Geeta Aulakh: Daily Mail Pushes The Asian Theory
GEETA Aulakh is dead. The mother of two young sons was found in the streets on Greenford, London. Her hand had been severed. She was unconscious. She died as a result of head injury. Any more facts? Well, she was an Anglo-Asian and that means the media can speculate:
Daily Mail: “Honour killing theory as mother-of-two is found dumped in the street with her hand severed”
Well it is a theory. There are others, which Mail readers can learn of a few paragraphs into the story:
Police are investigating several theories behind the murder, including jealousy, access to the children or bringing dishonour on the family.
Posted: 18th, November 2009 | In: Media | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Now Watch: Spotting Cases Of NOW… In The Tabloids
IN today’s edition of Now Watch - Anorak’s look at “NOW” in news headlines - the Daily Express shines a light on Ben Elton who dared to poke fun at our Queen and the Royal Mail - who may or may not have killed Princess Diana, as reported in the Daily Express for years and years and years …
Posted: 18th, November 2009 | In: Media | Comment (1) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
I’m A Celebrity: Jan Moir Is The Daily Mail’s Katie Price
I’M A Celebrity, With Jan Moir and Katie Price. Jan Moir, last seen trashing Stephen Gately in print, now has a turn on Katie Price. Reading the piece, Anorak cannot but help think that Moir has confused her private diary with her work.
Is she talking about Katie Price or herself? Let’s take a look:
Sweet kangaroo cutlets, what have we here? Katie Price back in the jungle again? I’m afraid so. I’m very, very afraid so. On Monday evening, the former topless model, sex pest, author and freshly divorced mother-of-three returned to I’m A Celebrity … Get Me Out Of Here!
That’s the pursed-lipped preamble, the diatribe equipped with one large colour picture of Katie in a bikini and in the shower for the newspaper and three pictures for web fans. Moir goes on:
Five years on from her first appearance in the reality show, shot on location in the Australian rainforest, Price is the first contestant to be invited to return.
It’s six years, Jan. Katie Price was on the show in 2003. Back to the professional writer:
Already she has reflected the, ahem, prestige and dignity of her jungle homecoming by wearing animal-print clothes that are tighter than anything the animals ever managed. She also thrashed around in a filthy swamp, washed her breasts in public and offered to give everyone a massage.
See pictures of tight clothes and much thrashing in the Daily Mail.
Posted: 18th, November 2009 | In: Key Posts, Media | Comments (3) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Michael Jackson: Even Chandler Dies And Jordan Chandler’s Testimony Resurfaces
MICHAEL Jackson Watch: Evan Chandler, father to Jordy Chandler, has killed himself.
The news round-up:
Daily Mail (front page): “Father of Jacko sex scandal boy kills himself”
As obituaries go, that’s not the most benign. Any facts?
I won’t confirm or deny anything,’ said Chandler’s brother, Raymond, a California lawyer.
Daily Mirror: “JACKO SEX CASE DAD IN SUICIDE”
Can a man’s suicide become a mystery?
The Sun: “Jordy’s dad dies in bed with a gunshot wound to his head”
The Sun’s circumspect headline – was he murdered? – is followed by:
“JORDY Chandler’s dad was last night revealed to have killed himself - just five months after the death of his son’s alleged sex abuser Michael Jackson.”
Although:
Mr Chandler’s suicide - on November 5 but which only emerged last night - was being probed by baffled cops.
If it’s definitely suicide why are the police baffled?
The 65-year-old - whose son was 13 when he claimed in the early 1990s that Jacko molested him - left no note. Jordy, now 29, was given a payoff worth millions by the King of Pop to prevent his allegations emerging in court.
Jackson left notes – Post Its all over his bathroom and face. He died a pretty nomal death for man who lived such an odd life. But the talk is of homicide. Can the death of Evan Chandler be bled into the conspiracy?
Police confirmed: “We have ruled it as suicide because he was found with a gun held to his body. He had a single bullet wound to the side of his head. There was no note but officers did find medication in keeping with a serious medical condition.”
Posted: 18th, November 2009 | In: Media | Comment (1) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Prostitutes Tout for Business At The National Gallery
A VISITOR at the Kienholz: ‘The Hoerengracht’ exhibition by American artists Ed Hienholz and Nancy Reddin Kienholz, at the National Gallery, in central London.
But is it porn?
Posted: 18th, November 2009 | In: Media | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Rebecca Stevenson: Britain’s Worse Mum Has Two Houses?
REBECCA Stevenson is “Britain’s worse mum”. The Lancashire Telegraph confirms it:
DEFINITELY Britain’s worst mum’ was the verdict of one of Rebecca Stevenson’s furious neighbours yesterday.
The Sun agrees that Rebecca Stevenson is the “UK’s worst mum”. She’s worse than Tracey Connelly. She’s worse than Vanessa George? As one nodding head said:
The grim figures led one social workers’ leader to warn there are “Baby P’s” [sic] in every local authority in Britain.”
