Celebrity nonsense
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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How the Sun is reporting the phone hacking scandal
Given that the News of the World is their sister paper, it’s no surprise at all to discover that the Sun is reporting the escalating allegations of phone hacking in the following way: It’s also not surprising at all that the Sun is the only… Read more
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News of the World hacked Milly Dowler’s voicemail
Just in case you thought the journalists at the News of the World couldn’t possibly have stooped any lower: The News of the World illegally targeted the missing schoolgirl Milly Dowler and her family in March 2002, interfering with police… Read more
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Littlejohn letches over 7-year-old girl
What is it with the Mail and people’s daughters? Last week, the anonymous “Daily Mail Reporter” was letching over Tom Cruise’s 5-year-old daughter, Suri. It described her swimsuit-less trip to the beach with her mother in obsessive detail, being… Read more
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‘Kate Moss turned away by bouncers at Glastonbury… probably’
Front and centre in Mail Online’s “So what?” box right now: The article, written by Richard Littlejohn’s equally talented daughter Georgina, says: She might be one of the most famous faces in the world but even Kate Moss can sometimes go… Read more
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‘Man fails to look like 4-year-old heavily-airbrushed photograph of himself’
From Mail Online’s vapid “TV&Showbiz” section: The anonymous “Daily Mail Reporter” writes: As Ron Weasley in Harry Potter, Rupert Grint is the clean-cut, slightly naive teenager who haplessly tried to make his way in the magical… Read more
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Daily Mail Reporter letches over five-year-old girl
If you saw a fully-grown adult taking numerous photographs of someone else’s five-year-old daughter as she played on the beach, what would you do? Would you give them a disgusted glare? Would you confront them? Would you call the police and alert… Read more
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