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QPR Balls: Harry Redknapp Has More Shots Than His Team

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HOW tabloid reporting works: QPR mangaer Harry Redknapp wrties for the Sun. It says on October 6:

“Harry in quit threat: Harry Redknapp is refusing to sign a new QPR deal and may quit football at the end of the season. SunSport can reveal the Hoops boss told chairman Tony Fernandes three weeks ago that his future depends upon staying up”

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Posted: 7th, October 2014 | In: Sports | Comment


Transfer Balls: Arsenal ‘Sell’ Higuain To Liverpool

TRANSFER Balls: a look at rumours and drivel reported as fact by the mainstream media. Today the Mirror wonders if Gonzalo Higuain is heading to Liverpool.

As ever with the Mirror, it’s a question of sport:

 

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In the old days, when journalists reported fact, the Mirror would ahve been expected to provied answers. But now it simply garners hits by creating questions witha  football team element.

The story is:

Gunning for Gonzalo – Liverpool are weighing up a £30million bid for Napoli striker Gonzalo Higuain, according to the Express.

The Mirror doesn’t bother to check the varacity of the Express’ quotidian Balls. It provides no link to allow readers to check the Express, which reports:

Argentina international Higuain is reportedly unsettled at the Serie A side as the pressure mounts on Rafa Benitez following a poor run of form, and Brendan Rodgers is keen to bring the ex-Real Madrid forward to Anfield in a deal worth over £30million.

Number of reports linked and named: nil.

Number of words from Brendan Rodgers: nil.

To put the tinm lid on the balls, the Mirror notes:

Arsenal had previously shown an interest in Higuain but are unlikely to make a bid after the signing of Danny Welbeck.

Or as the Sun put it:

 

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Higuain plays for Napoli.

Such are the facts.

Posted: 1st, October 2014 | In: Arsenal, Liverpool, Sports | Comment (1)


Arsenal Balls: About That Arteta ‘Exclusive’

TRANSFER Balls: The Mirror has an Arsenal “EXCLUSIVE”.

 

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Posted: 1st, October 2014 | In: Arsenal, Sports | Comment


Liverpool ‘Trolls’ And The Trouble With Fabregas And Torres At Chelsea

THE Daily Mirror’s Brian Reade – the man who ‘assassinated’ an area and its white population in the “White Man’s Gulch” of Eltham – is upset at treatment meted out to Chesela’s Cesc Fabregas And Liverpool’s Fabio Borini:

Why are Fabio Borini and Cesc Fabregas now having to defend themselves against online character assassinations?

That question is soon followed by another?

Borini, who spurned two moves away from Anfield this summer has taken abuse from Sunderland, QPR and Liverpool trolls for being a greedy little git. Since when has having the determination to fight for your place at the club you signed for been a crime?

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Posted: 12th, September 2014 | In: Chelsea, Liverpool, Sports | Comment (1)


Ashya King: How The Daily Mirror Turned Readers Into Narks And Supported A Police State

ASHYA King: the story of the child kidnapped by the State and hunted by the police is occupying hearts at the Mirror. The paper scalls it a “SCANDAL”. It says the treatment meted out ot Ashya and his parents Brett and Naghmeh King is “BARBARIC”.

 

 

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The Mirror is right.

It’s ugly.

The paper says the parents have been “hauled” before Spanish courts. “Little” Ashya lies in a hospital kept apart from his loved ones.

But what did the Mirror think would happen when the British police issued an alert that Ashya and his parents must be tracked down lest Ashya die?

Now the Mirror says BBC football pundit Gary Lineker has called for the police to release the Kings. A petition calling for the same has attracted tens of thousands of signatures.

Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg says it is “not appropriate” to jail the parents.

The paper’s Alison Phillips oozes:

Little Ashya King lies in a foreign hospital surrounded by staff he can’t understand, struck down by an illness he can’t understand and in the midst of a European drama he can’t understand.

He went to school in Spain. Chances are Ashya speaks Spanish and does understand the doctors. But still Phillips’ article is not based on facts; this is all about how much she and her paper cares for the Kings:

Meanwhile the only people who could give the five-year-old reassurance, explanation, security and love – his parents – are banged up in a Spanish jail. And it is utterly barbaric.

Yeah. It is. And the people that aided the police in their hunt should be ashamed.

Do you know what the Mirror said before Ashya King and his parents became a cause celebre?

