Posts Tagged ‘daily mail’
Daily Mail Readers’ Poll Of Polls: Facebook Gives You Cancer
THE Daily Mail readers’ poll asks readers if they prefer looks over brains. The Daily Mail spends much of its time clacking its marmalade-coated tongue at pictures of near-naked women used to illustrate the moral horror of near-naked women. Nadia has pulled together a few more polls:
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Posted: 1st, December 2010 | In: Reviews | Comment (1)
Cornwall Paedophile Gang Neither Asian Nor Muslim: Daily Mail Bias Revealed?
IN Cornwall, six paedophiles have been arrested for sexually abusing and raping very young children.
The guilty are: James Machin, John Barrett, John Wrey, Alan Wills, Mark Cox and Derek Shepherd. None of them are Asian.
Earlier in the week, the Mail reported on a gang of paedophiles in Blackburn:
Asian gang raped girls as young as 12 after picking them up on the streets for sex
This time the Mail’s headline is:
Paedophile ring ‘groomed young girls before repeatedly abusing them in an empty holiday cottage’
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Posted: 27th, November 2010 | In: Reviews | Comments (11)
Student Demo: Daily Mail Reports That Every Student Went On A Rampage (Photos)
THE SECOND student demo against a hike in fees produced not very much in the way of mayhem. But the Mail had already written its story.
Burning with anger: London streets in flames again as 25,000 go on rampage in new student fees riot
So says “Daily Mail reporter” watching 25,000 students on a “rampage”.
Those students on demos in Manchester, Sheffield, Bristol, Leeds, Brighton and Cambridge may well wonder if they should bother given that violence in London is all the news media cares about. But then they should read on and discover that their mannered and orderly protest was part of the “rampage”:
Around 10,000 students and protesters flooded London for a new demonstration just a fortnight after anarchists unleashed mayhem at the Tory Party headquarters. More than 25,000 students in total are believed to have taken part in protests across the country today.
And, according to Daily Mail Reporter, almost everyone of them was on a “rampage”.
Those rampage photos:
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This god-awful reporting is almost bettered by the Mail’s second story:
Rage of the girl rioters: Britain’s students take to the streets again – and this time women are leading the charge
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Posted: 25th, November 2010 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comment
Hitler’s Breakfast Was Bread, Marmalade And The Daily Mail
ADOLF Hitler took bread and marmalade for breakfast. He was “mild” mannered and polite during personal exchanges. He hated being watched, preferring the quiet life and to mind his own business.
SS operative Schutze Obernigg, an Austrian deserter, told the Allied forces:
“Hitler was grey and bent, but wore a very satisfied expression. He is mild on personal contact but apt to bang tables and shout during conferences.”
In short, Hitler was the perfect Daily Mail reader, clacking his marmalade-coated tongue at the daily news and banging his fist on the table when anyone impolite or political correctness had gone mad.
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Posted: 29th, October 2010 | In: Politicians | Comment
If The Daily Mail Did Irony We’d All Be Greedy Like Wayne Rooney
THE Daily Mail’s Saturday edition was offering readers free CASH – above a headline that spat bile at Wayne Rooney ‘s greed in asking for more money from paymasters at a private business called Manchester United.
If only the Mail did irony…
Switching On The Toilet Light Might Not Give You Cancer
REMEMBER when the Daily Mail told us that going to the toilet caused cancer? The paper of doom’s news was chilling – Liz Jones was scared; bulemic’s were in a turmoil:
The news is chilling:
Simply turning on a light at night for a few seconds to go to the toilet can cause changes that might lead to cancer…
Says Professor Kyriacou:
‘The ‘switching on of lights causes cancer when you go to the bathroom at night’ is an eye-catching fabrication of the press.’
Or is it?
Posted: 27th, April 2010 | In: Reviews | Comment (1)
Daily Mail Hack Liz Jones Is Scared Of Everything Except Irony: Beyond Parody
IN today’s Daily Mail, the nation’s foremost bringer of Scare Stories, Liz Jones delivers the most irony-laden story ever.
Says Jones:
Now I know why I HATE myself… Intense therapy discovered a dark secret locked in my past
Turns out that Jones is scared of all kinds of stuff. The kind of stuff that fills the Mail’s pages day after day:
I have never felt happy, not even for a moment. Every day is something to be got through. Actually, I tell a lie. There are odd moments when I feel vaguely safe.
