Posts Tagged ‘daily mail’
Taxi For Piers Morgan: Washing Jonathan Ross’s Dirty Letters In Private
UPDATED: Piers Morgan’s Diaries on BBC Director General’s pal Jonathan Ross and those lust letters:
We’ve been offered the TV star Jonathan Ross’s laptop computer for £20,000. When we asked the guy trying to flog it why on earth he thought it was worth so much, he leered and said, “Because there’s so much filfth on it.”
Sch-wing!
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Posted: 30th, October 2008 | In: Reviews | Comments (12)
Daily Mail Thinks EastEnders Is Fly On Wall Documentary
MORE signs that the Mail is unable to differentiate between fact and fiction in its story:
“NICE must throw open the files on Alzheimer ruling”
The story is of how the Alzheimer’s Society has won a battle to get the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence to give anyone a look at how it calculates whether to allow drugs for use in patients showing early signs of the disease.
And the “Victim” seen in the picture by the story?
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Posted: 30th, October 2008 | In: Reviews | Comments (9)
The Germanes: Brand And Rossy In Faulty Towers
THE Daily Mail is up in arms at Russell Brand and Jonathan Ross, so don’t mention the war.
Trouble is, Russell has let things go to his head and can’t stop himself. While Rossy runs about clearing up Brand’s mess, Brand insults everyone and oh, no…
“I would like to remind the Daily Mail [sic] that while it is a bit bad to leave a swearword on Andrew Sachs’ answerphone, what’s worse – leaving a swearword on Andrew Sachs’ answerphone or tacitly supporting Adolf Hitler when he took charge of the Third Reich?”
“Don’t mention the war!” Mr Faulty, is a panza, is not a rat…
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Posted: 28th, October 2008 | In: Celebrities | Comment
The Guardian and Mail Compete To Be The Most Bigoted
WRITES Peter Wilby in the Guardian:
The Daily Mail is in many (no, most) respects a dreadful paper, relentlessly stoking the worst human emotions: prejudice, bigotry and hate.
No so much stoking the worst as reinforcing fears and hatreds reinforcing them among its right-minded readership.
But what of the Guardian? The paper’s former writer Julie Burchill signed off her final column by citing the Guardian’s’s Jew hating, the “dirty little secret masquerading as a moral stance”:
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Posted: 27th, October 2008 | In: Reviews | Comments (5)
Scare Stories: iPod, Gastric Bandits And Killer Surgeons
MEDIA SCARE STORIES: THE Daily Mail searches news wires, medical reports and research notes for scare stories, and finally its quest bears dividends:
TUESDAY:
“SWEETENER ‘makes you fat’”
“The Ipod generation – That’s insecure pressurised, over-taxed and debt-ridden”
“THE GASTRIC BANDITS – Increasing numbers of women are going abroad for radical weight-loss surgery they can’t have here because they’re not fat enough. As this woman found, the results can be disastrous”
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Posted: 21st, October 2008 | In: Reviews | Comments (2)
Harry Mount On All The Queen’s Horses
TO the Daily Mail, where the royal horse correspondent is called Harry Mount:
Other staff:
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Plastic Greens: How the Daily Mail Loves A Plastic Bag
THE Daily Mail’s Ban the Bags campaign is in line for an award, the Press Gazette Environmental Press Awards campaign of the year.
It was terrific idea. And had it only been the Mail’s the paper would deserve the gong.
As Alex Lockwood writes:
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Posted: 20th, October 2008 | In: Reviews | Comment (1)
Good News: Guy Ritchie And Madonna Feel The Strain
CELEBRATING the divorce of Madonna and Guy Ritchie in the Daily Mail:
SOME GOOD NEWS AT LAST!
In other papers:
One more immigrant leaves: Daily Express
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Posted: 16th, October 2008 | In: Celebrities, Tabloids | Comments (3)
The World According To Daily Mail Readers
A DAILY Mail reader explains the cutent economic downturn:
Britain has been wecked by the Marxist persons within government and local Councils INCLUDING the NHS. Marxist want to rule every moment of the citizenrys life,craddle to grave. That way the Marxist will always be in power and have a “brainwashed” society. This to my mind is proven by the “unhealthy” interest in Soccer, loosely akin to the ancient antics of ROME.
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Posted: 12th, October 2008 | In: Reviews, Tabloids | Comments (5)
Arguido And Halo: Learning To Speak Madeleine McCann
MADDIE WATCH – Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann, Kate McCann and Gerry McCann
DAILY MAIL: “Nomophobic, stagflation, funt… and even cripes: Some of the 100 or so ‘Words of the Year’”
This is the year of the credit crunch, the nonebrity and glamping. 2008 has given the English language more than 100 new words and phrases which capture modern life, according to experts.
