'girl that eats bricks'

Commuting from Southampton to Winchester appears to be a bit of a struggle and as it is still early days and the whole 'new' experience of the university takes over our brains meaning we are forced to wake up extra early (and by this I mean we leave around an hour before lecture each day) to make sure we are on time each lecture. Today we arrived at Wichester around 9:20 which was rather like a ghost town as nobody was around. However we were not frightened by this and decided to go and sit in the cafe to pass some time. As the clock ticked and time passed us by we headed off on a trek to find our Law lecture which was based somewhere called 'the Bower building'. After a number of phone calls and texts we found our room (and a scared couple of colleagues gazing nervously at the door) where we pitched for around 10 minutes fearfull that the lecture had began and we were already crossing the line of the Chris Horris rule book, 'not to be a minute late'. Eventualy we all built up the courage to knock on the door with our only excuse of 'we got lost'. The reception we endured was far from what we expected as we walked in to laughter as we asked Chris if we were due to start at 10am in which he replied 'well probably' and from then on the lesson was a bundle of laughter with some serious basic law added in!

A review of 'the girl that ate bricks' - The Sun
This story featured in The Sun tabloid newspaper is a story that will be remembered by Chris's Journalism group for a long time as it appeared to amuse him enourmously and was referenced throughout the whole lecture. This young girl would have given consent to the Journalists as she has 'the right to privacy' as stated in section 8 of the Human Rights Act. The 'free press' do have to keep the stories honest to prevent anyone accusing them of lying and going against 'the right to privacy'. This would be known as a non- indictable offence (less than 5 years imprisonment which in my opinion would be anyone's choice if they had one) at the Magistrates Court where all crime begins. However Journalists are allowed to state opinions, but need to be precise with the evidence that they have to back them up. For instance looking at this article from a Journalist persepctive, the little girl does not literally eat full rock hard bricks (as I am sure she would no longer have any teeth left to eat with) but instead eats a brick powder which to a Journalist is basically a brick as it is what a brick is made from! This means that the article is reliable and can be backed up by a Journalist as they have literally not made up this information used to amuse readers (and our Law lecture). The image that links to this story will be taken literally by the silly readers that take no notice of the Journalists and their traps as they will believe that this young child sits at her dinner table, tongue out ready to enjoy the delicious brick that can fit on her plate (not realising the secrets of photoshop that tricks the nation regularly) It is safe to say that no one was taken to court for this particular article which means that it must be true! But it will certainly be a story that will catch the readers eye (as all we are interested in these days are celebrities and people's 'interesting lives' which can provide us with humour. Overall a successful story for The Sun and their journalists as if anything it has inspired me to write this blog! :D