Tea Does Not Give You Cancer, Probably
THE Daily Express loves a cup of tea. It loves tea so much that it loves writing about the stuff. In every bag, an article is brewed. Today, readers are told:
“We’re mugs to throw away £100m of tea”
The call is for smaller cups. MacGuffin looks at how tea has become the story the Express uses to plug those gaps between Madeleine McCann insights:
On Saturday, the Express front page was a typically inept, news-free zone and even included the word ‘TAT’ spelt out down the left hand side. How very appropriate. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted: 10th, November 2009 | In: Media | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
In Pictures: Rihanna’s Nipples Present Glamour Magazine’s Women Of The Year
ANORAK’S Man in New York was at The 2009 Women of the Year hosted by Glamour Magazine at Carnegie Hall, NY. Also ether were such woman of substance as Rihanna, Serena Williams, Steven Tyler, Andie MacDowell and Rainey Qualley, Anna Chlumsky, Lisa Ling, Amanda Righetti – pause; fans face with hand- Padma Lakshmi, Iman, Stephanie March, Maria Shriver, Katharine McPhee and Estelle.
The top women of the year are the singer Rihanna, for services to getting beaten up and showing your nipples – and Michelle Obama, for being married to Barack Obama, who defeated Hillary Clinton to become president of the world in a fight where racism was defeated by misogyny. The other top women are all given pithy bios:
Posted: 10th, November 2009 | In: Media | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Geisy Arruda And Brazil’s War On The Mini Skirt, Video
THAT’S Brazilian student Geisy Arruda, aged 20, being heckled and roughed-up by students at Sao Paulo’s Bandeirante University for the heinous crime of going equipped in a mini skirt.
This is a big deal in Brazil, home of the prude. So big is the issue that as students chanted “whore” police coved Ms Arruda in a big white coat and spirited her away.
The university then expelled her for a “flagrant lack of respect for ethical principles, academic dignity and morality”.
Posted: 9th, November 2009 | In: Media | Comment (1) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Virginia Imam Anwar Al-Awlaki Hails The ‘Hero’ Nidal Hasan’s Lap-Dances For Allah
IMAM Anwar Al-Awlaki says “Nidal Hassan is a hero”. Not that we know whay he murdered 13 people. Still, here’s an expert - and before we get to him, know this:
Hasan, who was born in Virginia and whose parents emigrated from Palestine, attended a Falls Church, Va., mosque when Awlaki was an imam there, the Associated Press reported.
Here’s Anwar Al-Awlaki, using the murder of 13 people and Nidal Hasan to support his vested interest:
He is a man of conscience who could not bear living the contradiction of being a Muslim and serving in an army that is fighting against his own people. This is a contradiction that many Muslims brush aside and just pretend that it doesn’t exist. Any decent Muslim cannot live, understanding properly his duties towards his Creator and his fellow Muslims, and yet serve as a US soldier. The US is leading the war against terrorism which in reality is a war against Islam. Its army is directly invading two Muslim countries and indirectly occupying the rest through its stooges.
Posted: 9th, November 2009 | In: Key Posts, Media | Comments (28) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Using Nidal Hasan’s Duane To Comfirm Your Own Prejudices
MUSLIMS: what’s your prejudice? The BBC’s Gavin Lee visits mass murdered Major Nidal Hasan’s mosque and meets someone called “Duane”. Duane has no pity for the murdered and sympathises with Nidal. Anyone who wants to know why Nidal did it, can find out here.
Here’s the transcript of a chat with Duane, who might be the chatty Duane Reasoner Jnr (more nominative determinism, folks) who opined:
“He said he should quit the Army,” Mr. Reasoner said. “In the Koran, you’re not supposed to have alliances with Jews or Christian or others, and if you are killed in the military fighting against Muslims, you will go to hell.”
Duane: I’m not going to condemn him for what he did. I don’t know why he did it. I will not, absolutely not, condemn him for what he had done though. If he had done it for selfish reasons I still will not condemn him. He’s my brother in the end. I will never condemn him.
Posted: 9th, November 2009 | In: Media | Comments (3) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Tabloid Awards: Kate Moss Wins Euro Millions Jackpot
THE Tabloid Award for the most tangential use of a celebrity to illustrate a story goes to the Sun, where Chris Evans and Kate Moss feature in the story of two Britons who won shares of the £91m Euro Millions jackpot. The headline and story:
“’EVANS..IT’S US”.
TWO Brits yesterday came forward to claim Friday’s £91million EuroMillions jackpot - making them richer than Chris Evans or Kate Moss. They each net £45.5million, smashing the UK Lotto payout record.
