Archive for the 'newspapers' Category
The Daily Mail are pants
Yazan: Sara | 25 April 2010 | 4 Comments
Categories: newspapers
What would you call someone who followed an attractive woman as she purchased underwear? In my book, that’s a pervert, but apparently it’s a Daily Mail reporter. According to the reporter, who is apparently too ashamed to give his/her name on the byline, ‘The Liberal Democrat leader’s Spanish-born spouse spent an hour-and-a-half in the famous [...]
Jan Moir? The Daily Mail’s got plenty more where she came from
Yazan: Sara | 17 February 2010 | 1 Comment
Categories: newspapers
What is is with the Daily Mail and the death of gay men? First it was the outrageous bigotry of Jan Moir on the death of Stephen Gately; today Mail journalist Geoffrey Levy turns the paper’s moral fire onto Ray Gosling. With the headline ‘Brilliant, eccentric BBC film-maker Ray Gosling says he killed his dying [...]
Maybe the Daily Mail should keep its mouth shut?
Yazan: Sara | 12 February 2010 | No Comments
Categories: marriage, newspapers
As well as the appalling racist cartoon, the Daily Mail has also used their more usual tactic of a screaming, outraged headline to grab readers’ attention today. Labour’s legacy: Marriage rates plummet to the lowest level since 1862 As Gordon Brown’s Labour government faced mounting claims it has failed to support the institution, it emerged [...]
Daily Mail promotes thieves and vandals charter
Yazan: Sara | 18 January 2010 | 1 Comment
Categories: crime, criminal justice, newspapers
An article in today’s Daily Mail shows all the signs of a cut and shut story which has seriously lost its way. The piece entitled ‘Minor ‘crimes’ of the middle classes raking in a £400m fortune for cash-hungry councils’ starts with the usual Mailesque jibe at fines for putting your rubbish bin out on the [...]
Racism isn’t acceptable no matter how ‘clever’ you are
Yazan: Sara | 05 December 2009 | No Comments
Categories: newspapers
Rod Liddle has built a career out of being controversial. Forced from Radio 4’s Today programme in 2002, after writing what was considered to be a party political column in The Guardian, he went on to make a controversial documentary for Channel 4 entitled ‘Immigration is a Time Bomb’. The film expressed concerns about the impact [...]
Shocking abuse – and a shocking misunderstanding of statistics
Yazan: sarabedford | 04 July 2009 | 1 Comment
Categories: newspapers
Today’s Times carries a report on the extraordinarily high levels of rape and domestic violence and abuse amongst indigenous Australians or Aboriginals. It was an interesting report, but in the same way that I can be distracted by a misplaced apostrophe, my mind was diverted by an amazingly poor understanding of very simple statistics early [...]
Council tax rises are infinitely bigger than you think
Yazan: sarabedford | 27 March 2009 | 1 Comment
Categories: council tax, newspapers
The Times has a standard council tax article today, telling its readers what huge increases are being imposed on them. I expect many readers were worried by the third paragraph, which read: The move came after [local government minister] Mr Healey announced that the average Band D council tax bill would go up from April [...]
Why spoil a good story with a bad headline?
Yazan: sarabedford | 17 March 2009 | No Comments
Categories: criminal justice, newspapers, police
Yesterday LibDem MP Paul Homes broke the story of the cost of keeping prisoners in police cells. Now there are several reasons why we should not be using police stations for this purpose, of which the cost is only one. There are many good reasons why we should not be locking so many people up. [...]
Women – loose or dumbed down?
Yazan: sarabedford | 09 March 2009 | 1 Comment
Categories: newspapers, television, Uncategorized
I switched on the television earlier to watch something over lunch to find the start of Loose Women on ITV. Now I don’t suppose I’m in the target audience for the programme, but with all the various stories around International Women’s Day, you would have thought there would be a decent story to lead on. [...]
Practise what you preach!
Yazan: sarabedford | 31 January 2009 | No Comments
Categories: newspapers, Uncategorized
This week’s Watford Observer hosts its usual recruitment advertorial on page 57. The article is entitled ‘How to write a flawless CV’. With a title like that, you just knew that a gremlin would appear somewhere. And so it did. Under the heading ‘Making a good impression’, it states: When laying out your CV, don’t [...]
