Why I hate the Daily Mail, as distilled into one edition

Tbf, Littlejohn is a man who works as a journalist.

Nice digging. (Or rather typing a name into a website search engine, but that's still more than the Mail, Star or Mirror could manage)

This is depressing, either they didn't bother at all, and it looks like they didn't, or they did and still thought 'fuck it - let's run with it anyway'. Of course it is possible there's more than one woman with that name in Stoke. I guess that's the kind of thing journalists could check up on?

"not someone who works as a cunt....a cunt"

xp
Of course it is possible there's more than one (27 year old woman) with that name in Stoke.

How you usem news story.

Day one: Report story - initial details
Day two: Clarify story - longer version of same thing, more pics
Day three: Disprove story, quote someone else.

But whatever happens, do not disprove a story before you've had a chance to print it.

Wonder if that's the same Selwyn Brown that was in Steel Pulse?

Selywn Brown is made out of people

Even the legalisation of brothels, which I support...

guessing that our friend Richard has some troubles with women who work as prostitutes leading to his crazy vendetta.

The murder of three prostitutes in Bradford not only conjours

sounds a bit Frenchy for my liking, gerrarav our green + pleasant land you.

He already did, didn't he?

this bit from the fake evil bus driver story cracks me up

Miss Fardon's partner Chris Hall, a taxi driver, was so angry he defiantly bought England strips for all the children.

That'll show those non-existent foreign bastards.

they spend most of their time sifting thru shit on ppl they hate yet not a single enquiry on this shitty story

ycmiu

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1282860/Frenchman-arms-legs-set-swim-22-miles-English-Channel.html -> select worst rated comment

I lol'd :-(

Seem to remember that was an old joke - Q what do you call a man with no arms and legs who swims the channel? A EITHER Clever Dick OR Bob.

He should stop arsing around and get on with it!

soz.

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/06/04/article-1283942-09E2696E000005DC-370_468x286.jpg

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1283942/EasyJet-unveils-infrared-ash-detector-allow-pilots-steer-volcanic-debris.html

srsly shdn't read this shite but it's so compellingly shoddy

pretty sure that was on the today programme even tho i was half asleep.

That pic is hilarious. My nose just did one of those brief external bubbles of snot.

brief external bubbles of snot

If I ever form a neo-psychdelic band, this is what i'll it

...call it, that is

www.bebo.com

To be fair to the Mail, that pic has a caption underneath which reads

The AVOID infra-red system is attached to the nose of the aircraft and can monitor the skies up to 60 miles ahead

Nice they've put the whole page into Easyjet orange. Excellent brand work there, Mail dudes.

Get one Photoshop manual.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1282227/Horror-woman-stamps-baby-accused-phone-theft.html

Haha, that's just incredibly bad. They could at least have used two different poses from the baby.

some xposts but
i bet daily mail readers are relieved now they know which way the plane goes.

But it's red, that's a "don't fly in this direction" arrow!

I hope daily mail readers dont storm the cockpit to tell the pilot!

They will if they listen to the free Elton John CD...

From babbystomping article:

She must have been really upset.

- sidestep, london, 28/5/2010 15:33
Rating -142

My favorite picture is the third one, from BEFORE the incident. (also: trying to calm someone by holding a cell phone to their ear like that?)

However, one disgruntled customer said he was stunned to be approached by the firm after he posted angry comments on his personal Facebook page.

The BT business customer, who has asked not be named, wrote that he thought ‘BT are just a bunch of unaccountable, business shafting, useless b*******’.

Within hours he had been contacted by someone calling themselves ‘BT Sarah’, saying: ‘I saw your post about having problems with your BT services. Is there anything I can do to help?’

The customer, who runs an online business, said: ‘I did not expect what I was saying to my friends to be seen. I have since changed my privacy settings so only my friends can access my page. What happened was quite Big Brotherish and sinister.’

Even if this is true (it is the DM after all) FFS how stupid are some people? It's but a short step away to "I was having a conversation on the bus with a friend. I had no idea that other passengers could easily overhear us! It's very Big Brother-ish and sinister!"

"...and then the chap I was complaining about stood up and apologised! It was disgusting I tell you"

Getting pulled up on a Facebook comment is more invasive than getting pulled up on a Twitter one - people name-drop companies who are pissing them around on Twitter all the time intending to get their problem noticed.

Ironically, to avoid call centre 'service' I always look for/use the landline number given for international queries - it invariably leads to a very sorry native English speaker who can actually Do Stuff without being bound to script.

Within hours he had been contacted by someone calling themselves ‘BT Sarah’,

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_UJrzm-s9j9Q/SWqPOnCr6rI/AAAAAAAABSU/9OlP7ic9VTg/s320/label.jpg

many many xps

the stoke sentinel "broke" this story. ran a short follow-up with the bus co saying it didn't happen. then had 30 people claiming to have seen it, at least one of which got the day wrong. must be some sort of mass hallucination up there.

They've done a longer follow-up story now

Mum in 'offensive' England shirt row with First bus branded a 'liar'

Daily Mail article still up of course.

Next up in an occasional series of "Liz Jones is batshit insane", where not wearing makeup is enough to allow yourself not to be taken seriously:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1286122/LIZ-JONES-Why-hate-football-Volpone-children-beam-like-.html

Really Bad Journalism.

As noted by Tabloid Watch:

12 June: Katy Perry wears a dress!
13 June: Katy Perry wears a dress!
14 June: Katy Perry wears glasses!
15 June: Katy Perry wears a dress!
16 June: Katy Perry wears a dress!

18th June: Katy Perry wears a dress!
19th June: Katy Perry wears a dress!

20th June: Something was putting a smile on Russell Brand's face today and, for once, it wasn't his fiancée Katy Perry.

in many ways the Daily Mail is like some jeering moronic colleague - taking the piss out of your hor girlfriend while wanking himself off under the table over her

hoT

pfff, those stories: wears dress - big photo - details of her schedule - two more photos - she tweeted - russell brand - james corden show. They're all by different hacks as well.

It's like a daily chore and everyone has to do one.

So this page hits is really a thing then?

tbh i'm quite happy to be informed whenever k perry wears a dress, it's a talented professional doing what they do best in the public eye

21st June: Katy Perry wears something that isn't a dress! Oh and here's a picture of her in a dress!