Posts Tagged ‘daily telegraph’
Daily Telegraph illustrates an advertorial on Venice with a photo of The Venetian hotel, Las Vegas
The Daily Telegraph has illustrated an advertorial on Venice with a photo of The Venetian hotel, Las Vegas.
Spotter: Lucy Fisher
Posted: 1st, February 2016 | In: Broadsheets, Reviews | Comment
Daily Telegraph Letter Of the Year
Posted: 26th, December 2015 | In: Broadsheets, Reviews | Comment (1)
Daily Telegraph’s ‘Madison Marriage’ reports on Ashley Madison hacking scandal
The Daily Telegraph continues to employ writers on the value of their name alone, witnessed by the paper’s story that millions of knobs trying to arrange extra-marital sex via the Ashley Madison website have been found out..
Madison Marriage reports:
Arsenal, Liverpool, Chelsea, Spurs And Manchester United fans are mugs: 5 things we learned from the Daily Telegraph’s bullshit.com football reports
The faddish Daily Telegraph has produced “five things we learned” from the Manchester United v Tottenham match.
One of them is that Harry Kane “is not one season wonder”. After a single match the Telegraph has learnt that. Wow. Either the Telegraph has a unique insight into football or else it’s a desperate, fickle organ that sees football not as sport to enjoy, but as a sport to milk.
Here are five more things the Daily Telegraph taught us this weekend:
1. “United really need to sort out the De Gea situation”
2. “The Premier League isn’t all fun and games” (learned by watching Stoke City v Liverpool)
3. “Chelsea have defensive problems” (learned watching the blues concede twice against Swansea)
4. “Cech needs to build a better understanding with his defence” (Learned by watching Arsenal’s new goalkeeper gift West Ham two goals)
5. “Reece Oxford is one for the future” (West Ham’s player at 16 is not one for the past)
Football Balls: Daily Telegraph stirs Manchester United and Manchester City row in Ogden-Silva twitter schism
The Daily Telegraph is 160 years old. To mark the newspaper’s birthday on June 29, it thundered: “Telegraph at 160: Serious, popular and pioneering.” And now full of utter balls.
Take the erudite and routinely insightful Mark Ogden’s story on Manchester United and Manchester City. Ogden had scored an interview with City’s Spanish star David Silva. The Telegraph’s headline told readers:
“David Silva: United’s glory days are now over – they are in City’s shadow now”
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Posted: 6th, August 2015 | In: Manchester City, manchester united, Reviews, Sports | Comment
Transfer balls: Arsenal reduce transfer budget by £30m to get Paul Pogba
TRANSFER Balls: a lolok at utter drivel being presented as football fact in the mainstream mdia. Today we look at the Daily Express’ story of “Arsenal’s £50m spree”.
Wenger will have a £50m transfer budget this summer to address the failings in his squad… the Arsenal boss will move for Southampton midfielder Morgan Schneiderlin, another centre-back and possibly a goalkeeper.
To which Arsenal fans who read the Daily Express will says, ‘Is that all?’ Becasue not to long ago the Daily Express told Arsenal fans that the Gunners were goiung to invest £80m in Paul Pogba.
Over in the Telegraph Jeremy Wilson reports:
Wenger will have a transfer budget this summer that is estimated to be around £50 million.
His first priority is in central midfield and a deal in excess of £20 million for Southampton’s Morgan Schneiderlin is a distinct possibility. Another centre-back is also on the agenda, even after the signing of Gabriel from Villarreal. With David Opsina and Wojciech Szczesny both struggling to convince, their options in goal also remains an issue.
But Wilson is right here. It’s about tactics:
The bottom line, though, is that Wenger basically does now have the squad that he wants and Arsenal’s success or otherwise will essentially come down to his selection, tactics and work on the training ground.
Such are the facts…
Football balls: five things Manchester City didn’t learn from the Daily Telegraph
The Daily Telegraph likes ‘Five Things…”. It tops and tails most big football matches with a routine ‘Five Things We Learned About…” story. This week it’s been writing about Barcelona before and after the Catalans’ Champions’ League match with Manchester City.
Before the game, Richard Martin was being schooled at Barcelona’s game with Malaga:
After telling class that “City have no reason to fear Barcelona (1.) and Daniel Alves is “sad” (2.) we learn:
3. Luis Suarez is far from the goal machine he was at Liverpool
4. Lionel Messi can be tamed with the right tactics
5. Barcelona’s midfield is not what it was
Suarez scored both goals in a comfortable 2-1 win, which would have been 3-1 had Lionel Messi not missed yet another penalty and prevented Suarez lashing in the rebound.
After the game, Mark Ogden had “Five Things…
1. Kompany is not brilliant; 2. 4-4-2 didn’t work; Agüero is really good; City fans don’t sing and dance all that much when they team are being beaten; and – gawd…. he must get to five. So, here goes nothing:
5: Barcelona playing in “ridiculous” yellow was “another low”.
Talking of lows, the Telegraph used to be the best newspaper. Not any more it isn’t…
Posted: 25th, February 2015 | In: Manchester City, Sports | Comment
Peter Oborne quits the Daily Telegraph with a tweeted jump shot into Jason Seiken’s news bin
With the General Election looming, the Daily Telegraph waves goodbye to its chief political commentator Peter Oborne. The Telegraph is all about digital balls and listicles.
