Paedophiles, Megan's Law, Susan's Law and 'popular' press

It's time for a rant! The News of the World, a news(?) paper is running a campaign to have the addresses of child sex offenders published, so that people can know if there's one living near them.

I've got two views:
[1] In a drumming community to which I belong, one person's name keeps popping up as "He's been convicted twice at 'X' court for child sex offences". I've tried to verify - or refute - this, and would find a searchable database of offenders useful. However, it's not really any of my business, and I'm not a concerned parent, so my reasons are mainly selfish and purely born of curiosity/nosiness/a vague sense of injustice.

[2] Most child abuse is done by people the child knows; people in the child's family. But the campaign by this rag is to target non-family sex offenders.

Papers like this are written and edited by articulate, erudite, educated men and women who use short snappy words to translate complex ideas into simplistic "These are the people we want you to hate this week" sloganeering to whip up what becomes a rabble if it wasn't before. It's almost the opposite of a previous 'keep the masses down' technique 'Bread and Circuses' (feed 'em badly but take their minds off it with distractions).

Show them rich pampered people to make them *want* more, then give them someone to hate people whose fault it is that they haven't *got* more!

It's a moving/revolving target: single mothers, blacks, immigrants, asylum seekers, paedophiles . . .

Even when the poor, whipped up mob, who can't spell the difference between paedophile and paediatrician, *do* gather outside an 'outed' offender's door,

statistically there'll be more child sex offenders outside the house than inside.

But you're not going to sell many papers with headlines like "We know that one in four of you molests children in your own family - and we know where you live!", are you?