Missing Ashya King has been spotted with his parents at a Spanish holiday resort, an expat said, as police battled to find the terminally ill boy.

The good cops were “battling” to find the boy for the oddball parents who let their chidlren play in a swimming pool.

The five-year-old has a deadly brain tumour and experts have warned he needs specialised care immediately. British officers have issued European arrest warrants for “neglect” against Ashya’s Jehovah’s Witness parents Brett, 51, and Naghmeh, 45. They took him from his hospital ward and fled on Thursday.

Their religion is relevant to Mirror. The mood was very much for the police and against the weirdo parents.

 

 

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The paper recorded the message sent out by Spanish police:

“On the Costa del Sol, family with seven children, one of them needing urgent medical treatment which his parents are denying him. If you see them, phone us.”

These heartless parents denying their poor son the treament he needs. They are, we hear, Jehovah’s Witnesses. Join the dots. Rescue the child from this heartless parents.

The Mirror had more:

Police say that if they do not find five-year-old Ashya King within 24 hours there are ‘serious concerns for his life’

So police say. And so the Mirror did not question.

The Mirror then relayed photos of the parents. They looked a lot like mug shots. We didn’t. We didn’t want to do the police’s nasty work and ask readers to become narks. All papers showed the photos of Brett and Naghemeh King. Why so keen to do the police’s work? Why so keen to make readers into narks?

 

 

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The Mirror told its readers:

Anyone with information about Ashya’s whereabouts should contact Hampshire Constabulary on 101, quoting Operation Aquilion.

Why?

The paper relayed the police’s calls for help without question.

* Assistant Chief Constable Chris Shead said this morning: “It is vital that we find Ashya today. His health will deteriorate rapidly.”

* Hampshire Constabulary said: “We are working with our counterparts in France to activate their emergency child rescue alert procedures to locate the family as soon as possible. If we do not locate Ashya today there are serious concerns for his life. He is receiving constant medical care within the UK due to recent surgery and ongoing medical issues. Without this specialist 24-hour care Ashya is at risk of additional health complications which place him at substantial risk.”

* Detective Superintendent Dick Pearson, from the Hampshire Major Investigation Team, said of Ashya: “He needs to be taken to a medical facility for his urgent health requirements as soon as he is located. We have also launched a social media appeal and would urge everyone to share this appeal, particularly if you have friends and relatives in France and bordering countries.”

* Police have said it is “vital” they find Ashya today. “His health will deteriorate rapidly.” They say his feeding tube is battery operated, and that battery “will run out today”.

* Assistant Chief Constable Chris Shead said Ashya had undergone “extensive surgery” and his last operation was seven days ago. He said: “The information we have received from his medical team at Southampton General Hospital is that he must continue to be fed via a tube by someone with the relevant medical training. If he doesn’t receive urgent medical care, or the wrong treatment is given, his condition will become life-threatening.”

* In a direct appeal to the family, Mr Shead said: “Our message to you is ‘please take Ashya to the nearest hospital immediately’. We understand this must be an awful time for you but the most important thing is to get the proper medical care for Ashya. Please work with us to provide Ashya that care.”

* Mr Shead added: “Ashya is in a wheelchair and is fed through a tube. The feeding system is battery operated and that battery will run out today. Time is running out for this little boy. We need to find him and we need to find him urgently.”

* Assistant Chief Constable Chris Shead said tonight: “Within the last hour, we have been told by medical experts that the battery life on the machine that administers his food is now likely to have expired. We don’t know whether the King family have any spares, the knowledge, or any way of recharging the battery. If they don’t, without properly administered food, Ashya’s condition will deteriorate very quickly.”

* Mr Shead added: “With each hour that passes our concern for him grows.”

And the biggest roll of the eyes is for this utter balls:

Hampshire Police Assistant Chief Constable Chris Shead confirmed the force had obtained a European arrest warrant. He said it was based around “neglect” but added: “That does not necessarily mean they would be charged with that offence.

“It purely gives us the power to arrest and speak to them.”

He went on: “We don’t want the family to be put off by the fact that there is an arrest warrant. We would sooner they speak to us and get Ashya the care he desperately needs.”

Only the police could help Ashya. Only the police could save Ashya The parents just need to see sense.

And, of course, the Kings were arrested. Because that’s what police do.

And now the Mirror calls it “BARBAIC”.

