Tag Archives: The Sun

Sheena Upton / Kerry Campbell

May 19, 2011 – 9:35 pm

Tabloid Watch pointed out today that our beloved tabloid press – you know, the one that keeps screaming about how important it is that we have a free press in order to better hold people to account for their actions – in the form of the Daily Express can’t even bring themselves to apologise for [...]

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A bad day for the Sun

March 25, 2011 – 9:14 pm

From Football365′s Mediawatch page: The World’s Worst Racist ‘BRUCE IN NEW RACE ROW’ positively screams the back page headline from The Sun in two-inch high letters, reporting that Bruce ‘has been caught up in another race storm.’ Oh lord. Really? It seems that Marcos Angeleri, the Argentine defender signed by Sunderland in the summer, is [...]

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More classic back page headlines

March 8, 2011 – 4:44 pm

From the ever-excellent Football365′s Mediawatch section: When Mediawatch saw Pep Guardiola’s comments about Jack Wilshere, we sighed and knew, just knew, that the tabs would run around screaming and wettting their pants like little boys who’d had too much Capri Sun. For the record, Pep said (in his second or third language, note): “Wilshere is [...]

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Ink bomb defused ’17 minutes before it was due to go off’

November 4, 2010 – 6:32 pm

According to reports in the Daily Mail, Mirror, The Sun and the Daily Telegraph one of the ink bombs was defused just ’17 minutes before it was due to go off’. The information was disseminated by the French interior Brice Hortefeux via French TV. The Mail, Mirror and Sun all fail to make any mention [...]

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Wishing for just a little bit of context

September 8, 2010 – 10:47 pm

Occasionally a story comes along and the shoddy and dishonest way it is reported really makes me realise why I spend time writing this blog. This isn’t the case of a ‘few bad apples’ but a universal, consistent and poisonous misrepresentation of reality. Spotting the obvious lies is easy, but when a story lingers on [...]

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