/catch-up/
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