Mail Online
‘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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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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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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