Posts Tagged ‘daily mirror’
Daily Mirror publishes 4-year-old ‘Tyson Homosexual’ story as its own breaking news
THE greatest story ever? Maybe. When the American Family Association opted to replace the word “gay” with “homosexual”, they duly renamed 100 metres Olympian Tyson Gay ‘Tyson Homosexual’ on their site OneNewsNow. The story reached the world in 2008, when Mary Ann Akers reported on it for The Sleuth. She spotted it at scienceblogs.com, goodasyou.org and PageOneQ.
A mere four years later, the Daily Mirror screams:
It’s “Tyson Homosexual” in fourth place… Christian website’s automated filter changes name of US sprinter
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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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Error of the week: The Daily Mirror says you won the lottery
CRAIG Silverman points us to the Daily Mirror’s correction of the year:
On December 6 under the headline Xmas dinner Is On £1m Lotto Win Coach, we wrongly reported that Mr Paul Trainor (right) had won a £1million Lottery prize. In fact the prize was won by another person.
Mr Trainor does not work at the Belfast Health and Social Care Trust, nor did he buy a turkey-dinner for work colleagues or say the he was going to buy a new car. We are happy to correct the position and apologise to Mr Trainor for any embarrassment or confusion caused as a result.
Apart from that, it was bang on.
Bruce Willis Has 31 Children, Says Daily Mirror
BRUCE Willis’s current lover, Emma Heming, is expecting his 32nd child, says the Daily Mirror. Bruce is 56 – although the Mirror says he looks somewhat older…
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Posted: 28th, October 2011 | In: Celebrities | Comment
Daily Mirror Says Isle Of Wight Is Peado Island – And A Great Place To Holiday
THE Daily Mirror says that Isle of Wight has been dubbed “Paedo Island”. You see, the new Camp Hill Prison is not the island’s first. It already has Albany and Parkhurst, “which hold mostly rapists and paedophiles“. And Camp Hill “will also be set aside for sex offenders“.
An unnamed source tells us:
“Many of these prisoners will eventually be released on to the island and the public will have no idea who they are or the terrible crimes they have done.”
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Posted: 22nd, August 2011 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comments (6)
Piers Morgan Admits Knowing About Phone Hacking While At Daily Mirror: Audio
PIERS Morgan says he knew about phone hacking when he was editor of the Daily Mirror. Who knew? Did Sun editor Dominic Mohan know? No evidence exist that he did. Did James Hipwell know. He claims he does.
Back in 2009, Morgan appeared on the BBC’s Desert Island Disks radio show. “I make no pretence about the stuff we used to do.”
Kirsty Young: And what about this nice middle class boy who would have to be dealing with, I mean, essentially people who rake through bins for a living, people who tap people’s phones, people who take secret photographs and do all that very nasty down in the gutter stuff?
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Posted: 27th, July 2011 | In: Reviews | Comment (1)
Cameron’s Conservatives Crowdsource The Bloggers’ Budget As Daily Mirror Loses Influence
TODAY the Daily Mirror presents the most opportunistic, sad, desperate and downright daft headline in the runs up to Labour’s defeat in the General Election, and in the waft of Geoff Hoon, Stephen Byers and Patricia Hewitt’s cash-for-influence scandal:
“SEE YA! (WOULDN’T WANNA BE YA!”
That’s the headline. The news:
“Cheerful David Cameron waves bye-bye yesterday to his chances of being our next Prime Minister.”
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Posted: 24th, March 2010 | In: Reviews | Comments (3)
Daily Mirror Accuses Tory Treasurer Michael Spencer of ‘Cashing In’ On 9/11, Offers Apology
WAS it brave of foolish of the Mirror to take on Tory Treasurer Michael Spencer in an article entitled, “CASHING IN ON 9/11”?
Tory treasure Michael Spencer shamelessly poached key figures from a rival finance firm while it was still grieving the loss of 658 staff in the Twin Towers terror attack.
Grim stuff. The article is equipped with a shot of a beaming Spencer stood by David Cameron, another shot of Spencer holding a bottle of champers and a picture of the Twin Towers ablaze. Subtle it ain’t.
The other firm, readers learn, was Cantor Fitzgerald, a firm that lost its New York staff on that terrible day.
But as they came to terms with the death of their friends in the US, scheming billionaire Spencer was plotting to lure staff to his broking firm ICAP – despite a pledge to Cantor boss Lee Amaitis he would stay away. He even cynically referred to the snatch as a ‘heist’.
