Madeleine McCann: An Apology For Journalism, Desmond’s Reputation And Greenslade Scores
MADDIE WATCH - Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann, Kate McCann and Gerry McCann
DAILY STAR: “’THE TAPAS SEVEN‘” - AN APOLOGY
The Sangria Seven, surely. Or the Tapas 9 (what happened to them?). But what of this latest apology? Ahem..:
In articles published in September and November last year we suggested that the holiday companions of Kate and Gerry McCann might have covered up the true facts concerning Madeleine McCann’s disappearance and/or misled the authorities investigating her disappearance.
Yes…
Posted: 16th, October 2008 | In: Broadsheets, Madeleine McCann, Media, Tabloids | Comments (359) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
It’s 2030 And The World Looks Like This
IT’S 2030 and the Scotsman exists as a free pamphlet given out at King’s Cross station and churches in the area.
What else of 2030? “It’s…
“…A chilling world where licences are required for having children and questioning global warming is a crime could be ushered in by climate change”.
Why wait. Bring it on.
The scenario is one of five potential responses to climate change described by a panel of 60 experts in the study by Forum for the Future, a sustainable development group.
Not sure if we get a vote on which world we want, but know that the “five possible futures for mankind are”:
Posted: 15th, October 2008 | In: Broadsheets, Global Warming, Media | Comments (4) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
CREDIT Crunch news of the day: Simon Jenkins lets the poor eat words…
Yes, some people are poor and some are out of work, but not everyone; not even a majority. Keynes was right. The most important thing in a recession is for those with money to keep spending it. Those without can cite Aquinas and remember that the best things in life are free.
Talk is cheap. The Times costs 80p. Anorak is free…
Posted: 14th, October 2008 | In: Broadsheets, Media | Comments (10) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
The BNP Guardian Wants British Coffee For British Coffee Drinkers
EXCUSE me. Yes, you with the “our” watery Starbucks coffee, the fair trade sugar and look of understanding.
The Guardian would like to garner your thoughts on the BNP.
“Does the BNP speak for you?”
You put down your white (guilt) coffee and look at the canvasser’s laptop. You click through to politic-poll.com. and see a picture of BNP leader Nick Griffin.
Posted: 14th, October 2008 | In: Broadsheets, Madeleine McCann, Media | Comments (148) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Ken Livingstone’s Animal Sex With Adam Boulton
TO yesterday’s Turn The Tables event, when politicos get the chance to turn the tables on hacks.
Ken Livingstone, former London mayor and still former London mayor, turns to Sky New’s political editor Adam Boulton and asks:
“Have you ever had sex with an animal?”
Boulton declined to comment, forgoing the obvious answers:
Is that an offer? Read the rest of this entry »
Posted: 14th, October 2008 | In: Broadsheets, Politicians | Comment (1) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Madeleine McCann Gives Lives Meaning And Worth
MADDIE WATCH - Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann, Kate McCann and Gerry McCann
INTERNATIONAL HERLAD TRIUBIUNE (France): “Billionaire retailer Green shops for a bargain”
Mark Pootter says Philip Green is on the hunt for a knock-down-once-in-a-lifetime- I’m-cuttin’-me-own-throat-guv’nor-honest-to-goodness bargain.
And who is Philip Green? Why…:
Posted: 13th, October 2008 | In: Broadsheets, Madeleine McCann, Media | Comments (253) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Not In My Back Yard: WWF Conservationist Cuts Down Trees And Flies
CONSERVATIONISTS. They prowl the planet by (see below), minibus and boat to tell you what to do. And when they get home, as the Sydney Morning Herald notes:
THE wife of a convener of the Australian Conservation Foundation is being charged with the alleged removal of 150 trees on the couple’s Blue Mountains property.
Posted: 12th, October 2008 | In: Broadsheets, Global Warming, Police Log, Strange But True | Comments (4) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
The thieving plonkers!
We’re back to those default swaps again, and the reason why they have nothing to do with insurance and everything to do with speculating on other people’s property; Simon Evans in the Independent reports today, the 12th October:
‘It is like Joe Public buying an insurance policy on someone else’s house and pocketing the full value if it burns down.’
Ring any bells?
On the 25th September I wrote:
‘Anorak could take out a vast insurance policy on Anorak Towers, and if it burned down Anorak would get lots of dosh but no Anorak Towers.