The Mail reports that the 22-year-old mum from Blackburn, Lancashire has earned herself a 20-week suspended prison for leaving four children under five to “fend for themselves in the filthy, cluttered house - while she partied with friends”.
Posted: 17th, November 2009 | In: Media | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Belle De Jour Pictures: Brooke Magnanti Teaches Sex To Bel Mooney And Daily Mail Readers
BLOGGER and celebrity prostitute Belle de Jour is revealed to be Brooke Magnanti, and now her father, Paul Magnanti, is telling the about his life with prostitutes.
Now Belle de Jour’s father confesses: I used 150 call girls
(* “Now…” Watch: Now has become the Mail’s wail of choice. Look out for it.)
Belle de Jour’s estranged father broke down in tears last night as he revealed he had used more than 150 prostitutes himself - and had introduced his daughter to some of them.
Do you think he read her blog and, er, enjoyed it?
He believes that letting her meet some of the prostitutes when she was in her twenties may have made her think that women who sell sex can have a ‘human face’.
Posted: 17th, November 2009 | In: Key Posts, Media | Comments (5) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Hitler Would Have Warmed To Al Gore
NEWSWEEK loves Al Gore. Forty-six percent of their letter writers wrote on the subject of Gore, and 74 percent of them were critical but Newsweek ran only positive letters.
No big deal that a news organ is biased. But global warming is so anti fascist. Al Goreans can’t be fascists. Can they?
One missive tells us:
Propaganda by global-warming skeptics and deniers reminds me of 1944, when as an Army officer I saw living skeletons in striped pajamas. Horror stories about Nazi concentration camps suddenly rang true. I wondered how intelligent people could commit such atrocities. History records the effectiveness of Joseph Goebbels’s propaganda. I hope Al Gore and others can prevail over today’s anti–science propaganda.
Posted: 16th, November 2009 | In: Global Warming | Comment (1) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
New York Times Secret Print After Party Video
PRINT is dead. But there’s still an after party to get to. Jason Eppink has been throwing “Print After Parties” at newspaper boxes. Says Eppink:
Abandoned by floundering media conglomerates, thousands of neglected newsracks command valuable real estate on busy street corners across New York City, remnants of diminishing demand and a disintegrating economy. Many have already been reclaimed and transformed by urban alchemists, whether as canvases for stickers and paint or clever conceptual works that turn the once important vessels of information into repositories for garbage.
Posted: 16th, November 2009 | In: Media | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Katie Price Should Marry Samantha Fox To Give Her Kids A Better Start In Life, Research Says
RESEARCH suggests that any future romance between “lesbian” Katie Price and Samantha Fox in the I’m A Celebrity jungle may leads to better life for his children, Junior Peter Andre, Princess Tianaminime and Harvey.
Stephen Scott, director of research at the National Academy for Parenting Practitioners, has said his research shows children from lesbian couples do better in life than the offspring of heterosexual couples…
“Lesbians make better parents than a man and a women,” Mr Scott told a meeting for the launch of think tank Demos.
Posted: 16th, November 2009 | In: Key Posts, Media | Comment (1) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
In Pictures, Dr Brooke Magnanti Is Web Prostitute Belle De Jour
DR Brooke Magnanti is Belle de Jour, the blogging London prostitute who charged a few hunderd pounds a night for her services (see pictures below). Says the nice Jewish doctor, a research scientist for The Bristol Initiative for Research of Child Health:
“I don’t want this massive secret over me any more.”
And the massive threat that an ex-lower would spill the beans and ruin her. Of, course, what you want to know is what Bell de Jour looks like. What does £300 pounds a night get you? And could you earn the same? Here goes:
Posted: 15th, November 2009 | In: Key Posts, Media | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
THE Week in pictures, featuring Lindsay Lohan’s bag, Rihanna’s woman of the year nipple, The Queen’s massive poppy, Take That reunited with Robbie Williams, Daren Gough doing it for England,The Duke of Beaufort’s Hunt, Nikolai Valuev’s height over David Haye’s mouth, Sesame Street, Amy Winehouse’s chest, JLS going GAY, The Westmisnter Bridge Jumper of London, Sam Fox’s front and more shockers…
Posted: 15th, November 2009 | In: Media | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Prince Charles Says Australians Still Living In 1977
THE Sunday Express brings front-page news of “CHARLES AMAZING REPUBLIC GAFFE.”
What did Prince Charles say?
The heir to the throne is alleged to have made the extraordinary comments about the monarchy during a tour Down Under where he is reported to have told told [sic] dinner guests that he couldn’t understand “why Australia bothered with us – we are really yesterday’s news”.
Old news for sale!
