Taking another stab at the Press Complaints Commission over the Daily Mail

My first complaint to the PCC over the Mail Stephen Gately article seemed to be sent into that organisation's wastebasket. I received a reply saying "initial examination" showed that my complaint was probably invalid because I was unrelated to Stephen Gately or his family.

I was absolutely incensed by this reply. The reply was received one minute after I sent the complaint on a Saturday evening. Any "initial examination" must have been conducted by a robot within a few nanu seconds.

How the heck did they know that the complaint was even related to an invasion into the grief of the Gately family, instead of the myriad of other offensive material in and, issues raised by, the article?

Anyway, I have now sent in another complaint. This time I have side-stepped their nonsense about not being related to the Gately family by complaining about two articles of their Code of Conduct not related to intrusion into grief:

1
Accuracy
i) The Press must take care not to publish inaccurate, misleading or distorted information, including pictures.
12
Discrimination
i) The press must avoid prejudicial or pejorative reference to an individual's race, colour, religion, gender, sexual orientation or to any physical or mental illness or disability.

My second complaint reads:

Under article 1, (i) this article is totally misleading, using a distorted and highly selective collection of hearsay to come to a disgustingly offensive conclusion based on a person's sexual orientation.
Under 12 (i) this article is, in its entirety, a pejorative attack on gay relationships based on an extremely exaggerated and vilely distorted appraisal of the circumstances of Stephen Gately's death.

I am now writing to the Editor of the Mail to ask him to withdraw the article and apologise for it.