But @Ned_Donovan wonders if the paper has missed not only its credibility but it’s new raison d’etre:
The Telegraph should probably update whatever list this feed uses:
Mic Wright casts a glance at the Editor-in-Chief ‘s twiter feed:
The Daily Telegraph used to be a newspaper…
Rurik Jutting: ‘The Wind in the Willows’ Killer ‘Confesses’ To Being An Educated Banker
RURIK Jutting is accused of murdering two women in Hong Kong. The dead women are Sumarti Ningsih, 25, and Jesse Lorena, 32.
The media round-up, focusing on Rurik Jutting, who “appears to have mysteriously quit his job in the days around the first murder” (Mail).
The Sun: “I’ve been taken by the devil”. The paper produces the above image and quote.
EMAILS to the Brit banker charged with murdering two prostitutes get the reply: “Please contact someone who is not an insane psychopath.” Ex-public schoolboy Rurik Jutting, 29, faces magistrates today over the double killing.
The prostitutes’ rotting remains were found in his Hong Kong flat, with one stuffed in a case.
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Posted: 3rd, November 2014 | In: Reviews | Comment (1)
Daily Telegraph says Neil Armstrong was ‘first woman in space’
NEIL Armstrong was the fist man on the moon, but was not the first man to report on a famous person’s death and scream ‘FIRST’ on the internet. In the great race to say ‘I beat the rest’, the Daily Telegraph tweets:
@telegraphobits : Obit: Neil Armstrong: First American woman in space
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Daily Telegraph irony typo of the day
ONCE upon a time the Daily Telegraph was a great newspaper. Then it began to compete with the web and the Daily Mail and fell to bits. The paper’s typo of the day is loaded with irony:
Posted: 14th, June 2012 | In: Reviews | Comment (1)
RIP Ronald Searle a man proved right by the Daily Telegraph
RIP Ronald Searle, creator of the St Trinian’s comics and the brilliant Molesworth.
The Daily Telegraph’s obituary records that Seale complained of being “trivialised” and “typecast” in Britain.
Says the Telegraph:
Searle attempted to kill off St Trinian’s in 1953 to concentrate on what he considered to be his more serious work. But, much to his annoyance, a series of film adaptations meant that the spindly stockinged legs and dastardly schemes of his St Trinian’s girls remained his most distinctive trademark in Britain.
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Posted: 3rd, January 2012 | In: Celebrities | Comment
Dear God, even the Telegraph Can’t understand Corporate Tax
DO newspapers understand tax? No. We sorta expect this sort of thing from the Guardian or the Mirror. Not just whipping up people into paroxysms of rage about companies not paying their tax but not actually understanding what’s going on in the first place.
Now we appear to have the Telegraph again, not just whipping people up, but actually not understanding what in buggery’s going on at all.
Barclays stockpiles ‘losses’ to soften tax obligations
Barclays has amassed a war chest of “losses” to offset against future tax payments that can almost rival those at the crippled state-backed banks, despite remaining strongly profitable.
Yep, if you make a loss you can carry that loss forward to when you make a profit and set it off against that profit. Obviously.
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Daily Telegraph, Washington Post And Huffington Post Report Twitter Lie As Fact: Liege Killer ‘Nordine Amrani Was Muslim Terrorist’
NORDINE Amrani, 33, has killed five people and himself in Liege, Belgium. There is not a shred of evidence that this known criminal had any links to terrorism and militant Islam. But he did have an Islamic name. And that’s enough for the Telegraph to report:
The Karachi Post in Pakistan claimed that the attack was linked to a sentence in an honour killing case. It said the parents of Sadia Sheikh were sentenced on Monday when there had been a bomb alert in the court.
That line has now been removed.
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Posted: 13th, December 2011 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comment (1)
Margaret Moran: Daily Telegraph Lies Hidden Under A Hat And Tissues
MARGARET Moran is the Labour MP charged with fiddling her expenses to the tun of £80,000.
The Mail says:
From glam to ‘gran’: Extraordinary picture shows the toll expenses scandal has taken on ex-Labour MP Margaret Moran
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Posted: 20th, September 2011 | In: Politicians | Comments (2)
Daily Telegraph Says Glorious Sun’s Been Ruined By Wrong-Kind Of Rain: UK Drought Update
SEE all that rain. The Telegraph’s Peter Hutchison writes under the news:
After weeks of bone-dry conditions Britain’s gardeners and farmers were begging for rain. Yesterday it began coming down in bucket loads – but in entirely the wrong places.
Weeks of bone-dry conditions? The BBC’s weather bureaus tells us:
Whilst a stream of moisture-laden southwesterlies brought above average rainfall to Scotland and Northern Ireland through May, England and Wales were below par, not for the first time this year. This monthly outlook will do nothing to assuage the sense of grievance in all parts. Spring rainfall totals in parts of eastern England have fallen short of those recorded in 1976 and cereal farmers are already looking at a 10% reduction in yields. If there is no significant rain soon, 25-30% could be nearer the mark. Crop failure for some is a real possibility.