Posted: 9th, November 2009 | In: Media | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Major Nidal Malik Hasan Discusses The Fort Hood Incident With Peter Cook
MAJOR Nidal Malik Hasan discusses the attack on Fort Hood in which he murdered 13 people with Peter Cook and the Beyond The Fringe investigative team. It’s what the US military is calling: The Fort Hood Incident:
Read the Ten Craziest Reasons Why Nidal Hasan killed 13 people here.
Posted: 9th, November 2009 | In: Media | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Margaret Thatcher Presents The Biggest Poppy Day Poppies
ARE poppies getting bigger? As you know Anorak has been promoting No Poppy Day in Afghanistan – a time to turn our back on drugs.
Back at home, poppies are being worn on football kits. And poppies are getting bigger. Poppy Day is a time that unites the country in respect for people who fought for freedom. The Last Post is a note that can prick the tears.
But those poppies. It’s getting ostentatious…
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Posted: 8th, November 2009 | In: Media | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Detective James Arthur Ray Investigates Sedona
JAMES Arthur Ray: Anorak’s Man by the Sedona sweat lodge sees James Arthur Ray put pen to paper:
NEW Age guru, motivational speaker, and Spiritual Warrior James Arthur Ray isn’t stopping his crusade for the truth.
No indeed.
Not until all the facts are known about that fatal October 8th sweat lodge over which he presided.
You know the which one we’re talking about, right? The one that left three people dead and 18 others in the hospital?
Posted: 8th, November 2009 | In: Media | Comments (5) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
The Ten Craziest Reasons Why Nidal Malik Hasan Did It
TEN Reasons Why Nidal Hassan did It. As he saluted anyone in sight with two loaded handguns, Major Nidal Malik Hasan yelled “Allah Wakbar!” – God is great!” He then opened fire and murdered 13 people. Major Nidal Malik Hasan is now in a coma.
Want to know whay he did it? Here are the Top Ten Craziest Reasons:
The Typical American Fame-Hungry Gun Nutter
For a few hours late on Thursday, it seemed this would follow the usual sad script of shooting tragedies in America. The “monster” assailant would turn the weapon on himself or be instantly gunned down by others.
Only he didn’t. He kept shooting until he was shot.
1) Compassion Fatigue
Dr. Robin Kerner, an attending psychologist who specializes in disaster anxiety at St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital in New York City, said it’s not uncommon for individuals who work with traumatized patients to suffer the effects of “compassion fatigue.”
“This guy was counseling people coming back from war and there is something called secondary traumatization, where the therapist gets traumatized from hearing all the terrible things that have happened to the people they counsel.”
2) He Had Been Beheaded
Posted: 8th, November 2009 | In: Key Posts, Media | Comments (9) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Nidal Malik Hasan’s Clothing Trained in Canada
WHEN you hear that Nidal Malik Hasan is a Muslim, what do you think? If you’re a Muslim you probably thought “Oh f***”. If you’re in the media you might have thought of any number of reasons why he killed 13. Here are 10.
If you want to see him not as a mass murderer but only as a Muslim, you write something like this:
After the sickening news of yesterday when a Muslim American soldier’s clothing brazenly opened fire into a crowd of other American soldiers and citizens, killing at least 13 and wounding nearly 30 very innocent non-Muslim American citizens I’m ready for some GOOD CHANGE.
Posted: 7th, November 2009 | In: Media | Comment (1) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Katie Price’s Burning Sensation X Factor Presents The Week In Pictures
WHAT a week that was, folks. We saw Gary Glitter’s Halloween costume, a man was beaten to death on the telly for our entertainment, The Cheeky Girls encouraged thoughts of them mating with X Factor’s Jedward and creating a new breed of horror, Madonna sanitized Africa, police arrested West Ham, Stephen Fry fans pretending to be actors, had a strop on Twitter, X Factor agonist Danyl Johnson was beaten by Hitler, giving us another reason to hate Danyl with a Y, Marlon King was branded a typical footballer, you got to cover your cat’s anus with a glitter ball, Muslims laughed at Muslims, Ollie Murs reminded us of them, Iggy Pop, Muhammad reminded us of corduroy bodysuits, starred in a film as John Travolta, we blamed the Muslims for Madeleine McCann, Al Gore became a God, Daily Mail readers came out in favour of Sharia LawNazis and , we learnt that a virus can wear bovver boots, was burnt as a bitch, Katie PriceSusan Boyle was our transsexual Jesus, Lindsay Lohan died, almost, Ringo Starr became something funny in the water, we saw the Carrie Prejean sex tape, Katie and Peter got back together, we enjoyed blood porn, Sharon Osbourne presented her hairy arsehole, Jedward reviewed their novelty record collection, Elizabeth LambertBeyonce made us watch women’s football- and it was good, showed us her knickers and Nidal Malik Hasan became a victim as he murdered 13 people.
