Posts Tagged ‘daily mail’
Google Concedes Defeat To Daily Mail On War Over Sexualised Kids: ‘We Can’t Compete’ Say Online Giant
THE Daily Mail is celebrating a win in its crusade to ban all other organs from publishing racy photos and filthy words on children.
Perverts into that kind of thing can go here, here, here, here, here, here and here.
And here.
In 2007 The Daily Mail Predicted This England Team: Only Arsenal’s Walcott Made It
IN 2007, the Daily Mail’s predicted which tyros would make the England team of the future.
They get one right. Admittedly, Micah Richard looked a good bet to an England regular. But some of the other you’d be hard placed to recognise in their own lounges.
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The BBC and the Guardian’s London chatterati v Paul Dacre and the Daily Mail’s Middle England
PAUL Dacre, editor of the Daily Mail, has written a reply to the fallout from his paper’s article on Ralph Miliband, Ed Miliband’s Jewish, Marxist father. Some said the article was anti-Semitic. Dacre’s article appears in the Mail and the Guardian. (If you want to know how the Guardian has viewed Jews, you should read this.)
The Mail’s “The Man Who Hated Britain” story might just about be the Mail’s ultimate trolling feature. It got everyone talking, polarised views – if you like the Mail, you don’t much mind the story; if you dislike the Mail you hate the story – and introduced most of us to Paul Dacre, a man who would be simply fantastic as a judge on reality TV shows (you heard it here first).
Says Dacre:
“The screech of axe-grinding was deafening as the paper’s enemies gleefully leapt to settle scores. Leading the charge, inevitably, was The Mail’s bête noir, the BBC… Is it fanciful to believe that his real purpose in triggering last week’s row – so assiduously supported by the liberal media which sneers at the popular press – was an attempt to neutralise Associated [Associated Press owns the Mail]…
“Some have argued that last week’s brouhaha shows the need for statutory press regulation. I would argue the opposite. The febrile heat, hatred, irrationality and prejudice provoked by last week’s row reveals why politicians must not be allowed anywhere near press regulation. And while the Mail does not agree with the Guardian over the stolen secret security files it published, I suggest that we can agree that the fury and recrimination the story is provoking reveals again why those who rule us – and who should be held to account by newspapers – cannot be allowed to sit in judgment on the press.”
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The ‘Daily Mail Hates Britain’ protest in photos
DID you go to the anti-Daily Mail protest? The ‘Daily Mail Hates Britain’ protest, organised by the People’s Asssembly, took place outside the Daily Mail newspaper headquarters, in London on Sunday, Oct. 6, 2013. The newspaper ran a story that smeared the reputation of Ralph Miliband, the father of Britain’s Labour party leader, Ed. Ralph Miliband – a noted Marxist academic – appeared under the headline: “The man who hated Britain”. It was revolting:
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Irony Overload: The Guardian says the Daily Mail is anti-Semitic
WHEN it comes to talking of anti-Semitism in newspapers, who better than the Guardian to bring the Daily Mail to order over its Ralph Miliband hatchet job? The Guardian is the paper in which Richard Imgram told readers:
I have developed a habit when confronted by letters to the editor in support of the Israeli government to look at the signature to see if the writer has a Jewish name. If so, I tend not to read it.
The Guardian is subtle in its bigotry, doing down the Jews claims to a homeland.
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Posted: 6th, October 2013 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comment
How tabloids work: the Daily Mail’s Scotland Yard Super Recognisers scoop
HOW tabloids work: the headline-story mismatch.
Scotland Yard’s Super Paul NEVER forgets a face:
Unless he does:
More facts to follow…
Bayern Munich sign Manchester United’s Robert Lewandowski, says the Sun
SO. Borussia Dortmund striker Robert Lewandowski is not going to play for Manchester United. He confirmed that he is to join Bayern Munich at the end of the current season, also claiming that he will be signing a pre-contract agreement with Pep’s side in January just to nail his move down.
When asked directly by Sport1 reporters if he would be confirming his move to the Allianz Arena in January, Lewandowski replied: “Yes, because then I can officially sign the contract.”
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The Daily Mail returns to leer at ‘leggy’ nine-year-old Leni Klum
THE Daily Mail continues to leer at young girls.
