Buttocks and humbug

You could see it coming.   On Wednesday, Ofcom pronounced that no guidelines had been breached in the performances by Rihanna and Christina Aguilera on the X-Factor Final, before the watershed, on ITV.  And it took a side-swipe at the Daily Mail in its judgement, thus...

Approximately 2,000 of the 2,868 complaints about this programme were received following coverage about the performances in a daily national newspaper. The newspaper coverage reported on concerns that the performances were too explicit for a family programme, and included a number of still images of the performances. However, from a comparison of the images it is clear that the photographs that were published in the newspaper were significantly more graphic and close-up than the material that had been broadcast in the programme, and had been taken from a different angle to the television cameras. Readers of the newspaper would have therefore been left with the impression that the programme contained significantlymore graphic material than had actually been broadcast

So the Mail responds now with pictures taken from the actual video of the show, plus withering copy from  Michael Seamark and Liz Thomas ("This is what OFCOM calls 'acceptable'") - plus a box attack on Ofcom's Ed Richards, its chief executive  - sorry, that should read - "Blair crony boss on £380k a year".

Meanwhile, if you're short of women in provocative poses, try the watershed-free Mail Online for "Forgot your dress Christina? Burlesque star busts out of basque as she is inducted into Hollywood's Gay Walk of Fame" or "Nicole Scherzinger reveals her taut tummy in crop top as she films new music video"  or even "Mother-of-three Sarah Jessica Parker shows off her bikini body during a relaxing spa break".