Monthly Archives: October 2011

One minute, you’re relaxing on holiday…

October 30, 2011 – 1:07 pm

Tweet The next, someone contacts you to tell you that you’re in the Daily Mail and you soon realise that whilst you were out of the country someone had grabbed your life, twisted out of all recognition and published it to the world. Welcome to the story of Hayley Quinn who this happened to in [...]

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What’s your poison?

October 26, 2011 – 10:54 pm

Tweet The wonderful people behind the NHS Behind the headlines section have released their first in-depth report on how media coverage impacts public perception of a particular medical issue – in this case, alcohol. The report – What’s Your Poison: A sober analysis of alcohol and health in the media – examines the media’s relationship [...]

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‘Mac on Anti-capitalist protesters’

October 26, 2011 – 7:39 pm

Tweet Seems reasonable for the Daily Mail to hope that religious leaders attack the protesters with flamethrowers…

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Steve Doughty: Dear black footballers…

October 25, 2011 – 9:10 pm

Tweet Toughen up you big girls! Why are you whingeing about a bit of (alleged) racial abuse on the pitch? You do realise black players 20 years ago had it much worse 20 don’t you? As for this whole ‘kick racism out of football’ malarky it’s getting dead boring. I paraphrase, but here are a [...]

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Avoid deportation by joining a Gym – claims Daily Mail

October 24, 2011 – 9:51 pm

Tweet According to the Daily Mail website today: ‘Failed asylum seeker who has dodged deportation for a decade told he can stay… because he goes to the GYM’. What the judge actually said was: ‘He had integrated well within the Glasgow community, had a large network of friends, most of whom were Scottish, and socialised [...]

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