What scares you Liz?
Everything I do is tinged with fear.
Read all about it!
My dad would pick me up from school discos, well into my late teens. I always assumed I was in imminent danger of being murdered. I developed a habit of conjuring images of disaster in my head.
And then one say she went to work for the Daily Mail…
Posted: 26th, April 2010 | In: Reviews | Comments (7)
What The Daily Mail Sounds Like: A Song By Dan And Dan
EVER wonder what the Daily Mail sounds like? Anorak always thought it was the clack of marmalade-coated tongue hitting the roof of the Arkela’s mouth. What does spite and fear sound like? Surrey? It turns out it also sounds like Dan and Dan:
Posted: 30th, March 2010 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
Daily Mail Uses Image Of Beachy Head For Story Over Sale Of Dover To France
NOW THEY’RE selling the White Cliffs Of Dover! The Daily Mail had the chilling news that the French were coming. Dover will be the first of five French Ports. We get to keep Calais.
White Cliffs of Dover to be sold to the French to help reduce Government’s debt
Vanessa Allen had news:
For generations Dover has stood as an indomitable symbol of Britain’s freedom and independence. The town, with its white cliffs, port and sprawling castle stood at the very edge of the nation’s frontier with the Continent. But now part of
that proud history is up for sale and the leading bidder is revealed as the former age-old enemy – France.
Posted: 10th, February 2010 | In: Reviews | Comment (1)
Daily Mail And Huffington Post In Dick Van Dyke Plagiarism Row
PLAGIARISM is lazy. The hack can’t even be bothered to attribute the source nor paraphrase the original to make it look like new, and at least as good. Robert J. Elisberg puts forward the argument that a work – a review of Dick Van Dyke’s LA theatre production of Mary Poppins – was plagiarised by the Daily’s Mail’s Chris Johnson.
MacGuffin from the Tabloid Watch blog investigates:
AN article by Robert J. Elisberg at The Huffington Post has shown a journalist at the Daily Mail indulging in blatant plagiarism.(We would add, allegedly.)
The story is about a cameo appearance by Dick Van Dyke in a LA theatre production of Mary Poppins.
The problem is Mail hack Chris Johnson’s article is suspiciously similar to an LA Times one by Karen Wada, which appeared several hours earlier.
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How The Media Works: Daily Mail Destroys Amanda Holden
HOW the media works, with celebrity eyebrow wrangle Amanda Holden and the Daily Mail:
Spot the girl with a talent for staying trim – Most of us would be pretty nervous about appearing in a bikini so soon after Christmas – Daily Mail, January 20, 2010
One day later:
Amanda struggling to Holden to her glamorous looks at Britain’s Got Talent auditions
With her hair scraped back, make-up kept to a minimum and a few laughter lines allowed to show, she’s clearly reworked last year’s all-out glamour approach.
She admits she hasn’t had Botox in months, although her forehead is quite noticeably wrinkle-free – Amanda struggling to Holden to her glamorous looks at Britain’s Got Talent auditions – Daily Mail, January 20, 2010
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Daily Mail Slams Swine Flu Scare Story It Scared Us With
REMEMBER when Swine Flu was going to kill us all? The Daily Mail linked it to Jonathan Ross, and his causes. The Mail told us:“An armoury of drugs. A global network tracking every new outbreak. Instant diagnosis by phone. We’ve never been better prepared to tackle a flu pandemic… OR HAVE WE?”
SIX months ago Britain’s tabloids were tolling the bell of a looming Armageddon. KILLER FLU IS HERE, NOW SWINE FLU PANIC SWEEPS BRITAIN, SWINE FLU WILL KILL 350 PEOPLE EVERYDAY and CHILDREN ARE SPREADING BUG were some of the somber headlines from the Daily Express.
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Posted: 13th, January 2010 | In: Reviews | Comments (3)
Now The Taliban Ban Tinsel In Nuneaton
IN the Mail’s PC gone mad rant, readers learn of a Midlands Taliban banning tinsel. In our midst, man mullahs are killing our Great British tinsel. MacGuffin takes up the story:
THE latest ‘PC brigade ban Christmas’ nonsense comes in today’s Mail. The article comes with the headline: Tinsel Taliban strikes as Court Service ban staff from decorations to avoid offence because, obviously, people who allegedly want to ‘ban’ coloured lengths of cheap shiny plastic are just like the Taliban.
