Posts Tagged ‘daily mail’
Daily Mail says before Cosmopolitan mag women reproduced by parthenogenesis
THE Daily Mail has an incredible front page. The headline: “Bittersweet legacy of the Cosmo Queen who invented sex.”
As Helen Lewis tweets:
Apparently before women’s magazines the human race reproduced by parthenogenesis:
Phwoar! Not ‘alf!
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Is The Daily Mail insane?
IS the Daily Mail insane? This headline is simply unbelievable:
Record number of buy-to-let mortgages worth more than £160bn drives up rent bills
In what universe does an increase in the number of houses for rent push up the rent of houses?
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Daily Mail says golden Olympic dressage hero Carl Hester is ‘gay’ – horse deeply upset
MORE dressage (say it to rhyme with message) rubbish in the tabloids as the Daily Mail proiles two part of Team GB’s ‘three-man’ winning Olympic team, Laura Bechtolsheimer and Charlotte Dujardin. Alison Boshoff and Katherine Faulkner combine heads to tell readers a bit about them and their team-mate Carl Hester:
Miss Dujardin lives in a small cottage on Hester’s equestrian estate with her fiancé Dean Golding and their boxer dog Winnie. She rides for up to six hours a day, and is superstitious – always wearing the same set of clothes to compete.
Hester, who is gay, allowed her to ride his young horse, Valegro, as a novice, planning to ride the animal himself when he reached international standard.
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Arsenal’s Robin Versie smiles through the agony
MORE football insight with the Daily Mail, which reports on Robin Van Persie’s training session with Arsenal in Germany. The headline tells readers:
Can I go now? United target Van Persie looks miserable at Arsenal training camp
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Daily Mail ogles ‘thin’ and underage Kylie Jenner
HAVING highlighted the dangers of objectifying thin women and sexualising the underage female, the Daily Mail looks at Kylie Jenner’s twitter feed and spots a photo of her in a bikini. It says:
Kylie, 14, meanwhile appeared a little more coy, hiding her face beneath her hair in an artsy shot. As she dangled her legs into the pool, she leaned back on her arms while displaying her equally trim figure for her two millions Twitter followers to ogle at.
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Posted: 5th, July 2012 | In: Celebrities | Comment
Daily Mail coos over toddler’s ‘slender’ legs and highlights deadly dangers of objectifying thin women
WHEN Rosie Whitaker, 15, took her own life, the Daily Mail sprung into action:
Her family believe Monday night’s tragedy came from reading and writing on websites where girls idealise slim celebrities such as Kate Moss, while describing how they cut themselves and contemplate taking their own lives. – Daily Mail June 13, 2012
The Mail yells: “Ban sick websites that drove out girl to despair.”
Idolising the thin is so wrong. Those sick websites that support the myth that thin equals happy and desirable must be banned.
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Daily Mail uses death video to sell Eiffel Tower suicide story
HOW does the Daily Mail illustrate the news that a young Israeli man has climbed to the top of the Eiffel Tower and chucked himself off? He had no parachute. He died. Why with an old Pathe newsreel of a man named Franz Reichelt falling to his death from the Paris landmark.
See, suicide wannabes, your death will live on for decades.
The Daily Mail will make suicide entertaning…
Daily Mail rips off Daily Mirror’s Everton transfer scoop word for word
HOW the old media works: Tabloid Watch notices that Daily Mirror’s report on the rumour that Everton are in the running for Mario Mandzukic, the Croatia striker. Transfer rumours are the lifeblood of the backpage fillers. The tabloid rule is that all the big clubs should be the subject of one transfer rumour a day.
On June 15, the Mirror’s Simon Bird wrote:
Everton are trailing Croatia striker Mario Mandzukic – and could land him for a bargain £7million. The Croatia hitman, one of the stars of Euro 2012 so far with his three goals in two games, could be paired with team mate Nikica Jelavic at Goodison Park. Mandzukic is on the radar of other Premier League sides too, because he is available at a “fair” price from his German club, Wolfsburg.