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Posted: 15th, February 2010 | In: Politicians | Comment
Daily Mirror Advertises Father’s Day Gifts For Wife Beaters
FATHER’S DAY. It comes but once year.
In the Daily Mirror, Father’s Day comes after a story about wife beating.
But not all dad’s are like that.
Yet…
Posted: 23rd, February 2009 | In: Reviews | Comments (2)
Knife Crime And Media Scare Stories: 1981 Revisited
“FOR David,” says the Sun’s editorial on David Idowu who was knifed to death earlier this year.
It’s a tragic water of life. But that’s enough about David, because the Sun is soon using his death to lead into a piece on the wider malaise of “Broken Britain”.
Crime figures reveal a small dip in knife crime “largely due to increased stop-and search action”. Brrr! It’s cold out there. Anyone want to fight now or wait until the summer when we get to stay out late?
The solution:
“…increasing stop and search operation.”
Cast your minds back to 1981 when the ‘Sus’ law meant anybody could be stopped and searched if officers merely suspected they might be planning to carry out a crime. In early April that year, Operation Swamp Sussed more than 1,000 people in six days.
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Posted: 12th, December 2008 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comment (1)
Three Baby Ps A Week, Every Week
“THREE BABY Ps A WEEK,” announces the Daily Mirror on its front page.
No-one can accuse the Mirror of not offering value for money. It’s some promise but can the paper really spend half the week leading with the deaths of children?
There is the danger of readers getting a hardened heart from a diet only of grimness. Here’s what you the readers are saying about it:
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Posted: 11th, December 2008 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comment (1)
Daily Mirror Backs Conservative’s Slug Eating Campaign
BRIAN Reade, writing in the Mirror, says he “loves it when a Nice-But-Dim Tory reveals himself to be the kind of animal we always knew he was. One with the heart of a wolf and the brain of a slug.
“Take health spokesman Andrew Lansley who believes recession can be good for people because they will eat less.”
Reads muses: “If only the Tories had been around in 1845 when the Irish potato famine started…”
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Posted: 27th, November 2008 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comments (2)
Knife Crime: Snith On A Switch And Gnarls Barkley
HEY, kids! Wanna get revenge on a classmate? Here’s how. It’s easy:
Youngsters will be urged to email tip-offs on classmates carrying knives to the police in an initiative starting today.
The new warning service comes via the Crimestoppers’ youth website www.shadowcs.co.uk and will allow them to keep their identity secret.
What you do is text or call the police and tell them who is carrying a knife. Be precise. Give an address.
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Barack Obama Watch: Media Pride In Not Noticing Obama’s Non-Whiteness
NOW we are moved on from racial politics, each of us – Muslim fundamentalist, white supremacist, Black Shiite, Panther, Tutsi, Boar and so on – living in a post-racial society, the media can say whatever it likes about Barack Obama and we will know the reporters and nodding heads are not exploiting his blackness, nor his non-blackness but just sticking to the essence of the man, whatever that may be.
The Sun brings news of “Black Dr Who”, and we know that it is not referring to Colin Salmon’s skin tones but his mood, which is dark and foreboding, like Othello and his talking metal dog made accessible for a teenaged audience.
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Posted: 7th, November 2008 | In: Politicians | Comments (3)
Barack Obama Watch: Hysterically Historic Non-Black Winner
BARACK Obama Watch: Obama is elected and the press is divided about the politician: is he black, historic, black and historic, not black and historic, historic in a non-black black way?
BLACK CHECK:
“It’s not about black or white. It’s about grey. What grey matter has the new President of the United States” – Kelvin MacKenzie, The Sun
“Former US Secretary of State Colin Powell shed a tear as Obama wept to victory as the first black president” – The Sun
“Barack didn’t put himself forward as an Afro-American president, but as a president” – Colin Powell, who does not edit The Sun.
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Posted: 6th, November 2008 | In: Politicians | Comments (2)
Media Scare Stories: Impregnated By Telly, Fat Cancer And Face -Eating Gardens
MEDIA SCARE Stories: Eyes down…
Daily Express: – “TV sex peril for young”
“Watching too much sex on TV can double a teenager’s chance of becoming a parent”
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Posted: 4th, November 2008 | In: Reviews | Comment (1)
British Press Join The Barack Obama Death Cult
“BARACK Obama’s family fear his life could be at risk if he moves closer to the white House,.”