The story claims this: Tory Baroness Warsi has received an email from an admin worker at Warwickshire Justice Centre in Nuneaton who claims tinsel has been banned under the company diversity and equality police because it offends people of other religions. Namely Muslims.
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The Daily Mail Makes Nonsense Of Common Sense
THE Daily Mail is the newspaper of “common sense”, clacking its marmalde-coated tongue in the face of PC madness, immigrants, New Labour and anythign that is just plain wrong. William Hague wanted to lead us in Common Sense Revolution. The electorate saw sense. The Mail continues to pursue the agenda. Nadia investigates:
IT isn’t unusual for the press to use the nebulous ‘public interest’ argument to justify their reporting of certain stories. From the Max Mosley ‘sick Nazi orgy’ to the ongoing coverage of Tiger Woods’ ‘transgressions’, it’s an argument that’s growing wearyingly thin. (For a nice deconstruction of the Tiger Woods circus, see here.)
The Daily Mail, however, tends to see itself as an arbiter of another important virtue: common sense. It’s this dubious common sense that appears to underpin its more vicious coverage of immigration and so on. A search for “common sense” on the Mail Online yields 3531 results – and the headlines usually involve it being urged over some PC agenda.
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Want To See Pictures Of Young And Innocent Katy Perry?
WANT to see pictures of young and innocent Katy Perry? MacGuffin loosk at the Mail’s Brave New World:
AFTER a series of decidedly creepy articles about the pre-school-age Suri Cruise and the picture of a fourteen-year-old’s bum, the Mail is at it again, with the groundbreaking revelation that someone who is now 25 was once 11:
Now, there’s nothing wrong with Perry putting a pic of her younger self on Twitter – the same evil Twitter the Mail seems to get lots of stories from.
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Daily Mail Scuppers BBC’s Wrong Shipping Forecast
MORE on the Daily Mail’s war on the BBC. MacGuffin looks at a reaction to BBC Radio 4’s Shipping Forecast near disaster:
THIS morning, this particular story was third on the Mail’s website, suggesting that there are only two more important stories around.
Paul Revoir’s BBC apologises after broadcast of wrong shipping forecast leaves listeners all at sea reveals:
the BBC is in hot water after it broadcast the wrong shipping forecast and ended up frightening the nautical community with force 11 winds that had already passed.
‘Hot water’? So there was a Jan Moir-like flood of complaints? That’s what the Mail implies:
Members of the public feared that sailors were put at risk by the reports of extreme whether when the information was wrong.
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Posted: 24th, November 2009 | In: Reviews | Comments (2)
Daily Mail And Tax Payers’ Alliance Attacks BBC Over Its Free Trees For A Better Planet
THE Daily Mail is no fan of the BBC and free trees. The BBC is full of guff – only this morning it gave us two climate change stories:
1. “BBC2, 7pm Wed 25 Nov: Can Obama Save the Planet?“, presented by Justin Rowlatt.
2. A story in which we learnt – with no facts – that Australian bush fires are arriving earlier than ever and are more intense, and that Australia is sometimes called – get this – “the Saudi Arabia of coal“.
MacGuffin notices that its “latest pathetic assault on the BBC comes in a story about trees”. He has more:
BBC under fire for Autumnwatch tree giveaway costing licence fee payers £150,000 reveals:
The Beeb is handing out 300,000 free trees at a thousand different garden centres, nurseries and DIY stores nationwide.
Each sapling has cost the corporation 32 pence – £96,000 in total
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Posted: 23rd, November 2009 | In: Reviews | Comments (5)
JLS Spark Football Tragedy And Swindon Dies In This Week’s Scare Stories
SCARE Stories: Every day the Daily Mail scours scientific research journals, reports from vested-interest groups and the thoughts of NGO’s and publishes the scare stories as facts. Anorak picks the best of the week:
Monday
* “Lunchboxes with as much sugar as TEN doughnuts”
* “Concert stampede could have been a new Hillsborough” – fans surge in Birmingham’s Millennium Square to see JLS. The even is in the open air. No fences. Side streets re not closed. Sixty people are hurt, none seriously. At Hillsborough 96 football fans were killed.