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Posted: 7th, November 2009 | In: Key Posts, Media | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Somali Rebels Ban Ringtones, Like Captain Pugwash
MORE from those Somali gameshow fantatics and breast enthusiasts of al Shabaab - not Muslim:
Sacdiyo Sheeq used to love listening to Bollywood movie songs on her mobile telephone.
But since hardline al Shabaab insurgents seized the southern Somali port of Kismayu, the 25-year-old’s life has changed.
“Al Shabaab wants our ringtones to be only a Muslim cleric reading the Hadith or Koranic verse,” she told Reuters.
“I used to listen to my favorite Indian songs on my cell phone, but now I have just thrown that memory away.”
Posted: 7th, November 2009 | In: Media | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
US Forced Fort Hood Murderer Nidal Hasan To Join The Army
A READER writes on Nidal Hasan, who murdered 13 people at the Fort Hood Army base, Texas.
MY brother Joe, out in Oregon, and called me this morning to talk about the shooting. A quick background on Joe, career military officer in the Army, served in Vietnam, and retired after 25 years in.
He said ‘to use your favouite expression this was a royal fuck up by the Military and Military Intelligence!’
1) Hasan joined the military to get his education paid for and thus owed them years of service. He had made it very plain in writing many times to the military he was a conscientious objector and speaking out very much against the war and and had fear of going over. He even offered to pay back the military what his education cost them.
They refused to release him, Paul, even knowing his claim of being a CO and very much against the War.
2) He had several bad reviews - what did they do? Promote him!
3) He was being harrassedby other military personnel re being a Muslim and reported that - they did nothing.
Posted: 7th, November 2009 | In: Media | Comments (7) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Hasan Nidal Triggers A War On Islam
HASAN Nidal, the Fort Hood mass murderer, dominates the news and the newswires. You can read our round-up here.
Is Nidal Hasan a jihadi or a nutter, or both? The press is uncertain, each writer going with their own prejudices. Sky News says as a psychiatrist Nidal would have heard lots of harrowing stories from returning soldiers and may have been sent mad. He’s the victim?
A man who murders 12 people is only one thing: a mass murderer.
While religion and politics merge into a bloody mess, The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the US’s largest Muslim civil liberties and advocacy organization, is to hold a news conference tonight at its Capitol Hill headquarters in reaction to the attack at Fort Hood.
At the news conference, American Muslim leaders will reiterate their condemnation of the shootings and urge calm as the nation reacts to today’s tragic events.
Meanwhile, back in Britain, the Sun delivers this front-page news: “HE WAS THE DADDY – Pregnant Muslim bride salutes her dead hero husband”.
Inside: “Our son will never know his dad but he will know his legacy.”
The Sun gets it right. While no news organisation focusing on any of the 12 murdered US soldiers, with all eyes on their murderer and speculation as to his motives, the Sun looks at a victim. Death in the news is delivered in numbers but it only when we see one life taken that readers can relate to it:
THE wife of massacred soldier Darren Chant yesterday revealed he was due to be a father again. Muslim Nausheen, 30, is six months pregnant.
Chant and four other soldiers was murdered by 26-year-old Gulbuddin – a Afghan police officer who was shot in the leg but remains at large.
But how relevant is Mrs Chant’s religion?
The widow, who is a non-practising Muslim, said: “Our unborn son will never meet his father. But he will know him through his legacy.”
But to the Sun she is “Muslim”. It’s front-page news. But there is no war on Islam. That is what the enemy wants you to believe. There is a war on the Taliban in Afghanistan. There is a war on Al Qaeda in Iraq. Is either group a friend to Islam, or typical of Muslims? Only a fool or bigot would answer “yes”.
Mrs chant’s private grief is in the public sphere. But should religion have any factor in the story? The biggest outrage is hidden later in the article:
His mum Elizabeth, 59, told how he would bark at Prince Harry on parade: “Get your legs up, Windsor!” She tearfully accused the PM of betraying Our Boys, raging: “My son said Afghanistan was a living hell. They need more of everything, more equipment, more troops, more rifles and more clothes and boots which fit properly.“
We send our solders – white, black, Asian, Christian, Jew or Muslim - to fight ill equipped for battle. That is the outrage.
Madeleine McCann: Let’s Blame The Muslims
Posted: 6th, November 2009 | In: Media | Comments (2) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Hurrah For The Blackshirts: Daily Mail Bemoans British Kids’ Ignorance Of War
A SURVEY says that one in six between the ages of nine and 15 believe Auschwitz was a Second World War theme park and one in 20 say the Holocaust was a celebration at the end of the war. They are only partly right.
