Celebrity nonsense
‘Celebrity-dominated’
There’s something on the Daily Mail website that you have to see. To find it, you must visit dailymail.co.uk and scroll down… Past the news that Britney Spears has become engaged with someone. Past the news that someone called Kylie Jenner,… Read more
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Is it news or rubbernecking that drives Mail Online?
Once again, the Mail Online homepage has been rearranged to promote an article about a horrific event which is, as ever, accompanied by a plethora of images: The article, which is attributed to the “Daily Mail Reporter”, includes no fewer… Read more
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Daily Star apologises to Jordan
According to the ever-excellent Regret the Error, the Daily Star issued the following apology yesterday: On Monday 26th September 2011 we published an article which claimed that Katie Price was involving her son, Junior, in violent pursuits and… Read more
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What a sordid circus
Do you remember when the Mail were criticising the BBC for showing a man’s death “for ratings”? The show in question was the BBC1 documentary, Inside the Human Body, the second episode of which showed a man dying from cancer. The man had… Read more
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More absurd coverage of Amanda Knox from the Mail
Taking pride of place in Mail Online’s “So what?” box right now, alongside “news” about a Coronation Street spin-off show and X Factor, is this groundbreaking revelation: The flippant tone continues well into Nick Pisa’s underlying article,… Read more
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The nasty coverage of Margaret Moran’s court appearance
You can be forgiven for thinking that the Mail’s coverage of ex-Labour MP Margaret Moran and her court appearance over alleged expenses fraud is more than a little on the nasty side: The article, bravely attributed to the anonymous “Daily… Read more
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Churnalism is… the time it takes for men to get ready in the morning
In a desperate bid to fill another empty space in their newspaper, the hacks at Richard Desmond’s laughably downmarket Daily Mail rip-off, the Daily Express, have cobbled together the following “news”: The article, which is attributed to the… Read more
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When is an exclusive not an exclusive?
…When the same story is covered simultaneously by two different newspapers. (Hat-tip to @BethEleri and… Read more
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