The 26-year-old was signed by Wolfsburg’s then-coach Steve McClaren – a friend of Everton boss David Moyes’ No2 Steve Round – for £6million and has two years left on his contract. Everton were also interested in him two years ago, when he played for Dinamo Zagreb, and have had Mandzukic watched during the Euros. His partnership with Jelavic at international level is thriving and could be rekindled on Merseyside.
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How much alcohol should you drink a day? The Daily Mail knows
THE Daily Mail is here to help with your alcohol content:
On 7 September 2011, thee news was that two drinks a day was great. Then on May 31, 2012, the Mail told readers that three glasses a week was the limit.
Daily Mail says Adolph Eichmann isn’t dead (yet)
ITS 50 years since Adolf Eichmann was found working for Mercedes Benz in Argentina, smuggled to Israel, tried and executed.
Who better than the once Nazi-loving Daily Mail to write about Life magazine photographer Gjon Mili’s snaps of the mass murderer in his cell?
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Posted: 1st, June 2012 | In: Reviews | Comments (2)
The truth about the Daily Mail’s poison Nurofen panic
WHEN the Daily Mail thundered”PAINKILLER ‘SABOTAGED – Animal rights protestors suspected of tampering with Nurofen” we blanched. Time to toss away those over-the-counter pain relief capsules. This sounded serious. The Mail added: “‘Saboteur’ puts up to 500,000 powerful anti-psychotic drugs in packets of Nurofen Plus sold in the UK.”
The paper warned us:
“Dangerous anti-psychotic drugs may have been deliberately placed in thousands of packets of Nurofen Plus by animal rights activists, it emerged last night… It is suspected militant activists carried out the sabotage operation with the intention of damaging Nurofen Plus’s makers, Reckitt Benckiser. The company may have been targeted because it tests its products on animals.”
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Bullshit.com – How To Make Your Website Like The Daily Mail’s – a photo lesson
IN today’s extract from Bullshit.com – How To Making Your Website Like The Daily Mail’s, we turn back the clock to July 2009. Bettina Vetta is showcasing the Mail’s new editorial policy of finding photos of a celebrities riding high on the news cycle and making up a story around them. “Insert caption here”, if you please…
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The Daily Mail’s bird brained ‘elf and safety hysterics with the Carshalton Ponds firemen
WHEN the Daily Mail highlighted the madness of 25 “foremen” racing to save a bird in Carshalton Ponds, South London, we clacked our marmalade-coated tongues and knew if was ‘efl and safety gone mad.
The Daily Mail’s Eleanor Harding and Mark Duell (two tabloid writers for one bird in a pond?! – ed) thundered:
It looked like a major emergency – 25 firemen standing at the water’s edge assessing the life-threatening situation before them.Stranded 200ft out and struggling for survival was the victim they had come to rescue…a seagull.
And if that scenario were not ludicrous enough, there was worse to come.The firemen were then barred from going into the 3ft-deep water because it was judged to be a health and safety risk.
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Posted: 23rd, April 2012 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comments (6)
Cannabis and the Daily Mail’s schizophrenia scaremongering
WHEN the Daily Mail told its readers “Just ONE cannabis joint ‘can bring on schizophrenia’ as well as damaging memory” back on October 25, 2011, we wondered. Could it be true? Well, no. It wasn’t. A mere five months later, on pril 3, 2012, the Mail wrote:
A report on research by the University of Bristol on 26 October was headlined ‘One cannabis joint “can bring on schizophrenia”.’ We are happy to clarify that, as the article explained, the research on rats found that the active ingredient in cannabis could induce symptoms similar to schizophrenia, rather than schizophrenia itself.
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Posted: 10th, April 2012 | In: Reviews | Comment (1)
Liz Jones is the Daily Mail’s hait-bait: Samantha Brick and Kate Middleton get trolled
WHEN Liz Jones read about Samantha Brick, the woman set up to be the Daily Mail’s go-too hate figure of the day, she knew she had to step up her game. At the morning editorial, the paper’s misogynistic editors looked at the usual faces – Brick, Platell, Moir, The White Witch, Cruella de Vil, Lady Macbeth – and wondered which would pen the troll-bait. And then in stepped Liz Jones, dressed in a blazer and air stewardess scarf. Her hair is pushed back behind one ear. She clasps her hands over her stomach. She smiles. And the blind man at the back of the room screams, “Lumme! It’s Kate Middleton.”
