Stop sex ads in our papers, union will tell publishers

Roger Butler, Swansea, told how the South Wales Echo had exposed the rape and beating of women who had been trafficked to work in Cardiff massage parlours.

But the issue in which the report was published also carried adverts for three of the places it named.

He was calling on the NEC to ask publishers not to carry adverts for establishments where sex is sold.

Martin Shipton, Wales EC, said publisher Trinity Mirror had first said it would accept any advert unless it could be proved it should not.

But after a researcher for a Welsh Assembly member sent it the “filth” received from 20 advertisers, it stopped taking the adverts.

Marilyn Kemeny, Cardiff, urged NUJ chapels to ask their editors not to carry such advertising.

 

 

 

The Journalist is published by the National Union of Journalists