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Daily Mail Health Scare Tuesday: Autumn Makes You Bald
IT’S Health Tuesday in the Daily Mail: be afraid:
Page 9: “Are vitamin pills really good for you? Some may increase health risks, say scientists”
Page 14: “A £391 to park in your own street – or how freezing council tax will cost us all MORE”
Page 23: “Yes, Nancy, you can escape the shadow of Paul’s love for Linda – An open letter from Lindsay Nicholson, who remarried after the death of a husband she adored”
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Daily Mail Infiltrated By Muslim Marxists: Is Daily Mail Reporter A BBC Operative?
THE Daily Mail has been banging on about the BBC ending the use of BC and AD, replacing Christianity with Common Era (CE) and Before Common Era (BCE). The Daily Mail would never stoop to political correctness, Islam and Marxist ideology. Until it did. The hard working ‘Daily Mail Reporter’ received this press release from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics:
A thousand years ago, a brilliant beacon of light blazed in the sky, shining brightly enough to be seen even in daytime for almost a month. Native American and Chinese observers recorded the eye-catching event. We now know that they witnessed an exploding star, which left behind a gaseous remnant known as the Crab Nebula.
The same object that dazzled skygazers in 1054 C.E. continues to dazzle astronomers today by pumping out radiation at higher energies than anyone expected.
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Posted: 7th, October 2011 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comment
Daily Mail Writer Nick Pisa Explains Amanda Knox’s Guilt
IN reaction to the Daily Mail’s now famous flight of fancy in its report on the ‘guilty verdict and failed appeal‘ [sic] against innocent Amanda Knox , our pal Tim Ireland writes to Mail clairvoyant Nick Pisa, aka Nick Pisa Pie. Pisa has also worked on the Meredith Kercher case for the Daily Mirror.
He offered in 2009:
With her wide smile and calm demeanour party girl Amanda Knox looks as if she is off to have fun yesterday – not facing trial for murder.
With a touch of make-up and dressed in a hooded grey sweatshirt and jeans, the woman dubbed Foxy Knoxy beamed as she was led into court, smirked while holding a book on the Italian penal code and joked with her interpreter.
You can read about that Knox smile here.
You can read about Pisa’ latest reporting masterclass here:
from Tim Ireland
to nickpisa[AT]yahoo.com
date Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 8:56 AM
subject Your talent for inventionDear Nick,
Do you have any response to the evidence that you and relevant Daily Mail staff were prepared to go to print with [an] entirely invented accounts of events, reactions and statements that you could not possibly have witnessed?
http://www.mailwatch.co.uk/2011/10/03/invented-eyewitness-accounts/This is what I have prepared in advance;
“Oh, do calm down; EVERYBODY does it,” said a clearly emotional Pisa before calling his critics names and running away.
If you would prefer me to report something you actually said, rather than what I expected you to say, then please do get in touch.
Cheers
Tim Ireland
www.bloggerheads.com
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Posted: 4th, October 2011 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comments (2)
How The Islamophobic Daily Mail Spun A Lie About The BBC Banning BC And AD
HAVE you been following the Daily Mail’s news that the BBC has banned the use of BC and AD on dates? Did you know that the BBC has changed BC and AD to the more “politically correct” CE and BCE?
Chris Hastings, Melanie Phillips (who deep into her rant admitted that she herself prefers to use “BCE” and “CE”) and Peter Hitchens were all on mesage. James Delingpole agreed. Yep, the BBC was banning Jesus, and in so doing was letting in the Marxists and destroying the country’s moral fabric. The BBC said the story was untrue. But the Mail knew that it alone was correct – even if proof said otherwise.
We were given a list of suspects:
The BBC’s religious and ethics department says the changes are necessary to avoid offending non-Christians… Some of the BBC’s most popular programmes including University Challenge, presented by Jeremy Paxman, and Radio 4’s In Our Time, hosted by Melvyn Bragg, are among the growing number of shows using the new descriptions.