Liz will be the tabloid tampon soaking by bile and vitriol. She will be make a ridiculous, self-aggrandising statement – “Is Liz Jones turning into Kate Middleton? – and have her breasts and mind appraised by a willing commentariat eager to stick the knife in and in and in and keep on plunging until the story bleeds all over the internet and makes the Mail famous on Twitter, Facebook and beyond.
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Posted: 5th, April 2012 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comments (2)
Samantha Brick: When Craig Brown and Jan Moir collaborate for the Daily Mail the results are wonderful
“SAMANTHA Brick” has penned an article in the Daily Mail that explains why she is hated because she is beautiful. After a few hundred words, it becomes clear that there are a myriad reasons to dislike or even hate La Brick, and only one of them is her alleged beauty.
Brick is 40 years old. Her blog informs us:
Samantha juggles life as a freelance TV consultant, journalist, writer, yogi and, of course, French housewife (still very much in training alas).
If you do not already dislike her or see her as work of parody, you’re on the wrong website.
Says Brick:
Throughout my adult life, I’ve regularly had bottles of bubbly or wine sent to my restaurant table by men I don’t know.
Because you dress like a sexually available drunk? No. It’s because “my pleasing appearance and pretty smile made their day”.
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Posted: 3rd, April 2012 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comments (13)
Exposed: Daily Mail’s anti-Muslim bollocks on honour killings
MORE anti-Muslim bias in thd Daily Mail, this time on the issue of honour killings and crimes. The paper’s Leon Watson’s name appear on the March 19 story:
Most young British Muslims support violence against women who ‘dishonour’ their families, a Panorama investigation will claim today
Only not all Asian are Muslims. The poll stated:
TWO-THIRDS OF YOUNG ASIANS AGREE FAMILIES SHOULD LIVE ACCORDING TO – THE CONCEPT OF “HONOUR” NEW POLL SUGGESTS
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Posted: 29th, March 2012 | In: Reviews | Comments (4)
Danny Gold understands the Daily Mail – and will bring about its fall in America
Posted: 13th, March 2012 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comments (3)
How the Daily Mail turned Lyn-Marie Cunliffe into the ‘mad’ Bronte woman
UNABLE to call upon armed police to correct the journalist’s work, Lyn-Marie Cunliffe was forced to write letters and complain verbally. The Daily Mail, Guardian, Express and Telegraph had reported that Lyn-Marie Cunliffe was a bit unusual.
SHE is a 21st-century housewife with a husband and two grown-up children. But Lyn-Marie Cunliffe spends every day dressed as her heroine – Victorian author Charlotte Bronte. She doesn’t wear modern attire even when grabbing a bite in McDonald’s. The 49-year-old harboured a lifelong obsession with the Jane Eyre author’s works before deciding three years ago she wanted to live in a time-warp…
Lyn-Marie estimates she has spent £4,000 making more than 50 period costumes but insists she has the full support of joiner husband John, 50 – “my Mr Rochester” – and children Rebecca, 24, and Matthew, 27.
The Daily Mail:
Do you come Eyre often?
Many of us dream of wearing the beautiful costumes from period dramas like Downton Abbey… however few would go quite as far as donning them every day. But romantic fiction-lover, Lyn-Marie Cunliffe, has taken her obsession with Victorian literature to the extreme – by living her modern life dressed as her heroine Charlotte Bronte. The 49-year-old loves the 19th century author so much that she dresses like her all the time – even on trips to the supermarket.
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Daily Mail Health Tuesday – dying in your sleeping pills catching Judi Dench
IT’S Health Tuesday in the Daily Mail: More news ways to get ill and die…
Page 6: “Doctors acting like vets with dementia patients'”
Page 13: “Sleeping pill users ‘up to 5 times more likely to die early”
In their sleep..?
