Neither interesting to the public nor in the public interest

Why would a newspaper which wants to be taken seriously waste its front page lead on a story about someone most people don’t know?

A politician’s private life might be fair game, that of their families generally isn’t.

If this storyis of itnerest to the public, they need to get lives. It’s certainly not in the public interest.

I’m deliberately not using names nor am I making a link. The purpose of this post is to criticise the paper not to give more unwanted publicity to the story and the people who feature in it.