Tag Archives: Daily Express

The Media Agenda

December 10, 2010 – 9:25 am

I listened to the segment on Radio 4 this morning that featured London Mayor Boris Johnson and Commissioner Sir Paul Stephenson discussing the attack on Charles and Camilla. Part of the discussion focused on why, when it is standard practice in the protection of ‘principles’ to have many alternative routes planned before the vehicle sets [...]

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‘Revenge’

August 27, 2010 – 1:10 pm

From Football 365′s MediaWatch section today (a must read for fans of this blog): Those newspapers who do not have Harry Redknapp on their payroll had to scratch around for an angle on Tottenham’s Champions League draw. And scratch around they did… Opening paragraph in the Daily Star: ‘Peter Crouch’s wish was granted last night [...]

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An ethnic roundup

July 13, 2010 – 9:45 pm

As promised here are the blogs that covered today’s tabloid capital letter racism: Lenin’s Tomb – “Ethnics” Carmen gets around (II) – Ethnics, Ethnics, EVERYWHERE The enemies of reason: Express and ‘ethnics’: Now the veil has gone & Open letter to Express advertisers Tabloidwatch – Richard Desmond attacks ‘ethnics’ and ‘asylum scroungers’ & Those editorials [...]

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The Shameful Daily Express

July 8, 2010 – 10:16 am

Utterly, utterly appalling. Cannot quite bring myself to really go into this right now. Words just somehow don’t feel like enough in cases like this. Update: The Enemies of reason has two posts on this, both of them well worth reading, so go here and here for those. Left Outside has a brilliant post on [...]

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‘Live’ Grenades

June 5, 2010 – 11:08 pm

A classic piece of tabloid rubbish has been floating around today: ‘Don’t panic! Props for Dad’s Army play were live grenades‘ (Daily Mail); ‘Dad’s Army props were live grenades‘ (Daily Mirror) and ‘DON’T PANIC! OUR DAD’S ARMY PROPS ARE LIVE GRENADES‘ (Daily Express). As soon as I saw this story I thought what a huge [...]

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