So says the Daily Mirror in “He is hate target.”
The paper omits to mention a political leader who isn’t, preferring to dwell on the Barack Obama Death Cult, of which it is now a member.
Video of certain death to us all after the break (NSFW)…
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Posted: 31st, October 2008 | In: Politicians | Comment
Vote Obama. Vote Black. Vote White. Vote Brown.
KEVIN Maguire is claiming in the Mirror that – get this – a vote for Barack Obama is really a vote for Gordon Brown.
The Tory spin machine will claim white is black if, fingers crossed, Obama is elected US President next Tuesday.
What’s black and white and red all over? Gordon’s Brown economy…
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Posted: 29th, October 2008 | In: Politicians | Comment
Fern Britton’s Weight Speaks Out
IN FERN “ME and My weight”, the Mirror hears Fern Britton’s weight speak out for the first time since it was placed on a restraining order…
“I was just a pair of footballer’s shoulders and hips when Fern Britton adopted me and form then on my life was a smorgasbord of TV dinners.
“Together me and Fern grew as stars, the best double act in mid-morning telly since Anne Diamond pulled on a pair of cankles and…”
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Posted: 28th, October 2008 | In: Celebrities | Comment
Katatonic: Kerry Katona’s Amazing New Body
WITH curves not seen since the glory days of Warrington’s Spud U Like grand opening, Kerry Katona appears on the Mirror’s front page to show readers her “amazing body”.
To page 9, where a naked Kerry is showing off her cosmetic surgery bruises. Anorak is particularly appalled by the metal stables that join the chest to the navel.
Amazing.
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Posted: 21st, October 2008 | In: Celebrities | Comments (5)
When Tabloids Run The Banks
THE Mirror’s Stewart MacLean is sat in the foyer of RBS, Kensington.
He’s a shareholder now: “I reckon I definitely look the part as I confidently stride in with my laptop, a fold-up desk and briefcase.”
MacLean’s colleague Paul Routledge would rather see him stood on the counter with a tie wrapped to his throat and tethered to the ceiling fan, but this is MacLean’s first day at work. Patience.
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Posted: 15th, October 2008 | In: Reviews, Tabloids | Comments (5)
Christmas Day Lights: Climate Kops Wonder At Lights
IT’S just 71 days to go to Christmas and the tabloids finally have their first Christmas lights story.
Anorak’s man at the Mirror says:
“Things were getting proper dicey. We had an Our Maddie story on standby, a feature on what Our Diana would have done to help should she ever deign to emerge from her department in Harvey Nichols, and there was the story of how Our Gordon Brown is to duet with Howard on the Halifax ads, so we were covered for a few weeks.
“But still, squeaky bum time.”
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Posted: 15th, October 2008 | In: Reviews, Tabloids | Comment
Credit Crunch Laughs With Sue Carroll And Kevin Maguire
CREDIT Crunch. He-he. Stop, you’re killing us.
“KNOW what I do find really depressing about the credit crunch? All those newspaper articles about looking on the bright side and finding reasons to be cheerful.
– Sue Carrol, Daily Mirror
Elsewhere in today’s Daily Mirror:
“BROWN SAVES THE WORLD”
“Joy as shares soar”
“…in private [Alistair] Darling is one of Westminster’s finest wits” – Kevin Maguire
Seriously…
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Posted: 14th, October 2008 | In: Reviews | Comments (6)
Football Manager Owes Billions In Tax
MONEY madness in the Daily Mirror:
“THREE TV stars and a football club manager are at the centre of £1billion tax-dodging investigation”
They just aren’t paid enough
Shoes For Hats: Daily Mirror Hack’s Zany Wikiepdia Cheat
THE Mirror’s David Anderson writes from Nicosia of Manchester City’s UEFA Cup match with Omonia Nicosia.
Despite City’s raised profile, they must make do with the UEFA Cup this season and Hughes will not tolerate any slip-ups against the Cypriot side, whose fans are known as the ‘Zany Ones’ and wear hats made from shoes.
Well, that’s what is says on the Wikipedia page for Omonia Nicosia, as updated by “godspants”, a web wag, and slavishly borrowed by Anderson as he does his, er, research…
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Posted: 2nd, October 2008 | In: Back pages, Tabloids | Comments (3)
