Monthly Archives: July 2011

Reason for hope

July 30, 2011 – 10:42 am

So whilst Uponnothing is away, I’m taking advantage of my posting privileges. On Wednesday the Mail front page headline was this: The shirking classes: Just 1 in 14 incapacity claimants is unfit to work This is classic Mail in so many ways, see how many you can count. These are the ones, I found: 1. [...]

By Dralienfromzog | Posted in Mail Reader Watch, Newspaper Lies | Comments (5)

Holiday

July 21, 2011 – 10:48 pm

I’m on holiday from 3.40am tomorrow so it is unlikely anything will be posted for the next two weeks and a bit. Which is a shame in some ways because it is an interesting time to be a media blogger. As usual, use the links on the right-hand side to find other media bloggers, follow [...]

By Uponnothing | Posted in Announcement | Comments (2)

Dacre’s Little Helper

July 21, 2011 – 9:27 pm

Stephen Glover has been a busy boy lately. It seems almost every day he manages to write something about the phone hacking scandal. Brilliantly, he has such amazing insight and journalistic integrity that he manages to see past those accused by mere mortals of being responsible for the hacking and blagging of information – you [...]

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A cliche, but: is this a new low for the Daily Mail?

July 21, 2011 – 2:56 pm

‘Bedbound pensioner dies after being gnawed by rats as scrapping of weekly bin collection leads to rodent infestation [istyosty.com link]‘ screams the headline of a Daily Mail article attributed to The Daily Mail Reporter (no-one would want to claim credit for this article). The article claims that: A bedbound pensioner who died after being gnawed [...]

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Stewart Lee responds to Jan Moir article

July 19, 2011 – 10:10 pm

Worth a read: Moir’s column about ‘foul-mouthed left-wing’ comics who hate Michael McIntyre is only to able to suggest two examples of this ‘cabal’, me and, bizarrely, Frankie Boyle, the paper’s default bête noir. Here we go, point by point, chop chop chop, Timber. Firstly, I am not ‘foul mouthed’. I swear once in the [...]

By Uponnothing | Posted in Jan Moir | Tagged , , , , | Comments (5)
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