Or Nodding Heads, as Anorak calls them. Go on:
The list compiled by dictionary expert Susie Dent … the nonebrity form TV’s Countdown
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Posted: 2nd, October 2008 | In: Madeleine McCann, Tabloids | Comments (206)
Allison Pearson: The Sword, The Money Or The Poison Pen
ALLISON Pearson, of the Daily Mail, is still talking about those City “spivs” and how they are, well, just so worthless:
Throughout the boom years, the bankers justified their stellar incomes by saying they were working heroic hours to help bring greater prosperity to us all. Oh, really? Try telling that to a soldier who has spent 180 days dodging mortars in Helmand and dreamt of nothing more than enjoying a bucket of Kentucky Fried Chicken in front of the TV with the family he adores.
Most bankers never have to justify their incomes, wages being a matter of market rates. And do not soldiers dream of owning islands, flying first class and watching their football team play on a massive plasma screen? Do bankers eat KFC?
Still:
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Posted: 1st, October 2008 | In: Money, Tabloids | Comments (3)
Understanding The Daily Mail Project
BEN Goldacre sees hoq the Mail, like all good middle-class sods, has it every way it can get it:
I am Health Book Of The Week in the Daily Mail (and after all the mean things I’ve said about them). To me this says a great deal about the strangeness of the Daily Mail project – barrages of nonsense, interspersed with occasional moments of incongruous clarity. This phenomenon, for me, reached its pinnacle in their front page article on how miracle pixie dust made a man’s finger grow back. You will remember that this story was nonsense. After all the front page excitement, hidden away at the very end of their article, was a quote from someone who actually knew about this stuff, who said, quite simply, that the papers entire front page story was all cock. Brilliant, strange, and oddly endearing.
The Mail – if they will read it, they will write it…
Posted: 30th, September 2008 | In: Reviews | Comment (1)
Grab A Torch For Banned Books Week
IT’S Banned Books Week.In America:
Banned Books Week is the only national celebration of the freedom to read. It was launched in 1982 in response to a sudden surge in the number of challenges to books in schools, bookstores and libraries. More than a thousand books have been challenged since 1982.
Can a student just stand up and challenge the book in class?
According to the American Library Association, more than 400 books were challenged in 2007. The 10 most challenged titles were:
It’s the must-buy guide:
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Posted: 28th, September 2008 | In: Reviews | Comments (3)
Paul Routledge Can Rejoice As Credit Crunch Banker Tops Himself
“CREDIT CRUNCH BANKER KILLS HIMSELF,” screams the Daily Mail’s front-page headline.
Kirk Stephenson, who was married with an eight-year-old son, died in the path of a 100mph express train at Taplow railway station, Berkshire. Mr Stephenson is believed to have taken his own life after succumbing to mounting personal pressures as the world’s financial markets went into meltdown.
Believed by whom, is not said. But at least one man is happy: Paul Routledge can rejoice:
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Posted: 28th, September 2008 | In: Money, Tabloids | Comments (9)
Daily Mail, Daily Wail: Drinking Cat Piss
THE Daily Mail searches horro stories, medical reports and research notes for news, and finally its quest bears dividends:
Wine taste funny? It may contain cat litter… Malcolm Gluck reveals the unpalatable truth about the wine industry
Although licking the litter tray is all the rage in France…
Posted: 27th, September 2008 | In: Tabloids | Comments (18)
Madeleine McCann: In Majorca Like What She Not Oughta
MADDIE WATCH – Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann, Kate McCann and Gerry McCann
DAILY MAIL: “Police search for Madeleine McCann in Majorca after British couple report ‘sighting’ on beach”
Not in Malta? Not in Morocco. Sticking with the “Ms”, we journey to Majorca…
Police in Spain were tonight searching the holiday island of Majorca for Madeleine McCann after a British couple claimed to have seen her on a beach.
But they said nothing?
Detectives were scouring hotels and holiday apartments for two dark-haired women seen with a young blonde girl matching Madeleine’s description.
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Posted: 26th, September 2008 | In: Madeleine McCann, Tabloids | Comments (245)
Daily Mail On Cheap And Lazy Rehashes
SAYS RICHARD Littlejohn in The Daily Mail:
And finally, ITV says it will have to drop local news bulletins. It can’t afford its ‘public service’ commitments. Frankly, regional news on both BBC and ITV is a disgrace – consisting of on-the-cheap, lazy rehashes of stories nicked out of the newspapers…
Whereas the Daily Mail creates cheap and lazy rehashes of stories from foreign newspapers and the telly. In today’s organ:
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Lily Allen Wears A Necklace
LILY Allen News Of The Day: Lily’s Uzi Scuzi
Singer Lily Allen scored more than a fashion own goal, when she was seen wearing a gold necklace with an Uzi machine gun pendant hanging from it – Daily Mail
More Lily Allen news tomorrow…
Posted: 26th, September 2008 | In: Celebrities, Tabloids | Comments (17)
The Rosie Fingered Dawn Of Soapy Porn
“And over on ITV, Corrie turns more tawdry than ever,” says the Daily Mail, a fact illustrated by picture of Corrie’s 18-year-old slapper Rosie Webster in her bustier.