Posted: 15th, November 2009 | In: Media | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Dr Who Created Al Gore, And Other Global Warming Science
GLOBAL warming news as the Times’ survey into British attitudes towards man-made climate change excite both sides of the heated debate. Richard North reviews the science.
Before he does, know that Dr Who is on the side of the Al Goreans:
GIANT MAGGOTS AS ECOLOGICAL WARNING (THE GREEN DEATH, 1973)
Doctor Who reflected growing environmental awareness in the 1970s, when Jon Pertwee battled giant, man-eating maggots created by toxic waste. The villains are the suits who run Global Chemicals, and the heroes are the hippy drop-outs of the “Nut Hutch”. It may have been a simple depiction of big issues, but for popular television (attracting about eight million viewers) aimed at a young audience, this was radical political and social drama disguised as adventure fiction.
Dr Who created Al Gore! Now read on:
LEAD item for The Times today is a survey the paper has commissioned on attitudes to global warming.
Posted: 14th, November 2009 | In: Global Warming | Comment (1) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
James Arthur Ray: Lakota Nation Sues And Dead Woman’s Friends Attack
JAMES Arthur Ray: “Some friends of James Arthur Ray sweat lodge victim Kirby Brown are doing their part to spruce up the view from the New Age guru and motivational speaker’s Carlsbad, California offices.
“They’ve hung the above pictured banner in a spot that ensures Ray will have something to read every day when he goes into the office.
“It reads:
BE ACCOUNTABLE JAMES ARTHUR RAY. YOU WERE TRUSTED BY OUR FRIEND KIRBY BROWN AND NOW SHE AND TWO OTHERS ARE DEAD!
In other news from Our Man in LA:
The lawsuits keep piling up on James Ray’s doorstep.
This time it’s the Lakota Indian nation of North and South Dakota that’s piling on.
Posted: 14th, November 2009 | In: Media | Comment (1) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Fort Hood Killer Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan Knew Someone With Money In Pakistan
WHEN Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan murdered 13 peoples he set off a starter pistol for the media. Everyone wanted the story. Everyone wanted an angle.
And today Sky News delivers:
Pakistan Link To Fort Hood Army Massacre
The army psychiatrist accused of killing 13 people at America’s biggest army base had links to Pakistan, it has emerged.
That’s Pakistan, a country’s whose population is estimated to be 180.8 million (UN, 2009). Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan knows one or more of these people. He has previously been linked to the West Bank, Greece, mad mullah Anwar Al-Awlaki, Muslim clothing and a lap-dance bar.
Posted: 14th, November 2009 | In: Media | Comments (8) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Norway Exports More Porn Than It Imports
NEWS that British pople are ugly occupies minds on the internets, where Nadia Knows explains that such PR-driven surveys are as credible as a Daily Express phone poll - the results are delivered in percentages so as not to let on that only two people voted, and one of them was looking to “**** Off With Granny”.
A ‘Brits are among the world’s ugliest’ story has done the rounds today, with coverage on the Telegraph, Reuters and CNN. It’s based on some statistics from a dating site that accepts only ‘beautiful people’. (Look ma, no link!)
Posted: 13th, November 2009 | In: Media | Comments (8) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Burglar Leaves Nose Behind At Crime Scene
THE Florence Police Department has issued a warrant for Cole’s arrest for first-degree theft of property. He is accused of stealing a woman’s purse.
Mr Cole is not all about taking and has left part of his nose after getting in a fight with a man living in a home he had broken into. During the bout, the homeowner bit off the larger portion of Mr Cole’s nose.
Posted: 13th, November 2009 | In: Media | Comment (1) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
David Dimbleby Hit By Bullock In Polegate Smallholding
HEADLINE of the day award goes to the Brighton’s The Argus for his gem in response to David Dimbeleby - the BBC’s political gamekeeper on a cushion - having been knocked unconscious by a bullock at his “smallholding”:
David Dimbleby injured by bullock in Polegate
Nasty business.
Posted: 13th, November 2009 | In: Media | Comment (1) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Jon Gaunt Compounds The Sun’s Misery Over The Jacqui Janes Debacle
THE Sun would like to apologise for spelling Jacqui Janes’ name wrong in a piece about how Gordon Brown is the Devil incarnate for, er, spelling Jacqui Janes’ name wrong.
In other Sun news, Jon Gaunt tells Gordon Brown:
So Brown Pants Brown has insulted not only the family of fallen hero Jamie Janes but also every other British soldier by scribbling a note that even a five year old could have bettered.
Before we go on: Anorak is no bastion of correct spelling. But we have never accused others of stomping on the memories of dead solders for misspelling a name. Back to Gaunt and his tantrum:
That said if Brown or his predecessor had any real courage they would at least be at Wootten Basset when the fallen return but no, unlike Obama, Brown stays holed up in his Downing street bunker.
Wootten Basset… Not to be confused with Wootton Bassett?
Posted: 13th, November 2009 | In: Media | Comments (3) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
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