The Mail even spotted a Muslim:
The website for BBC Religion and Ethics, headed by commissioning editor Aaqil Ahmed, who is a Muslim, is littered with references to Common Era and Before Common Era
Those words replaced an earlier caption which said:
the Corporation say, bizarrely, the change has nothing to [do] with Mr Ahmed
The Mail has form on the news that the BBC is anti-Christian:
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Posted: 3rd, October 2011 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comments (2)
How To Write A Feature For The Daily Mail (Like Sophie Walker But Not Anna Bundy)
ANNA Bundy wants to tell you what it’s like writing a feature for the Daily Mail. Anorak has some experience of this. My friend Sophie Walker once worked at the Mail’s Femail section. Sophie’s own lifestyle and views were so removed from the Mail’s mawkish, reactionary agenda she seemed utterly wrong for the job. But she could write and research very well, and she needed the work:
Anyone who has ever written a feature for the Daily Mail knows what it feels like. You only have to read the features pages to understand that something strange is going on – lots of first person pieces all written in the same style, with the same vocabulary, the same mawkish self-revelatory nature and bizarre turn of phrase. Who are these people who all write exactly alike, suffer bereavements, mental health problems, addictions and family troubles, wear brightly-coloured dresses and too much make-up?
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Health Scare Tuesday: Your Genitals Are Shrinking In The Daily Mail
IT’S Health Scare Tuesday in the Daily Mail – News Ways To Die Every Week!
Front page: “Don’t Give Out Cancer Drugs If It’s Just To Extend Life”
“How a coffee can cheer you up”
What? The coffee that gives your children cancer?!
“The dolphins vanishing from the Cornish coast”
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Posted: 27th, September 2011 | In: Reviews | Comments (2)
Daily Mail Lies When It Says BBC Bans BC And AD
MELANIE Phillips want to talk to Daily Mail readers about “one of the most cynical aspects of political correctness is the way in which its edicts purport to be in the interests of minority groups”.
She adds:
The latest manifestation stars once again that all-time world champion of political correctness, the BBC. Apparently, it has decided that the terms AD and BC (Anno Domini, or the Year of Our Lord, and Before Christ) must be replaced by the terms Common Era and Before Common Era.
Only, it hasn’t.
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Posted: 26th, September 2011 | In: Reviews | Comment (1)
Daily Mail Scare Stories: Missing A Period Gives You Cancer
SCARE Stories: It’s Health Tuesday In The Daily Mail:
“Can’t resist cake? Blame your brain – Scientists have found that a key part of the brain which stops the body from acting on impulse – and gorging – does not function as well in those who are overweight or obese.”
Yep, not only are you fat but your brain is failing.
“Why can’t Hollywood make great movies anymore?”
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Women-Hating Daily Mail Hits Out At Other Vile Internet Scum Who Criticise Women Online
THE Daily Mail delivers “Your starter for hell” the story of “University Challenge girls suffer vile internet abuse“.
Andrew Levy tells us:
It began with Gail Trimble, the Oxford student whose triumphant appearances on University Challenge led to online sniping about her being a ‘horse-toothed snob’. Now other female contestants on the programme have been subjected to offensive internet campaigns.
Curse that internet!
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Posted: 8th, September 2011 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
Daily Mail Sparks Midsomer Murders Race War In Worlingham, Suffolk: A Golliwog In The Window
JENNA Mason has been arrested and charged with racially aggravated harassment’ for placing a golliwog in the window of her home. Her next door neighbour in Worlingham, Suffolk, is one Rosemarie O’Donnell. Mrs O’Donnell is black. Mrs Mason is white.
Before this latest episode the pair had been in dispute. Mrs Mason and her husband Terry want to erect stables on their land. Mrs O’Donnell and her husband Stephen are against it.
Says Stephen:
“It’s not a children’s toy. You can see it has buttons and other items on it. It was clearly deliberately placed on the window sill facing out of the window. I do not believe it was casually tossed up there. It has caused immense upset. You live in the countryside and you think you have got away from all this nonsense. I would much rather they went after me with a baseball bat rather than insulting my children and wife. We came to East Anglia because we thought it was beautiful, scenic and very safe with an extremely low level of crime.”
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Posted: 7th, September 2011 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comments (12)
Daily Mail Says Middle-Aged Boozing Prevents Cancer – Unless You’re Middle Class (In Which Case Your F*cked)
THE Daily Mail’s words on drinking alcohol are more a conversation than actual reporting.
Last week the Mail’s Daniel Martin warned:
Couples who share a bottle of wine over dinner are putting their lives at risk, according to a report. The middle classes are unwittingly becoming ‘risky drinkers’ by regularly having wine with their evening meal, significantly increasing their susceptibility to conditions such as cancer and stroke… And because women’s alcohol tolerance is lower than men’s, they are at greater risk than their partner if they each drink half of a bottle of wine.
