Category Archives: not news

The Mail Online’s idea of a ‘New Craze’

December 28, 2012 – 11:01 pm

Tweet There are lots of things that I have never heard of. The Mail Online’s latest warning is about one of them: the ‘salt and ice challenge’. The Mail Online has lifted a report from the Huffington Post (which they credit) about how some teenagers in America (one doctor in Detroit – population over 700,000 [...]

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Kendall Jenner / Kardashian: Mailbait extraordinaire

October 31, 2010 – 11:10 am

Tweet Following on from my post on how the Mail hypocritically cashes in on publishing vast quantities of semi-nude photos of celebrities, all the while wagging their fingers and shaking their heads in disgust it is even more disturbing when the girl featured is only 14 years old. One of their favourite female celebrities is [...]

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‘Outrage’

July 27, 2010 – 12:59 pm

Tweet A favourite tabloid word, and rarely used in its proper context – for example, when over 24,000 people complained to the PCC about Jan Moir’s Gately article the word was not used by the Mail or any of the tabloid press. However, if the BBC has 7 complaints out of an audience of over [...]

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Beware the ‘Fluffy’ Story

June 15, 2010 – 2:38 pm

Tweet When you read a newspaper it is important to remember not just to be cynical about the scaremongering, or disgusted at the lies on immigration, but also to question the fluffy stories. Take, for example, the lovely story of Cinders the pig, which – according to the Daily Mail – is ‘The world’s only [...]

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