Back in January, thy Mail said that Heidi Klum’s daughter was a “leggy beauty”.
Heidi Klum’s daughter is eight years old. She is the Mail’s “lovely Leni”.
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Posted: 23rd, September 2013 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts | Comment
Reporter on Daily Mail drugs sting bought garden herbs
THE Irish Daily Mail wants to highlight the ease with which a journalist can buy marijuana:
“THE ease with which illegal drugs can be bought online is revealed today in an Irish Daily Mail undercover operation. Our reporter was able to click on a website, send an email and a short time later, pay a small-time dealer €50 for three grams of marijuana on a busy Dublin street… The illegal substance was then handed over to the gardaí, and full details of the transaction reported to them.”
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Posted: 7th, September 2013 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comment
The media-stoked moral panic over Ask.fm suicides and Twitter hate
TROLLING is big news. The latest story is that young people using the site Ask.fm are dying. This follows news that women are being subjected to vile abuse on Twitter. But only women to whom the mass media is sympathetic are featured as victims. And that is odd.
The Daily Mail delivers the case for the prosecution in bullet points.
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Posted: 7th, August 2013 | In: Key Posts, Reviews, Technology | Comment (1)
Pregnant women warned drinking wine makes your baby develop into a Daily Mail reader
PHEW! Cancel the opiates and Prozac. The Daily Mail has news on pregnant women and stress relief:
Mums-to-be ‘CAN have a glass of wine a day without harming their child’s development’
Who gave them permission?
Having a glass of wine a day during pregnancy may not harm the child’s development, claim researchers. A large new study says the children of mothers who drank ‘moderately’ in pregnancy actually grew up to have better balance than those who abstained.
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Posted: 28th, June 2013 | In: Reviews, The Consumer | Comment
Daily Mail fails to mention Richard Littlejohn’s part in the trial and death of Lucy Meadows
IT’S time for Richard Littlejohn to show remorse – and if we think coroner’s attack on the Press was out of order, then we still haven’t learnt our lesson
Admitting that you were wrong can be unpleasant. Admitting that you have done something bad can be terrifying. Remember staring at scuffed sandals rather than at the teacher who ‘could wait all day’ for some hapless culprit to put up their hand?
Newspapers don’t like admitting it when they get something wrong. Most have a corrections and clarifications slot, but this is for misspellings of names or inaccurate historical dates. When they get something seriously wrong it generally goes upstairs to the lawyers, who will wriggle a bit and haggle a lot until money changes hands and suddenly it all goes away.
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Posted: 2nd, June 2013 | In: Reviews | Comment (1)
Daily Mail spots trolls in Wayne Rooney’s family album
THE Daily Mail’s editorial meetings must be great. Back in February 2013, Laura Cox noted that nasty people had been saying nasty things about a baby. The headline told readers:
Twitter trolls target Fearne Cotton’s baby boy over parents’ decision to name him Rex
Then in March, Laura Cox noted that after Wayne Rooney’s second son had been born, nasty people had been saying nasty things about a baby:
ONCE, his arrival would have been marked with a simple newspaper announcement. Sadly for Klay Rooney, times have changed. His parents chose to share their joy at his birth yesterday on Twitter – and it didn’t take long for the internet trolls to respond.
As ever, the people on twitter were “bullies”.
A short time later Claudia Connell told, erm, Mail readers about Wayne Rooney’s son Kai:
Naming your new baby the B-list way…
Is that just catty or bullying? And someone tell Cox not to both sitting on Twitter all day looking for trolls. A quick walk about the Mail’s newsroom should provide rich pickings…
Why does the Daily Mail have a sudden and urgent desire to understand transsexuals?
WHEN Richard Littlejohn attacked transsexual Lucy Meadows for working as a female teacher after her gender reassignment, his Daily Mail article was met with howls of protest and calls for his head. A short time after Littlejohn’s piece, Meadows took her own life. Many saw a link between the Mail’s coverage and her suicide. A vigil was held outside the Daily Mail offices in Kensington.
The Mail removed the article from its website.