The Mirror was not alone in working for the police. It’s just the most shamless in how it’s changed sides.

You do the police’s bidding without question and you get a police state.

 

Posted: 2nd, September 2014 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comment (1)


Ebola Spread By Tabloid Terror

DO British Airport workers read the Daily Mirror? We ask becsue today the Star leads with news of a strike over Ebola fears:
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The story goes that baord staff are “Terrified”:

An insider told the Daily Star Sunday: “There is panic. It takes one person to come into this country with Ebola and all hell will break loose. Workers are being told to look for passengers who ­appear unwell and to raise the alarm immediately. But given how dangerous it seems to be, that doesn’t seem enough.

“People are scared and you can’t blame them. Many aren’t confident we are going to be kept safe and this has led to strike talk among some staff.”

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Posted: 10th, August 2014 | In: Reviews | Comment


Transfer Balls: Arsenal Endure Feast And Famine In The Daily Mirror

TRANSFER Balls has a quick look at the kind of to-deadline exclusive churned out by the Daily Mirror:

 

Andy Dunn  has words of doom and gloom to Arsenal fans:

 

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Posted: 7th, July 2014 | In: Arsenal, Sports | Comment


Transfer Balls: Frank Lampard Leaves Chelsea But Joins Manchester City Not New York City

TRANSFER Balls: What news of  Chelsea legends Frank Lampard?

On May 31, The Daily Mirror told its readers that Lampard had joined the New York City FC:

 

 

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Posted: 3rd, June 2014 | In: Chelsea, Sports | Comment


Transfer Balls: Ricky Lambert Is Not Exclusive To Liverpool

TRANSFER balls: The Daily Mirror calls itself “the intelligent tabloid”. Knowing that, readers will admire the intelligence behind today’s “EXCLUSIVE” that Ricky Lambert could be leaving Southampton for Liverpool.

 

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More intelligent readers may recalls a similar story on the Guardian website on May 29, posted at 8pm:

Liverpool offer Southampton £4m plus add-ons for Rickie Lambert

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Posted: 30th, May 2014 | In: Reviews | Comment


The Hunt For The Cheeki Rafiki: The Daily Mirror’s Desperate Hunt For A Scoop

THE Mirror leads with news that the Cheeki Rafiki has been found. It even suggests that it found it. Not too long ago the world was scouring satellite images for signs of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370. Now we’re looking for a boat.

 

 

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The Mirror tells readers: “The lifeboats are gone”:

The hull of lost yacht Cheeki Rafiki was found last night – but there was no sign of the four missing sailors.

A US Navy diver swam out to wreckage in the middle of the Atlantic and identified the name on the back of the boat.

But two life rafts were gonesupporting hopes of the sailors’ families that the men had managed to scramble into them before the yacht sank.

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Posted: 24th, May 2014 | In: Reviews | Comment


Transfer Balls: Arsenal Sign Diego Costa For Less Than Chelsea Paid For Him

STEVE Stammers has news for all Arsenal fans reading his Daily Mirror column. The Gunners are all set to buy Atletico Madrid’s Diego Costa transfer for £31m.

 

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Arsenal are set to make an audacious move for Diego Costa.

The 25-year-old Atletico Madrid star has a £31million release clause in his contract…

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Posted: 4th, May 2014 | In: Arsenal, Chelsea, Sports | Comment


Flight MH370 Tabloid Fact Of The Day: Daily Mirror Says The Plane Is 23,000 Below The Sea

MALAYSIAN Flight 370 ascended sharply to 45,000 feet, descended to 23,000 feet before changing course again,changed course many times and then crashed into the Indian Ocean.

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The New York Times reports:

The combination of altitude changes and at least two significant course corrections could have a variety of explanations, including an intentional diversion by a pilot or a hijacker, or uneven flying because a disabled crew.

The erratic movements of the aircraft after it diverted course and flew over the country also raise questions about why the military did not respond in real time to the flight emergency. Malaysian officials have acknowledged that military radar may have picked up the plane, but have said they took no action because it did not appear hostile.

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Posted: 25th, March 2014 | In: Reviews | Comment


Zlatan Ibrahimovic Destroys Arsenal And The Daily Mirror

IN the Daily Mirror, stereotypical shy, conservative Swede Zlatan Ibrahimovic is talking about Arsenal, the team he never did sign for:

“England is a very strong league, with three or four of the best teams in Europe – but, if I had played there, I would have destroyed it, like I have everywhere else. Arsenal could have happened, as everybody knows – but I would not do a trial. Who do you think regrets that more, Arsene Wenger or Zlatan?”

