Blog exposes the truth

Stuff ran this Reuters story about a 16 year old girl in the UK who is going to go to court to overturn a school ban on her wearing the ring at school.

Now there is only an obscure reference to the fact that:

Lydia Playfoot’s parents help run the British arm of the American campaign group the Silver Ring Thing, which promotes abstinence among young people.

The Ministry of Truth blog explores this in great detail and highlights the commercial involvement and motivation of her parents. One goes away with an entirely different picture to that which you would get from the news story alone.

It would be nice if someone in the media did the same amount of research as the blogger did.

Hat Tip; Iain Dale