Posts Tagged ‘jill dando’
Man knifed to death in Fulham: Jill Dando evoked
So how you report on the death of man in a fight in Fulham, south-west London? If you’re ITV News, you tell viewers that a 29-year-old man was stabbed to death “yards from where TV presenter Jill Dando was shot nearly 20 years ago”. Is that a line of enquiry?
And this on the BBC website:
The dead man was not shot. He was stabbed to death in a fight.
The dead man is named in the Sun as Nathaniel. We get that fact after the headline:
“Jill Dando murdered after blazing street row”. No. But who cares about journalism and facts when you can inject a celebrity element into a story of a young man losing his life?
Madeleine McCann Is Number One In The Top Ten Unsolved Crimes Hit Parade
MADELEINE McCann Watch: Anorak’s at-a-glance look at Madeleine McCann in the news – Our Maddie Tops the Top Ten Missing Unsolve Crimes.
Hats off to the Daily Telegraph for dreaming up The Top Ten Unsolved Crimes and putting Madeleine McCann front-page centre. The web loves Top Tens and with this one the Tabloidgraph should get loadsa traffic.
Beneath a picture of a grinning Madeleine McCann, Telegraph readers learn:
Richard Edwards: The question I get asked most: What happened to Madeleine McCann?
Edwards is the paper’s crime correspondent. Greetings, ghoul pickers. Here’s the official Top Ten of Crimes Unsolved:
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Posted: 24th, July 2009 | In: Madeleine McCann, Reviews | Comments (44)
Madeleine McCann: Rachel Nickell, Adam Walsh And Tabloid Bingo
MADDIE WATCH – Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann, Kate McCann and Gerry McCann; introducing the murder of Rachel Nickell and Adam Walsh
THE GUARDIAN: Pressure on police to find Wimbledon killer put the wrong man in the frame
Robert Napper killed Rachel Nickell. Colin Stagg did not kill Rachel Nickell. Napper murdered Nickell, stabbing her to death in front of her son on Wimbledon Common in July 1992.
The story is now added to that game we all love so much: Tabloid Bingo:
“…it had all the ingredients of the classic media murder story: the beautiful blonde victim, the lyrical summer setting, the child witness, the murderous stranger at large – and all taking place in Greater London. Inevitably, the police were under enormous and immediate pressure to capture the killer of someone whose face smiled out of the front pages of every newspaper.
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Posted: 19th, December 2008 | In: Madeleine McCann, Reviews | Comments (38)
Jill Dando Murder: Supporting Barry George’s Fight For Compensation
IN “Stalking telephone numbers.. – Barry George demands £4m compensation” the New of the World focuses on Barry George.
George is famous for being the one man we know for certain (it’s been established in a court of law) did not kill BBC presenter Jill Dando.
George served eight years in choky for a crime he did not commit. And now he is in line for compensation, as is his right. How much? Well, that’s up to the judiciary.
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Posted: 30th, November 2008 | In: Reviews | Comment (1)
Stalking Barry George’s Bottom
BARRY George has been cleared of killing Jill Dando. But the News of the World is keeping tabs on the man, stalking him, even.
In “Barry George in sex-pest clash on woman’s doorstep”, readers look on and see George asking a woman out; having his advances rejected; dodging a headbutt from the aforesaid woman’s son.
And just last week we revealed how he tried to get into a TV studio to see Sky News presenter Kay Burley, 46— who was then offered extra security.
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Posted: 12th, October 2008 | In: Reviews, Tabloids | Comments (5)
Daily Express To Be Edited By Robots
THE Daily Express and Sunday Express move one step closer to being written and edited by monkeys.
News is that subs are being sacked in favour of a new editorial system called Woodwing.
In a letter to the downtrodden, group managing editor Ian Parrott (all his own words) says the system will allow the paper to “revolutionise the way pages are written and edited and therefore reduce costs”.
(Image: Beau Bo D’Or Website)
He goes on to blame that ever-present excuse: my dog ate it, Miss. No, it’s the credit crunch, dummy:
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Posted: 11th, September 2008 | In: Money, Photojournalism, Tabloids | Comments (4)