This month, the Mail changed direction. An article by Jane Fae was entitled:
Prejudice. Abuse. And surgery that needs nerves of steel. A brave and moving account of… The cruel reality of feeling Nature trapped you in the wrong sex
Here, JANE FAE sets out her own experiences of being transgender — as well as the prejudice she’s faced — and challenges misconceptions about the issue…
This is the same Fae, who in reaction to the Littlejohn article wrote in the New Statesman:
“[Meadows] talks of her good luck in having a supportive head. But the stress of her situation is also visible. She complains bitterly of how she must leave her house by the back door, and arrive at school very early, or very late, in order to avoid the press pack. She talks of the press offering other parents money for a picture of her; of how in the end they simply lifted an old picture from the Facebook pages of her brother and sister without permission. A Year 5 drawing removed from the school website was simply recovered through the magic of caching.”
She spoke of Leveson:
Where is the public interest, beyond the pro-family moral agenda, proudly proclaimed by Daily Mail editor Paul Dacre in front of the Leveson Inquiry? Were this a trans woman stealing money to fund gender re-assignment, there might be a story. Or a trans patient going on the rampage. Though in both cases, the real-and-unlikely-to-be-addressed question might still be: why would an individual act in this way?
And in death, the disrespect, the “monstering”, as some commentators have described it, continues. Ms Meadows broke everything in her life for one desperate reason: to be the woman she knew she was…
Yet it is the same old, same old. In death, the most venial of politicians and press barons are usually airbrushed into almost-sainthood. Not the trans community. For without any possibility of legal retribution, the “tranny freak” is now “fair game”.
Just, I would suggest, as the whining, crocodile tearing lily-livered national press of this country. Maybe they played no great part in this tragedy. But they tried. And for that, they stand guilty as any common thug or thief in the night.
Not fair? No. Nor was Lucy’s death.
Odd, indeed, how the Mail has changed direction so suddenly. And as one voice notes, the paper’s readers are being untypically fair. MandyB writes on the Angels Forum:
The comments are so universally positive and out of step with the usual DM comment that the cynic in me wonders if they are being moderated. Either way, the DM deserves some credit for the long overdue change of approach. I hope it continues.
Further oddness is that neither the article nor any of the published comments mention Meadows. It’s like it never happened…
Posted: 16th, May 2013 | In: Reviews | Comments (2)
Daily Mail perverts Occupy London rape case to damn all protestors
MALCOLM Blackman, 45, is accused of raping a woman in her 40s at the Occupy London Stock Exchange champ outside St Paul’s Cathedral. The alleged victim – who gets to remain anonymous – was allegedly attacked in her tent on the steps of St Paul’s Cathedral. She further alleges that Blackman tied her hands behind her back with cable ties and on another occasion assaulted her in her sleep.
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Lucy Meadows, Jacintha Saldanha and the Daily Mail’s ‘culture of casual cruelty’
SOME say Lucy Meadows died as a result of what Richard Littlejohn said in his Daily Mail column. Littlejohn ‘monstered’ the teacher who had left the Lancashire school the male Nathan Upton and returned as the female Lucy Meadows.
Your view of the story may well rest on your view of the Mail and Littlejohn. But here’s what the Daily Mail said when Australian radio DJs pranked Jacintha Saldanha, a nurse in the hospital where pregnancy Duchess Kate was being treated for morning sickness. Saldanha, a parent (like Meadows) soon after putting through a bogus call to Kate’s rooms was found hanged.
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Newspaper Shocker! Daily Mail Actually Helps Someone!
THE was an incredible piece in the Mail four months back. It was all about how a couple with kids on £75k a year just didn’t have any money, weren’t paying off the capital on their mortgage, didn’t have any savings and boo hoo hoo. At the time all of the comments were about just what it was they were doing: what simple damn mistake were they making? Sure, £75k’s not going to turn the head of any investment bankers but it’s still a decent enough chunk of change.
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Daily Mail takes on Mumsnet and loses horribly
HOW media works: Zoe Brennan wants readers of Mumsnet to help her with a story:
I am writing a feature for The Daily Mail about the increase in the number of children being sent to A&E. Figures released earlier this week show an increasing number of youngsters are sent direct to hospital, because GPs are reluctant to treat children. Babies in particular. This means long waits, and inappropriate care. Has your child been sent to A&E with a common infection or minor injury by your GP or NHS Direct? Have you an opinion on this subject, as a parent?