These are the kind of facts tabloids love. And the Daily Mail’s readers use it to have their prejudices confirmed:
* Labour teachers trying to change history.
* But I bet they can tell answer the really important questions such as who is in the final of X Factor, all about David Beckhams latest tattoo, or what Katie said to Peter. What can you expect? Just about sums this country up doesn’t it?
* Were the questions written? If so it’s probable that at least half the children involved couldn’t read the questions.
Posted: 5th, November 2009 | In: Media | Comments (4) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Fort Hood Shootings Latest News: US Soldier Nidal Hasan Shoots 13 Dead
IN the Soldier Readiness Centre Fort Hood, Texas, 13 are shot dead and 31 are wounded. Nidal Hasan is captured. The news:
At least eight people have been shot in an Orlando, Florida, high-rise office building, CNN affiliates report.
As Chelsy say: “Here we go, now we will be getting a rash of shootings”
Woman saves: Kim Munley, a civilian police officer, is the woman who brought Hasan down by shooting him four times before he could murder more.
Woman killed: Chicago - FOX Chicago News has learned that a 21-year-old pregnant woman from the Northwest Side of Chicago was killed in the Fort Hood shooting spree Thursday.
Francheska Velez, a 2006 graduate of Kelvyn Park, recently had returned from a tour of duty in Iraq.
Reader Cheryl writes: The military/government over here never stops with its deceiving and coverups. Six and a half hours they let the press and hence the public believe the shooter was dead! You two know how reporters would think and react when deliberately led to believe and write wrong information and made look the fools six and a half hours later. Guess the Government and military officials needed those 6 1/2 hours to get their stories straight about what was known or not known about the Major! Now the CNN news is talking about the Major was on the ‘radar’ to be watched over the last months for some blogs or other stuff he had written about suicide bombing, his intense dislike for the Iraqi War, he wasn’t going over, etc, etc. etc. CNN with Larry King and Anderson Cooper are far from happy being deceived.
Tim Blair: The evasiveness of media in the immediate wake of the Fort Hood murders is astonishing. The ABC’s Lisa Millar opened her midday report claiming to have “learned quite a lot about the gunman”, then revealed very little of it – apart from that Malik Nadal Hasan had “attracted a lot of harassment because of his last name” and “family background”. This came about, Millar reported, despite Hasan being born and raised in the US. Not mentioned in eight minutes of coverage: Hasan’s faith, which in a case like this is surely of interest.
Posted: 5th, November 2009 | In: Key Posts, Media | Comments (17) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Flexetarians Are Meat-Eating Vegetarians
IN the forums, Yampster writes of the rise of the Flexetarians -”Coined to describe Vegetarians who ermmmm eat meat”
I am a baconsarniarian. I prefer to eat bacon sarnies. If there are no bacon sarnies available I will eat other meats and occasionally, some vegetables. Purely for health reasons of course
Q. What is the best thing to put on a Bacon Sarnie
A. More bacon
Anorak for media-lovers who hate the media
Creme Betweens Present More Smutty Food Names
Posted: 5th, November 2009 | In: Media | Comments (13) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
True Blood Porn, Oral Sex And Vampire Orgies, In Pictures
THE Mail’s latest ‘ban this sick filth’-type article comes in the form of a rant against HBO vampire series True Blood. Olivia Lichtenstein - who else? - writes:
True Blood is a shocking tale of depravity, explicit sexuality (bordering on pornography) and vile language.
Even before the opening credits have rolled in the first episode, we see a young woman pleasuring a young man while driving her car.
That’s just before a picture of the two leads having sex. Just so you can see how depraved it is.
Posted: 5th, November 2009 | In: Key Posts, Media | Comments (7) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Shannon Matthews Returns As Aunt Is Jailed
NO sooner has Our Maddie risen to prominence once more than Shannon Matthews is sought and found. Amanda Hyett is at Leeds Crown Court. She is a neighbour of abducted schoolgirl Shannon Matthews. She now neighbour of Karen Matthews, having been jailed for illegally claiming £35,885 in income support and housing benefit.
Hyett is also niece to Michael Donovan, in whose home Shannon was located. Hyett is also the sister of Karen Matthews’ ex-lover, Craig Meehan.
Karen Matthews and Michael Donovan are each into an eight year sentence in for kidnap, false imprisonment and perverting the course of justice.
Shannon Matthews has yet to come of age and write a book or appear in a one-and-one with Jeremy Kyle.
spotter: June
Posted: 5th, November 2009 | In: Media | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
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