Insurers won’t let me take out a vast insurance policy on Anorak Towers, because I would have a clear interest in setting fire to Anorak Towers and collecting lots of dosh.
Of course, I wouldn’t have Anorak Towers, but then I didn’t have Anorak Towers in the first place.’
My highly reputable lawyers, Messrs Sue, Sue and Suesomemore, will no doubt be in touch with the Indie’s briefs…
- Chenier
Posted: 12th, October 2008 | In: Broadsheets, Money, Twitterings | Comments (4) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Guardian Follows Daily Express And Tips IceSave
ICESAVE is dead. Britain is at war with Iceland. And the Guardain is scoring points on the Express, its pet target:
“If you are lucky enough to have some spare money, now could be the time to cash in,” said the ever-informative Daily Express, addressing the credit crunch yesterday. “Icelandic bank Icesave pays 7.06% on £1,000 or more on its one-year bond.” Yeah, right - October 8, 2008
Ten of the best … savings accounts
An unexpected bonus from the financial crisis is banks raising their savings rates to attract customer cash. Harvey Jones picks a selection of the best buys on offer
Hear ye, hear ye… Any idea what’s No.1?
Posted: 11th, October 2008 | In: Broadsheets, Money, Tabloids | Comment (1) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Madeleine McCann And The Dawn Of Creationism
MADDIE WATCH - Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann, Kate McCann and Gerry McCann
In the beginning was the word. And the word was “Maddie”…
THE INDEPENDENT: “Religion vs science: can the divide between God and rationality be reconciled?”
And on the eighth day the media was created and Our Maddie did come to the fore…
‘A clergyman in charge of education for the country’s leading scientific organisation – it’s a Monty Python sketch,” pronounced Britain’s top atheist, Richard Dawkins, recently. The problem was that Reiss, as well as being an evolutionary biologist and population geneticist, is a non-stipendiary priest in the Church of England.
Still dunno.
Posted: 11th, October 2008 | In: Broadsheets, Madeleine McCann, Media | Comments (55) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Gabby Logan Applauds The Credit Crunch
CREDIT Crunch news of the day: Gabby Logan on the joys of poverty
“But I believe that the credit squeeze is going to be good for grassroots sport and therefore good for all of us in the long run – as long as we do not end up homeless” – Gabby Logan, The Times
So Gabby…:
Aside from a property, what’s the most expensive thing you’ve ever bought?
Paintings - the most I’ve spent on one was £7,000.
More credit crunch insight as it comes in…
Posted: 10th, October 2008 | In: Broadsheets, Credit Crunch, Money | Comments (5) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
JAMIE Oliver takes time out from telling fat football fans oop north to eat well and tells us:
“In the old days I used to get the knickers and the bras. It was good. Filth whispered in me ears.
“He’s a w***er” (Times.
They’re just bored of me now. I’m just that geezer who keeps, you know, doing these worthy things around the country.”
Like shoving it down people’s throats…
Posted: 9th, October 2008 | In: Broadsheets, Celebrities, Food & Fat, Jamie Oliver | Comments (15) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Armageddon On Hold As Blue Collars Take Over
ARMAGEDDON is on hold.
The four horsemen of the apocalypse (Short Sellers; Bradford, Bingley, Daryl Lehman) are staved off with the promise of cash. It’s a bribe, and – who knew? - but the forces of man’s destruction are open to cash offers.
Still, the Times asks its readers: “Is this the safest place to put your money?” There picture is of a man pushing a large box cardboard out of book shop. The box is on trolley. The man is in shirt and Comfi-Slax.
Posted: 9th, October 2008 | In: Broadsheets, Money, Tabloids | Comments (5) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Iranian Militants And Danes Try To Be As Funny As The Jews
IRANIANS are chanting “Death to Israel”. Borrringggggg. Can they get a new chant, one that rhymes?
Well, not all of them are chanting, just the Islamist students who are unveiling a new book.
The book “Holocaust,” published by members of Iran’s Islamist Basij militia, features dozens of cartoons and sarcastic commentary. Education Minister Alireza Ali-Ahmadi attended the official launch of the book in Tehran’s Palestine Square.
The Telegraph , which reports on the action, doesn’t say how much the book sells for, nor if it can be ordered online.
Posted: 7th, October 2008 | In: Broadsheets, War On Terror | Comments (6) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
UK Farms Human Livers, Germany Harvest Funny Bones
IF you could choose a liver door from any country on Earth, which nation would you harvest organs from?
