Daily Archives: June 1, 2010

Floods and Waves

As a change of pace I thought I’d peruse some other tabloid websites for a while to see what they were offering their readers. I haven’t been on the Sun website for quite some time, and suddenly remembered why I rarely visit the site for stories: because the site is just so terrible. I’ll give [...]

Any Excuse…

The Daily Mail doesn’t need an invitation to show cleavage or to print a made-up story about how something has been BANNED due to the ‘elf ‘n’ safety’ brigade, so imagine the delight it must have to be able to do both with one article: ‘Cheese-chasers risk life, limb (and dignity) in unofficial event after [...]

Pretend News

The slim line between the adverts you see in the newspaper and the ‘news’ that is printed next to them has virtually disappeared thanks to the increased demand being placed on fewer journalists to keep the newspaper full. Churnalism is now standard practice for the majority of newspaper content, and the majority of the ‘stories’ [...]

Richard Littlejohn: Foreign Headbanger

Richard Littlejohn has always been obsessed with homosexuality – in 2008 he managed to refer to it in 40 of his 97 columns – but even for him today’s column is really all about gay people. Just look as his opening paragraph: To be honest, I’ve always considered all Liberal MPs to be homosexuals unless [...]

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