Page 15: “Even mild hearing loss can treble the chance of a fall”
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Posted: 28th, February 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Daily Mail says nutritionists it promotes put health at risk – massive fail
HEALTH Tuesday – the Daily Mail’s weekly look at new ways to die features an article on nutritionists by Louise Atkinson:
EXPOSED: The nutrition therapists who puts your health at risk.
Louise Atkinson has news:
The therapist peered at my tongue. ‘Should I be worried about bowel cancer?’ I asked her. I’d told her about my changed bowel habits over the past six months, weight loss, fatigue and dark stools.
Louis is talking shit – literally.
Last month an alarming report by the consumer organisation Which? highlighted the risks posed by rogue nutritionists. All are classic symptoms of bowel cancer that, to a GP, would flag up the need for further investigation. I’d even mentioned that my father had died of the disease.
But the therapist seemed unconcerned: ‘Oh, you don’t need to worry about having cancer,’ she said. ‘I can tell you’re quite well. You’d be much better off thinking about changes you can make to your diet to help you prevent cancer.’ She recommended I cut out sugar (‘because cancers feed on sugar’) to reduce my risk.
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Posted: 23rd, February 2012 | In: Key Posts | Comment (1)
Daily Mail duped by fake snow over Lutterworth Leicestershire
THE Daily Mail has been duped into publishing a story about the BBC. The Mail received a photo purporting to show a screen grab of snow in Lutterworth Leicestershire. There was no snow. BBC viewer Shanda Lear does not exist. It was a fake produced by Jody Kirton of Flex Media to test the theory that the MailOnline posts any old crap, and hang the research.
The Mail’s Simon Tomlinson took the bait. He writes:
It was meant to draw attention to the heavy snowfall which has started to blanket parts of the UK. But when a viewer’s picture was shown on BBC News, all eyes were quickly diverted to the rather illuminating name of the person who sent it in. Below the scene of snow-covered cars along a misty street in Lutterworth, Leicestershire, the name Shanda Lear popped up, much to the amusement of those watching.
Posted: 2nd, February 2012 | In: Reviews | Comments (4)
The Rosat satellite, World War 3 and Daily Mail plagiarism
DID you know that Beijing, China, was “seven minutes from destruction’ when a 2.5 ton satellite crashed to Earth at 300mph“?
Allan Hall and Katie Silver have facts in the Daily Mail:
Seven minutes saved huge areas of Beijing from destruction last year when a 2.5 ton satellite hurtled towards earth, it has been revealed.
The Roentgen Satellite (Rosat) re-entered the Earth’s atmosphere between 01:45 and 02:15 GMT on October 23, 2011.
The Chinese capital was directly in the flight path of Germany’s research satellite Rosat when it plunged into the Bay of Bengal last October, two decades after it’s launch. The consequences of chunks of the 2.5 ton satellite falling into the city would have been catastrophic; huge craters, shattered fuel lines, explosions, wrecked buildings and untold human casualties…
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Posted: 31st, January 2012 | In: Technology | Comment
Daily Mail misread the data – more people are in favour of gay marriage
WHEN the Daily Mail reported back in September 2011 that “Most Britons still oppose gay marriage”, we read on.
The article by “STEVE DOUGHTY, SOCIAL AFFAIRS CORRESPONDENT” – (more on him here) stated:
“Most people still oppose gay marriage and the adoption of children by same-sex couples, a Government report revealed yesterday”
More than half believe homosexual marriages should not be allowed and two thirds think the adoption of children by same-sex couples should not have become legal nine years ago. The findings from the Office for National Statistics suggest the Coalition’s plans to upgrade civil partnership laws to let gay couples describe themselves as married may prove unpopular.
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Posted: 26th, January 2012 | In: Reviews | Comment (1)
Daily Mail mocks Etta James in death
ETTA James has died. The Daily Mail signals this passing by announcing: “At Last singer Etta James dies after battle with leukaemia”.
Etta James sang the song At Last. She sang lots of other songs.
At Last was a song written in 1941 song by Mack Gordon and Harry Warren. James recorded her version in 1960. To our mind James is most famous for The Wallflower (Dance with Me, Henry) and her wonderful rendition of I’d Rather Go Blind.
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