` ::::::Nobody is suggesting he be referred to in the article as a ``pedo`` - which is just short for/slang for pedophile. Multiple reliable (non-tabloid) sources refer to him as a pedophile. What reliable sources support your claim that the term pedophile is being ``increasingly misused by the media to refer to a type of criminal`` and that it is being misused to refer to Ian Watkins? How exactly is it being misused? How does it not apply to Ian Watkins?  😜 `