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Posted: 25th, February 2013 | In: Reviews | Comment (1)
Pregnant Evan Rachel Wood slams the Daily Mail for perving at her unborn baby
THE Daily Mail is aghast and dismayed at the behaviour of Chi magazine in publishing pictures of pregnant Kate Middleton, Duchess of Cambridge.
It’s called Chi “tawdry” and “cheap“. Those swine will stoop low to get photos of celebs.
The Mail, of course, took the pledge never again to publish paparazzi photos. It did that to honour Princess Diana. On 8 September 1997, eight days after the death of Princess Diana, the Mail wrote:
Mail leads the way in banning paparazzi pictures.
The proprietor of the Daily Mail, Mail on Sunday and Evening Standard announced last night that his papers will not in future purchase pictures taken by paparazzi Viscount Rothermere, chairman of the Daily Mail and General Trust plc said: ‘I am, and always have been, an admirer of Diana, Princess of Wales, and nagged my editors to protect her so far as they could against her powerful enemies. In view of Earl Spencer’s strong words and my own sense of outrage, I have instructed my editors no ‘paparazzi’ pictures are to be purchased without my knowledge and consent.’
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Posted: 14th, February 2013 | In: Celebrities | Comment
Kate Middleton’s bikini: Quentin Letts says Chi magazine is Cheap – Daily Mail is cheaper
DOES the Daily Mail’s Quentin Letts read his own paper? Appearing on a This Morning chat about Kate Middlton’s pregnanct tum-tum, and Chi magazine’s photos of it wearing a bikini in the Caribbean, Letts opened that the magazione might be called “Cheap:. The Mail had already called it “tawdry“. Would this be the same Mail that pervs at underage girls and publishes paparazzi photographs of pregnant women in bikinis?
I think it might be…
PS – This Morning then duly flashed up the photos of Kate in her bikini. Letts did not storm off.
Posted: 13th, February 2013 | In: Royal Family | Comment
The Daily Mail reaches the heights: A-listers parade their ears
THE Daily Mail has a well-earned reputation online for spinning a story from a paparazzi photo of a celebrity in a bikini. The story routinely includes the words “[insert name] parades her figure” or “[insert name] parades her pregnancy bump”, “[insert name] parades her curves” or “[insert name] parades her breasts / buttock. thighs“. So. Mail writer Clare Coulson got to thinking. And she’s come up with anew angle: ears.
Showing off their ear-ogenous zones: The bizarre body part the A-listers are flashing on the red carpet
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Posted: 8th, February 2013 | In: Celebrities | Comment
Daily Mail launches Knackers Mothers’ Wine Club day after warning or women ‘killed by alcohol’
THE Daily Mail wants to talk to you about wine. On January 25, the warning was that you women are going to die from drink:
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Daily Mail pervs at Heidi Klum’s 8-year-old daughter Leni
THE DAILY Mail loves underage girls. It likes to watch them. In 2011, the Mail spotted Heidi Klum’s daughter Leni:
As the daughter of a supermodel and a chart-topping singer, little Helene Samuel was bound to be talented. But it seems that ballet may be the blonde-haired youngster’s passion. The five-year-old arrived for her dance class today…
Ah, those passionate tots in tutus. In March 2011, the Mail said Leni was aged five.
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Posted: 28th, January 2013 | In: Celebrities | Comment (1)
Sugar: the latest godawful health scare
IT has to be the Mail reporting this, doesn’t it? But here it is, the shocking news that UK cereals contain more sugar than US cereals.
Breakfast cereals sold in Britain contain as much as 30 per cent more sugar than the same products in the United States.
Posted: 14th, January 2013 | In: Money, The Consumer | Comment
The Daily Mail is funnier than The Big Fat Quiz of the Year
THE Daily Mail did not enjoy Channel 4’s Big Fat Quiz of the Year. Anyone who watches a Channel 4 panel-based comedy show pretty much deserves what they get, but the Mail was aghast:
“A primetime Channel 4 quiz in which drunken comedians made obscene jokes about the Queen has outraged viewers. The Big Fat Quiz Of 2012, which featured countless vile sexual jokes, was broadcast on Sunday only seconds after the 9pm watershed….Last night TV watchdog Ofcom confirmed it had already received complaints.”
How many?
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Posted: 4th, January 2013 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
