Biritish celebrityworld is rocking with the news that Gabby Logan is not cheating on her husband! Yes, the papers have confirmed the story and Gabby is not having an affair with Alan Shearer! I don't know about anyone else but this may quite possibly be the biggest, most important news since David Beckham wasn't injured in car crash that wasn't his fault!
Yep, 10 points to the cynics. Gabby Logan shouldn't need to defend her marriage because it makes no difference to me. It is not news, quite simple really. Whoever is having the affair she's been blamed for shouldn't be hiding behind a super injunction because I'm pretty sure none of us really care. Ironically, the only people it may actually affect, i.e. their families, could still be told by the journalists if they felt it that important, but in reality super injunctions are (usually) about non-newsworthy stories. I don't care if Alan Shearer regularly crumbles bourbon biscuits on Gabby Logan's body and sucks the mess up through a toothpaste tube, push comes to shove it is pretty meaningless.
I'm not saying that there is never anything newsworthy in affairs, Profumo proved nicely that there is merit to some reports on people's private lives, but by and large? No! The papers can take a pious ground that injunctions are causing Ms Logan to defend herself but here's a newsflash; she's only having to defend herself because the newspapers have been so eager to publish a fairly pointless sex scandal, and then they kicked up a fuss because they weren't allowed to crying freedom of speech.
With freedom of speech comes a responsibility to watch what you say. Perhaps the poor laws being set by super injunctions are a side-effect of some news agencies forgetting the second part.