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Posted: 24th, February 2014 | In: Arsenal, Sports | Comment


Michael Schumacher Truth Fades: Daily Mirror Presents As Fact Dire Words Of Doctor Not Treating Injured Driver

IS MICHAEL Schumacher dead? Dying? Not our question, you understand, rather those of the Daily Mirror editorial community, which thinks its readers want an update on the German driver’s health.

 

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Schumacher is recovering from bad  skiing accident in which he suffered severe head injuries after hitting a rock. The 45-year-old is at the Grenoble University Hospital in France.

On January 18, the Mirror told readers:

F1 legend Michael Schumacher still in coma but his condition is no longer critical

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Posted: 22nd, January 2014 | In: Reviews | Comment


Manchester United & England Balls: Phil Jones’ Midfield Role Erased From Record Books

COMPARE and contrast the words of the Daily Mirror’s Martin Lipton on Manchester United and England player Phil Jones:

“Hodgson has always picked Jones as a defender and deployed him primarily at right-back” – December 5, 2013

Or as Lipton said when Brazil played England waaaaay back in June 2013:

“Jagielka and Cahill will play centrally in that back four, Carrick and Jones in front of them at the base of the midfield.”

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Posted: 5th, December 2013 | In: Reviews | Comment (1)


Daily Mirror And William Hill Say Women In Sport Need To More Shaggable

THE Daily Mirror’s Derek McGovern has moved on from the gays in sport to focus his appraising eye on women in sport.

 

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William Hill bookmakers sticks its logo on that sexist bilge.

And this is the same Mirror  – now self-billed as “the intelligent tabloid” – that castigates David Cameron for “The streak of sexism running through the Conservative party”.

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Posted: 30th, November 2013 | In: Sports | Comment


Lewis Collins: The Daily Mirror Attacked Him Growing Old And Fat

THE Daily Mirror leads with a tribute to actor Lewis Collins “A True Professional”.

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Posted: 29th, November 2013 | In: Celebrities | Comments (2)


Daily Mirror Fury: English ‘Nazis’ Rampage In Oxfordshire And Robin Van Persie’s Manchester United Attack The Arsenal On Remembrance Day

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THE Daily Mirror leads with news of Brad Pitt ruining Remembrance Day by hanging out with actors dressed as Nazis in Shirburn, Oxon. The population of Shirburn is around 100.

Fury as director of Brad Pitt film stages Nazi war scenes in English village on REMEMBRANCE SUNDAY

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Posted: 11th, November 2013 | In: Reviews | Comment


Daily Mirror accuses Manchester United of playing like ‘powderpuff’ gays against Manchester City

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DAILY Mirror betting tipster Derek McGovern can’t get enough of The Village People, the band that sang about sodomy in the showers:

September 14:

What I’m saying is that, with Thelikesof Basel and Otelul Galati joining United in the easiest group since The Village People, three clean sheets on the road for Fergie’s men is almost a done deal.

Easiest on the ear? On the clean sheets?

August 18, 2011:

A survey of people pulled over by the rozzers have found the three worst things to say are:

1. Aren’t you the guy from the Village People?

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Posted: 24th, September 2013 | In: Sports | Comment


That’s ‘unpatriotic’: Daily Mirror’s Robbie Savage slams paper’s picture of Spurs and England’s Kyle Walker huffing nitrous oxide

WHEN the Mirror posted that image of Spurs and England defender Kyle Walker huffing nitrous oxide on his summer holidays – it was June – we were not alone in wondering if the paper had sat on the story. ‘Footballer gets off face on summer holidays’ is not a big story. But ‘England footballer facing crunch World Cup qualifying match inhales hippy crack’ is.

The Mirror then followed its shocker with a picture of Roy Hodgson looking not enough unlike Psycho Norman Bates.

We wondered is the Daily Mirror was deliberately trying to unsettle Hodgson’s England?

Mirror journalist Dan Silver thought us “idiots“:

Dan Silver: ‘Rumbled! Eng at World Cup would be disaster for sales. Oh… #idiots @TheAnorak: Mirror continues drive to undermine Roy Hodgson’s England”

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Anorak: “You think the photo the Mirror chose is flattering to Hodgson?”