* “’Cosmetic surgery is now more risky’”
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Fat Kate Moss Is New Face Of Starbucks, With Added Cellulite
KATE Moss says “nothing tastes as good as skinny” and the Sun screams from its front page:
“Kate Moss brain is size zero”
MODEL SPARKS OUTRAGE.
The model might have sparked a new slogan for Starbucks lo-cal coffees and shakes. But the outrage is about the thinness. And the people outraged most are those who represent vested interest groups, like Katie Green, face and chest of Say No To Size Zero, a former anorexic and the founder of the National Centre for Eating Disorders.
The allegation is that Kate Moss encourages anorexia. In other Sun news:
HERE is KATE MOSS slumming it with mere mortals at McDonald’s. The supermodel popped in to the fast-food chain in Central London to pick up a spot of lunch to go.
And:
KATE Moss is pencil thin – but her clothing collection appeals to Brittons of every shape and size.
But it’s the Mail that really takes the hypo-critic oath, telling its readers:
The saying is a watchword for millions of anorexics and bulimia sufferers.
The Mail quotes a study:
The study by the Exeter-based Schools Health Education Unit found that a majority of teenage girls – and 40 per cent of ten and 11-year-olds – believed they needed to slim but few were actually overweight.
It’s just so wrong that young girls are so worried about their looks and fat. In previous Daily Mail fat and ugly Kate Moss news:
TUMMY – ‘Like most women who have had a baby, Kate has a bit of loose skin in the lower tummy area,’ says diet and fitness specialist Joanna Hall.
‘There is very little fat beneath it, but also not much muscle definition. Some exercise would help…
And that rounded tum-tum?
She insists she isn’t pregnant, and the cigarette in her right hand would appear to confirm that fact. But the way she was rubbing what appeared to be a bump beneath her baggy top did nothing to dispel rumours that Kate Moss is, indeed, expecting her second child.
No, not pregnant. Just a bit of fat or gas. The last word can be with stick thin former anorexic Liz Jones, in the Mail:
We fashion editors loved her in her 20s for the fact she would brazenly model a bikini on the catwalk or in bright sunshine, despite the fact she was no longer 16, had never been six foot, had a long trunk and short legs and the dimplings of cellulite.
Sticks and stones will break her bones – unless Kate Moss is fate enough to absorb them…
Posted: 19th, November 2009 | In: Celebrities | Comment (1)
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.
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Posted: 5th, November 2009 | In: Reviews | Comments (4)
Supermarket Bans Under 25s From Buying Daily Mail And All Newspapers
ANORAK likes to spot new trends in journalism, and we bring you tales from the aisles, the casebooks of the supermarket police force, who serve to ban you from buying inappropriate goods.
One day supermarkets will ban under 25s from buying newspapers, full as they with scare stories and porn. But not many under 25s buy them, so there may not be any need to bother.
The essential Bournemouth Echo reports on the defiantly named Gill Power-Forward, a product of nominative determinism who will not be stopped:
Gill Power-Forward had just finished at the check-out at the Canford Heath Asda store and was handing the heavier of the two bags to her strapping teenage son Andrew to take to the car. But she was stunned to be stopped by the cashier, who insisted she carry the heavy bag herself because it had the bottle of wine in – and her son might drink it…
As a strapping lad…
Gill said: “I didn’t know what to say. The world’s gone mad was all I could think – it’s crazy. Suppose I’d been in a wheelchair and was unable to carry the bag.”
Or had to put the bag on your lap. Suppose.
The Guardian brings news from Leeds, and introduces the idea that the shopper’s profession in relevant:
Management consultant Jackie Slater thought she was completing a normal shopping trip to Morrisons until the checkout assistant demanded to see her ID before scanning two bottles of wine.
Management consultants, eh. Would you trust one?
“I told her I was really flattered, but I was the wrong side of 50,” she said. But the assistant pointed to her 17-year-old daughter, Emily, and her 18-year-old niece, Annice, who were standing at the end of the checkout chatting.
“She asked: ‘Are they with you?’ I said they’d come to help me carry the bags back to the car. The assistant said: ‘You could be buying the wine for them. It’s the policy – I have to see everyone’s ID to make sure they are all over 18’.”
