Summarizing a Guardian article related to my career

Patricia Hewitt is a former Health Secretary in the UK. Her son, Nicholas Birtles, was charged with possession of cocaine on September 21st. The situation was obviously too ironic and the English newspaper “The Sun” couldn’t let it pass and titled its edition with the headline “Hewitt’s son in coke bust”. Hewitt felt that the publication was unfair and disproportionate, because it wouldn’t have been in the front-page of The Sun if it hadn’t been about the son of two public figures, she as a former Health Secretary and her husband as a judge. So she decided to complain with the Press Complaints Commission (PCC), arguing that The Sun’s editorial line was unequal and the publication invaded her son’s privacy. The PCC said: no, it didn’t. Crimes are not private issues but public offenses, and, by the way, Hewitt’s son is an adult. And there were no valid objections against the importance that the newspaper gave to the whole thing: it can decide where to put the article, whether on the front or at the back, and the public condition of Hewitt was enough reason to justify The Sun’s headline. Hewitt argued that she didn’t work on drugs matters during her charge as Health Secretary, but well, I think that there is no newspaper that can resist publishing a title like “Health Secretary’s son is in love with unhealthy, hard drugs”. Being a public figure involves some risks.

The article's link: http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/nov/27/pcc-patricia-hewitt-the-sun