Dan Silver: “you think the Mirror has a campaign to undermine the England team?”

Anorak: “No. But you’re tapping into the fear factor – not quite the achtung! achtung! of old is it…”

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In todays Mirror, columnist Robbie Savage notes:

“Kyle Walker was naïve, and plain wrong, to inhale nitrous oxide ‘laughing gas’ from a balloon at a party. He has apologised for his mistake, the Football Association are not taking any action against him, and that should be the end of the matter. But the timing of the photograph – which caught Walker in the act – being leaked left a lot to be desired. It was clearly designed to unsettle him as England prepared for a vital World Cup qualifier in Ukraine, and it clearly affected Walker’s performance on the night…  The people who leaked that photo may have had their own motives, but at a time when everyone in England should have been pulling together and hoping for an important result on the road to Brazil, it didn’t look like a patriotic act of unity to me.

So. Did the Mirror sit on the photo or not? And what was the Mirror’s motive?

The Mirror’s editorial meeting should by interesting.

Posted: 13th, September 2013 | In: Key Posts, Sports | Comments (2)


Daily Mirror continues its drive to undermine Roy Hodgson’s England

AS England take on the Ukraine in a must-not-lose World Cup qualifying match in Kiev, the domestic Press focus on the manager, Roy Hodgson. The pressure is on. It always is when you’re the England manager. But what can the papers do to get behind their man?

The Sun goes for a pun

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Posted: 10th, September 2013 | In: Sports | Comment


Transfer Balls: Arsenal’s Giroud worth £109m and Ozil cost nothing

TRANSFER Balls: a look at the work of John Cross, the Daily Mirror’s man in the know:

August 22:

“THIS game showed why Arsenal have spent the whole summer trying to buy a striker. Giroud was the worst culprit… his finishing looks anything but top class”

September 2:

“Who needs to spend £109million when Gunners have Olivier Giroud? Who needs Luis Suarez? Who needs Gonzalo Higuain? Or even Wayne Rooney? Not Arsenal when they have got Olivier Giroud…”

August 29:

Arsenal fear Wenger will spend NOTHING on transfers this summer – Gunners have backed away from Cabaye and Guaita with four days left in the window – could freebies Sanogo and Flamini really be it?

September 2:

Arsenal smash transfer record for £42million Mesut Ozil… The Gunners have agreed personal terms with the Real Madrid star, but it looks as though they won’t be stopping there on transfer deadline day

Such are the facts…

Posted: 2nd, September 2013 | In: Sports | Comments (2)


Transfer balls: Spurs target David Villa replaces Wayne Rooney at Manchester United

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TRANSFER Balls: a look at David Villa, the Barcelona striker on his way to Spurs. Well, so they said:

June 1

David Villa is definitely coming to the Premier League this summer, and Arsenal, Tottenham and Liverpool are all in for the Barcelona striker. Spain international Villa has told his advisers he wants a move to England and has now been given the green light by Barca to negotiate a deal- The Daily Mirror

The Mirror says Villa is worth £12m.

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Posted: 10th, July 2013 | In: Sports | Comment (1)


Mirror ignores Simon Fox in its biased story of how HMV died

THE Daily Mirror live blogged HMV’s demise. One day the old media will live blog a record as it’s being played in an effort to look up-to-date.

Mirror columnist Tony Parson knew who to blame:

It took a lot of people to kill the great British high street. Spiv bankers who drove ­capitalism to the edge of ruin, internet giants who don’t pay their fair share of tax, greedy landlords who want sky high rents even during a ­recession, a Government incapable of making our economy grow and – yes – ­hypocrites like me, who wipe away a tear for HMV with one hand while one-click buying from Amazon on the other.

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Posted: 23rd, January 2013 | In: Reviews, The Consumer | Comment (1)


Olympic fail: Daily Mirror and Daily Express mistake Dutch dressage team for victorious Team GB (photos)

FIRST the Daily Express published a photo of the bronze medal winning Dutch dressage team as a sign of Team GB’s golden greatness, then the Daily Mirror used the same Dutch in its centre pages, their beaming faces below the headline: “ONLY GOLDEN HORSES – Trotters win gold in South-east London”.

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Posted: 8th, August 2012 | In: Key Posts | Comment (1)