In short: if you drink you will get cancer.
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Posted: 7th, September 2011 | In: Reviews | Comments (2)
Scare Story: Daily Mail Says British Unhealthiest In The World – Dead Belgians Disagree
THE Daily Mail’s Scare Story of the day is that “Britain’s middle aged are unhealthiest in the world“.
Odd, then, that the CIA and the World Bank says Britishers will live to an average 80 years. On the CIA’s league table of longevity the UK comes in at number 28 of 221 countries.
That makes us longer living – and it might be argued healthier – than people in lots of other countries.
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Posted: 5th, September 2011 | In: Reviews | Comment (1)
On Day Ian Redmond Is Buried Scary Daily Mail Says Great White Sharks Have The UK Surrounded
CAN Ian Redmond’s death be used to spread fear in the UK? Yes.
As you know, Mr Redmond died while on his honeymoon in the Seychelles. He was buried in Lancashire today. (We have photos but does anyone need to see them?) The tabloids have feasted off the story.
The death of man thousands of miles from home is tragic but lacks immediacy. Then news arives that a man has been killed by sharks while swimming off what the Mail terms “paradise island” – that’s Fantome Island well off the coast of Queensland, Australia.
Wikipedia describes paradise thus:
A leprosarium was established on the island in 1927. Upon its closure in 1974,[2] it was purged by fire. The island is the site of 200 graves. The island was also a mission under the influence of Franciscan Missionaries of Mary.
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No Violence But Plenty Of Love, Fun And Sex At Notting Hill Carnival: A Daily Mail Nightmare In Photos
THE prospect of violence at the Notting Hill Carnival is exciting the Daily Mail to such a degree that it’s report on the first day’s festivities open thus:
The Notting Hill Carnival got off to a peaceful start today as Scotland Yard faces its biggest public order test since the London riots.
So says the wonderfully named Mail writer Chris Slack. His words appear below the headline:
Notting Hill carnival gets off to peaceful start despite ‘disruption chatter’ on social networks
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Posted: 28th, August 2011 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comments (3)
Daily Mail Says Saboteur Swapped Drugs In Nurofen Plus – Offers No Proof
THE Daily Mail reports that a ‘Saboteur‘ has placed “up to 500,000 powerful anti-psychotic drugs in packets of Nurofen Plus sold in the UK“.
The headline declares:
‘Saboteur’ puts up to 500,000 powerful anti-psychotic drugs in packets of Nurofen Plus sold in the UK
Only, that fact might not be a fact:
A drugs recall was under way tonight after it emerged that thousands of anti-psychotic tablets could have been deliberately placed in packets of Nurofen Plus.
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Richard Littlejohn’s 954 Words On Peter Mandelson’s House: How Journalism Works
HOW tabloid journalism works: Daily Mail hack Richard Littlejohn has a column to fill. What can he possibly write about? Well, Peter Mandelson has bought a house in London.
What was I saying recently about missing Peter Mandelson? His assorted scrapes, scambolis and scandals have provided a rich seam of material over the years. Many have been the mornings I’ve sat here scratching my head and staring at a blank wordface, only for Mandelson to ride to the rescue.
When Labour was turfed out of office, my jubilation was tinged with just a little sadness over the fact that I wouldn’t have Mandy to kick around any more. I needn’t have worried. As I tried desperately to avoid having to write about Libya, along came exciting news of Mandelson’s ambitious property portfolio.
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Daily Mail: Santa Claus Has Cancer
CAN flying to America give you cancer?
The Daily Mail wonders:
Can a change in solar activity increase the risk of cancer for frequent flyers to the U.S.?
Frequent flyers to China can breathe easy. Says the paper:
Dramatic changes in solar activity could raise the risk of cancerous damage to the cells of those on board planes flying over the Poles, claims professor of space environment physics Mike Lockwood.
Does a flight from London to New York go over the South or North Poles? And if it does, might the pilot be lost? Forget cancer – the polar bears and killer penguins want your blood. Unless you’re Santa Claus, in which case you need to see a doctor…fast! (And get Rudolph’s nose seen to – that boil looks nasty; it’s most likely cancerous.)