Those living on the Japanese island of Okinawa, the small Sardinian mountain town of Ovodda and Loma Linda in the US are the world’s longest living. So any of them would be top of most people’s lists.
So listen up as David Mayer, chairman of UK Transplant’s Liver Advisory Group, says:
“If we were to provide livers for the world from the UK, then UK patients would be enormously disadvantaged.”
Well, yes. We would have no livers, ours being a nation of some 60million, and the rest of the world having far more bodies to fill with offal. And what with our binge drinking, you’d think the demand just wouldn’t be there. The UK as the world’s liver farming would be like the Germans farming funny bones.
But here’s Professor Nigel Heaton, head of the transplant unit at King’s College Hospital, London, transplanting part of an adult British liver into a boy from one of the Gulf states.
Posted: 5th, October 2008 | In: Broadsheets | Comments (6) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
ROD Liddle and Giles Coren are two hacks who became the story: Liddle: affair. Coren: smug, over-exposed daddy’s boy. Liddle:
By and large our intellectuals live their lives entirely free of even the briefest consideration in the national press, which is far too busy with nonintellectuals such as Amy Winehouse, Jade Goody and Giles Coren.
And here they are illuminating a story about intellectuals. File under: celebrity journalism…
Posted: 5th, October 2008 | In: Broadsheets | Comment (1) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
ONE of the curiosities of news coverage is its seemingly one-way interest direction.
Australia’s second city, Melbourne, is caught up with the tale of it own missing 21-year-old backpacker. A Croatian police statement that they are “looking for a girl and not a body” headlines in all of today’s Oz newspapers.
Britt Lapthorne, above, went missing in Dubrovnik, Croatia on September 18. In the reverse of so many tales of Europeans missing/lost/murdered tales in Oz, her brother, Darren, and father, Dale, are now in the country desperately seeking clues to what has happened to their loved one, last seen in the city’s Fuego nightclub.
Croatian police say the son of the owner of the Dubrovnik hostel where Britt was staying was released after 36 hours of questioning but was not a formal suspect.
- AGW
Posted: 4th, October 2008 | In: Broadsheets, Twitterings | Comments (8) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Madeleine McCann: Paedos From Lamp-Posts, Hating Fiona Philips And JonBenet Ramsey
MADDIE WATCH - Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann, Kate McCann and Gerry McCann
QUEENSFERRY GAZETTE (Scotland): “We’ve been ad”
A CONCERNED mum has spoken out about the potential hazards posed by new outdoor advertising boards. Janette Sheppard is also worried that other parents may think the boards are simply lamp-posts.
Lamp-posts, for paedos to hide behind… Like those (G)litter bins…
She said: “These have just sprung up – one is outside my son’s primary school. At first glance it would be easy to mistake them for lamp-posts, but they are actually advertising boards.”
The wonders of modern technology. Who would have thunk it. Go on…
Posted: 4th, October 2008 | In: Broadsheets, Madeleine McCann, Tabloids | Comments (293) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Madeleine McCann, Rosemary West And The Fear Of Esther Rantzen
MADDIE WATCH - Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann, Kate McCann and Gerry McCann
THE TELEGRAPH: “Esther Rantzen: Fear of paedophiles is harming children”
Esther Rantzen has admitted she blames herself for raising fears of paedophiles to such a degree that adults are now scared to help crying children.
Rantzen! Last week the Telegraph brought us: “Baroness Neuberger: Children will grow up not trusting anyone in Britain’s risk-averse society”
Very soon everyone will be agreeing with this new premise, it being the way opinion is formed: one celebrity says something; another agrees; the media reports it as fact; all hacks agree; a woman in the Daily Mail says she disagrees; a reader says it’s “common sense gone mad”; a celebrity agrees; and so on and on…
The veteran broadcaster, who founded the counselling service ChildLine, warned that young people are now being harmed by the widespread suspicion that anyone who has contact with children could be a child abuser.
Well, they could be…
Posted: 3rd, October 2008 | In: Broadsheets, Madeleine McCann | Comments (162) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Sir Ian Blair is expected to announce his resignation as Metropolitan Police Commissioner this afternoon - and step out on the path to celebrity…
- Chenier
Sir Ian Blair Teaches Amy Winehouse To Dry Out
Ladies And Gentlemen, The Death Of Jean Charles De Menezes
Posted: 2nd, October 2008 | In: Broadsheets, Twitterings | Comments (6) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