And in the Mail:
RAF officer banned from buying alcohol because he was shopping with son, 17
That an RAF officer had to buy his own booze is disgusting enough. But this is too much.
And what about her:
Karen Dumelow is 46. She looks younger. She at a branch of Tesco with her 14-year-lold daughter Emily. She is buying two bottles of wine (white).
The cashier asks for ID. Karen Dumelow is by trade a “fraud investigator”. Says mum to the Porstmouth News:“The checkout assistant asked Emily for ID and I just told her that obviously she didn’t have any because she is only 14 years old.”
Obviously. And, perhaps, not an ID she wanted to show her mum.
For some it’s booze. For Tesco’s it’s spoons. Tesco’s moves with the times:
Emma Sheppard is unable to buy a packet of teaspoons from her local Tesco’s in Evesham, Worcester. The check out operative has studied the ‘Think 25′ scheme, and wonders if Emma is old enough – over 25 – to buy teaspoons.
Says Emma:
“When the assistant asked me for ID I thought John had sneakily put some booze in the trolley, but then when she held up a pack of spoons we looked at her like she was an idiot.
“We were both a bit taken aback really – what are you going to do with a packet of spoons that means you need ID to buy them? In this crazy world we live in, you have to be over 18 to buy teaspoons it seems.”
Read: Tesco Introduces Products For Over 65s Only
Emma is housewife, says the Mail, which showcases these type of stories to show just how hideous the country becomes when Daily Mail readers rise to positions of authority….
Posted: 11th, October 2009 | In: Reviews | Comment (1)
Richard Littlejohn’s Problem With Barack The Dog
RICHARD Littlejohn’s column has, as his wont, gone to hell in a handbasket, as the Mail’s great sage tells his readers of Shropshire’s Kate Pong, who gave birth to quintuplets Beyone, Barack, Bobbi, Tyra and Earl.
My first reaction was that this must be a wind-up, probably placed for a bet by someone at the swine flu hotline with nothing better to do.
We rang The Times advertising department and they assured us it was genuine. There’s no mention of a Mr Pong, or any father’s name for that matter.
If true, which I still doubt, somewhere out there in Shropshire is a single mother called Kate Pong with quins, variously named after an American pop singer, a model and the U.S. President. You couldn’t make it up.
No, but you could check your facts. MacGuffin looked up the story and discovered that it is true:
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Posted: 8th, September 2009 | In: Reviews | Comment (1)
Glasgow Herald Opts For The Daily Mail Model
THE latest heavyweight newspaper to follow Anorak into the wonderful world of the web is the Glasgow Herald when it yesterday launched it’s new look webpages.
This morning’s second edition is still more than a little shaky
It is startlingly like Anorak in it’s layout and format, and Young Mr Anorak has himself had the good grace to say it is extremely nice to look at and even busier than Anorak.
Well so it should be; it is the latest offspring of a truly great national newspaper. OK, it circulates very few copies outside of Scotland but all UK journalists recognise it as one of the greats.
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Posted: 8th, September 2009 | In: Reviews | Comments (6)
The Perfect Daily Mail Story
BETH Hale toils away for the Daily Mail, striving as she must to produce the ultimate Tabloid Bingo story, the story that will feed on fear, scare and epitomise all that is wrong with gone-to-hell-in-a-handcart Britain.
One on July 14, 2009, she hit the big one:
Crushed to death: Maths teacher killed in rubbish truck after falling asleep in wheelie bin following night of drinking
Boxes ticked:
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Posted: 14th, July 2009 | In: Reviews | Comment (1)
Pictures Of Students Drunk In Bikinis
THE Mail manages to unite three of its passion by combining suicide, binge drinking and pictures of young, firm female flesh in one story. And that story is:
Out for the count: Cambridge students celebrate ‘Suicide Sunday’ with binge drinking and all-women jelly wrestling
The Mail is disgusted and foaming with rage and outrage as “Cambridge students celebrate ‘Suicide Sunday’ with binge drinking and all-women jelly wrestling”.
You want to see the pictures? Well, there are lots of these dirty pictures. Look! Look! Look! Disgusting! These women should be put over a Mail reader’s quaking knees and smacked on their bare backsides.
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Posted: 15th, June 2009 | In: Reviews | Comments (5)