Says Professor Lockwood, who details his warning in the journal Geophysical Research Letters:
“I am not being alarmist.”
But…
Daily Mail Kills Off IstyOsty – Are There Other Ways To Read The Mail And Not Encourage It?
GOODBYE IstyOsty, you were the site that enabled people to read the Daily Mail without having to actually read the Daily Mail. The Mail was not too keen to someone using its work without even a link back to its own site.
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Posted: 17th, August 2011 | In: Technology | Comment
Manchester City Sign Wesley Sneijder – And So Do Manchester United
WILL Manchester United sign Wesley Sneijder, the diminutive Hollander from Inter Milan? The Daily Mail considers the facts:
July 14: “Manchester United hope to complete the £35million transfer of Wesley Sneijder after agreeing terms of around £190,000 a week with the Inter Milan midfielder”
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Posted: 11th, August 2011 | In: Sports | Comments (4)
Tottenham Riots: Daily Mail Says Immolating Twitter Worshippers Fuelled Violence
THE Daily Mail’s caption writers are having a great time with the Tottenham riot triggered by the police’s (unlawful?) killing of Mark Duggan. Having dubbed the aggro the “Twitter Riot“, the image of a burning double-decker bus is captioned: “a double-decker bus is immolated.”
Immolated? As in to kill or offer as a sacrifice, especially by fire. Synonyms for immolate are sacrifice and offer.
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Tottenham Riot: Twitter Readers Fear Daily Mail Fanned Violence (Photos)
THE Daily Mail says the rioting that followed Mark Duggan’s death in Tottenham (a man the paper calls a “gangster”) was sparked by Twitter…maybe. One caption to a photo of the car-b-cue calls it ‘Twitter Riot‘ (see left). The paper yells:
Fears that violence was fanned by Twitter as picture of burning police car was re-tweeted more than 100 times
Forget guns and a sense of estrangement from power – the real menace is Twitter.
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Posted: 7th, August 2011 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comment (1)
If You Crave Curry You’ve Probably Got Parkinson’s Disease (Says Daily Mail)
SCARE Story of the Day comes to use via the pages of the Daily Mail. Anna Hodgekiss hears the story of 59-year-old Elsie Campbell, “whose breast cancer was detected after she developed an unusual appetite for salad.”
If you like salad you might well have cancer?
The mother-of-two was eating four lettuces a day, prompting her husband Jim, a research scientist, to investigate. He worked out that lettuce contains a natural chemical called sulforaphane, which can attack cancer cells and which breast cancer sufferers often lack. He correctly guessed his wife’s addiction meant she was suffering from the disease.
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Posted: 3rd, August 2011 | In: Reviews | Comments (4)
Daily Mail Hack David Gerges’ Amazing Report On Liverpool V Valarenga
THE MATCH report of the season so far award goes to the Daily Mail’s David Gerges for his report on on Liverpool’s friendly with Valarenga.
“However, the visitors were left stunned after conceding two goals in four minutes. First, Strand beat the returning Reina from close range before Ogude capitalised on a loose ball to fire past Liverpool’s stopper.”
That ball was loose – and stationary. Fegor Ogude scored a penalty.
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Posted: 3rd, August 2011 | In: Sports | Comment (1)
Twitter And Facebook Toddlers Are Future Daily Mail Writers And BBC Experts
BYLINE writers, nodding heads, football show experts, Question Time panelists, MPs and anyone who insists on using a title listen up:
Facebook and Twitter have created a generation obsessed with themselves, who have short attention spans and a childlike desire for constant feedback on their lives, a top scientist believes. Repeated exposure to social networking sites leaves users with an ‘identity crisis’, wanting attention in the manner of a toddler saying: ‘Look at me, Mummy, I’ve done this.’
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Posted: 1st, August 2011 | In: Technology | Comment
Pippa Middleton’s ‘Like A Sister’ To Kate Middleton Reveals Daily Mail: Photos
PIPPA Middleton’s school photos are in the Daily Mail. How did these few pictures come to be published? Well:
The pictures were taken by Kevin Allford, who was housemaster to Pippa and Kate at the £13,000-a-year preparatory school in the Nineties.
Mr Allford, who now lives in Carmarthen, said: ‘Pippa was like her sister…”
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Posted: 28th, July 2011 | In: Royal Family | Comment