It is not the first time Coronation Street has gone for a shock effect using the Rosie Webster character. She was just 17 when scriptwriters cast her last year as a Lolita-style seductress having a sordid affair with her tutor.
How old was he, then? Just for, er, interest’s sake?
Mail readers clack their marmalade-coated tongues and fire off a foamy email:
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Posted: 26th, September 2008 | In: Tabloids, TV & Radio | Comments (5)
Collect Daily Mail Heath Tips In A Free Binder
COLLECT Daily Mail heath advice in this handy Anorak binder:
Are people around the nation carefully clipping these stories out, and pasting them in indexed box files, ready for the day when they develop the condition in question, or encounter the opportunity to modify an unusual health risk exposure? And how will they know if the data they are gathering is complete, or just an arbitrary patchwork of newsworthy and self-serving information, multiply filtered through a range of imperfect agents with diverse interests and allegiances? In fact, how does anybody know that?
They are now…
Take care when using the binder as an allergy to leatherette can kill (see Daily Mail passim)…
Posted: 24th, September 2008 | In: Reviews | Comment (1)
Who’s Saari Now: The 12th Rule Of Tabloid Journalism
THE 12th Rule of Tabloid Journalism states:
“Each and any incident that can be linked to a website on the internet must be. If victim or perpetrator of crime or deed has a social networking account it should be mentioned at all times, preferably in the headline. The inference should be that the web was the trigger to the action.”
Example:
Matti Saari, 22, shoots and kills 10 people at a school in Kauhajoki, western Finland. He had posted online videos of himself at a gun range. He killed himself.
Headlines:
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Posted: 24th, September 2008 | In: Tabloids | Comment (1)
Lap Dancing For Puritans
SAYS the Mail: “Pole dancing club licensed to open at site where Mayflower set sail… what would the Puritans have said?”
Well, considering they were leaving for the US, perhaps “Goodbye”, or “phwoarr!”..?
Posted: 19th, September 2008 | In: Tabloids | Comments (13)
Cosmetic Surgery: Making Over The Daily Mail
“COSMETIC cowboys could cost you your life, women warned,” announces the Mail.
Men called Billy-Bob dressed in chaps and surgical masks are using “irresponsible adverts to seduce them [women] into having operations”.
Many procedures advertised – such as lunchtime facelifts and discount five-in-one operations – are at best ineffective and at worst dangerous, the experts say.
Are you getting your five in a day?
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Posted: 19th, September 2008 | In: Tabloids | Comments (5)
Madeleine McCann: More Kate Fury, Juliet Stevenson Feels And Ben Affleck Returns
MADDIE WATCH – Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann, Kate McCann and Gerry McCann
DAILY MIRROR: “Kate’s fury at leaked diary story”
Such is Kate McCann’s weekly tabloid fury, it’s a wonder she has any time to do anything other then be furious.
Kate McCann was last night said to be devastated by the unauthorised publication of her diary. You mean those extracts that appeared in the News of the World, sister paper to the Sun, the Mirror’s main rival..?
Lawyers for the McCanns are thought to be demanding an apology and payout for the Find Madeleine fund. The McCanns did not comment.
A payout? Well, if her words sell newspapers, it seems fair.. Unless they are in the public interest?
DAILY MAIL: “Truly, madly, deeply disturbing: A missing child leads Juliet Stevenson to some grisly secrets in a dark new drama”
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Posted: 19th, September 2008 | In: Madeleine McCann, Tabloids | Comments (573)
Unravelling Allison Pearson’s Message For Lehman Brothers Sorority
ALLISON Pearson, of the Daily Mail, is discussing the impact of the Lehman Bothers “earthquake” and what investments bankers did to us when they never had it so good:
For years, investment bankers could outbid any family on a London house because they were always cash buyers. Flash Harrys and Jaspers with bonuses as big as their egos were happy to pay stupid money. So the property market duly went insane…
Who can afford those cray-zee prices?
Film studio Miramax has demanded that Allison Pearson return the $700,000 it paid her for rights to her novel I Think I Love You after the Daily Mail columnist failed to deliver the book. The novel, Pearson’s second following her successful debut I Don’t Know How She Does It, is about one girl’s infatuation with David Cassidy.
Pearson goes on:
The quality of British life became dangerously frayed. Kids unravelled.
Unravelling children. For shame! You’ve seen them, with their frayed fingers, unstitched heads and loose bits of digestive tract trailing behind them on a sodden grey pavement.
Pearson’s seen them. And she’s seen the kiddie unravellers at Lehman Brothers, once addressing the banks sorority:
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Posted: 17th, September 2008 | In: Money, Tabloids | Comments (8)
