Say it ain't so!
"Here you have a man who takes drugs and gets locked up - yet ends up on the front pages," said Mr Howard.The strange thing about this outburst, thankfully said at a press conference rather than in a letter to the British people, is that Howard clearly hasn't read any of the coverage of Doherty's misdemeanours. If he had I'm not sure he would have thought the coverage was in anyway positive.
THe reason all the coverage started, and the only time it was generally positive was not due to his imprisonment or his drug-taking, but to Doherty's dating Kate Moss. There indeed might be a poor role model for your children, but I don't think even Michael Howard is going to get the tabloids to leave her off their front pages.