By contrast, parts of Scotland have recorded in excess of 460mm of rain in an exceptionally wet May: 150 times the rainfall of Kent and some three times above seasonal expectations.
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Daily Telegraph Says Madeleine McCann Is Dead
MADELEINE McCann is back in the news. And the Daily Telegraph is telling its readers:
“Kate McCann ‘felt like committing suicide after Madeleine’s death'”
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Posted: 9th, May 2011 | In: Madeleine McCann | Comment
Telegraph Backs Squatting And Daily Mail Watches Gaddafi’s Bins
SAIF Gaddafi’s London pile is being squatted by a group of anti-Saif Gaddafi and Colonel Gaddafi protestors. The Telegraph writes:
The Sunday Telegraph’s campaign against squatting can be relaxed when the victim is Saif Gaddafi.
Er…
Last week, The Sunday Telegraph launched a campaign to give the owners of squatted houses greater legal powers to regain the quiet enjoyment of their property, rather than stand helplessly by and see it abused and degraded.
There is a legal principle that stands higher than the law, however, and that is justice.
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Spurs Get New Ice Rink Stadium
APRIL FOOL! Which of these stories is true and which is not:
The Top Ten Failed April Fool’s Jokes
The Guardain:
Twitter switch for Guardian, after 188 years of ink
• Newspaper to be available only on messaging service
• Experts say any story can be told in 140 characters
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Sark Islanders Reject Barclay Bros And Stick With Feudalism
HAIL Sir David and Sir Frederick Barclay, who have, as the Telegraph reports (the paper they own), “carried out their threat to withdraw their multi-million pound investment in the Channel island of Sark after residents failed to back their supporters in the island’s first full parliamentary election”.
But the big spending guy always wins, right?
The Barclays, who live on the neighbouring island of Brecqhou, created employment for up to 140 people by investing £5 million per year in hotels and property on the tiny island, which has a population of 600.
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Posted: 12th, December 2008 | In: Politicians | Comments (4)
Baby P, Paedos And Dangers Of Groupthink
ANORAK has spent 18 months pointing out that paedophile abduction is a vanishingly rare occurrence; the belief that paedophile abductors are everywhere is a monstrous delusion which sells a lot of newspapers, and enables politicians to propose restrictions on everyone’s civil rights under the guise of protecting children. A bit like the War on Terror…
Journalists Paid By Number Of Paris Hilton Mentions
ARE newspapers to pay journalists by the number of comments their words receive on the web?
PETER Wilby, writing in the Guardian, considers the state of British newspapers in light of Russell Brand and Jonathan Ross’s telethon:
Even the Mail – perhaps reluctant to go overboard on a story broken by a Sunday in the same house – didn’t make it the splash, though it ran a front-page picture of Brand and inside, Melanie Phillips gave her usual imitation of a Victorian dowager who has overdosed on laudanum.
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Great Days In MSM: Telegraph Nearly Embeds Onion Video
BIG news online, via a press release (emailed!), is that the Telegraph Tabloid has signed a deal to publish 18 films by The Onion’s spoof 24-hour TV station.
It’s quite a coup.
Well, done to the Telegraph for moving with the times and getting one over all those other plodding old news organisations that merely click on Onion videos and “embed” the “code”…
Obama Undertakes Presidential Internship To Ease Concerns About His Lack Of Experience
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Madeleine McCann’s Halo 3: Selling Video Games And Making Jokes
MADDIE WATCH – Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann, Kate McCann and Gerry McCann
DAILY TELEGRAPH: “The News Quiz”
As The News Quiz returns, host Sandi Toksvig tells James Walton why it’s lasted so long – despite the ‘galling’ low pay she and her guests receive
Is Our Maddie fair game for comedy?
Needless to say, some news stories are funnier than others. (The show, for example, steered well clear of Madeleine McCann.) Fortunately, even in the darkest times, “politicians have the most staggering skill at producing material for us”. With that 66th series about to begin, Toksvig now finds herself “terribly grateful to Sarah Palin. For comedy writers, she’s just heaven.”
EUROGAMER: “Maddie reference spotted in Bungie trailer”
Speculation is mounting that the new trailer for Bungie’s next Halo project features a reference to missing five year-old Madeleine McCann.
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Posted: 26th, September 2008 | In: Broadsheets, Madeleine McCann | Comments (83)
BBC’s Undercover Soldier Offers No Right To Reply
JUDITH Towend on how the BBC’s undercover soldier stuffed up and offers no right to reply:
It’s a story that has seen a hive of online activity: the BBC puts a new reporter in the army for six months (he’s never worked in the media before); puts out a documentary, based on mainly anecdotal evidence; the army suspends five people (not clear how many were a result, if any, of the investigation); the mainstream media reports on the whole thing (Telegraph report linked here, as an example).
A Facebook group has been created criticising the reporter for the programme – suggesting he should be tried for treason – which at the time of writing has 1,460 members.
Yet nowhere on the BBC website is there anywhere to post a comment.
Russell Sharp, are you there..?
Posted: 24th, September 2008 | In: Reviews | Comments (2)
