The Irish Soul: in Dialogue: Conversations with Roddy Doyle, Richard Kearney, Cardinal Desmond Connell and Others
Tabloid Watch (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
After yet another stupid health scare story yesterday ( too much salt is bad for you, shock ), the Express was back to one of its other favourite topics today: Islam. Or should that be anti-Islam hysteria? There is so much wrong with the Express' article that it's hard to know where to start. But let's try this: the headline '£113,000 aid to fanatics who want to kill us' no longer exists on the...
Tabloid Watch (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
The Daily Star should be renamed the Daily Jordan. The tawdry rag has had the over-inflated, over-exposed (insert whatever it is you think she does/is here) on the front page for every one of the last six days, and for nine of the last ten. Is there really nothing more important going on in the world? And every front page headline is a piece of total fiction. So Jordan's 'girl on girl jungle lust'...
John Rentoul (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
As The Independent on Sunday' s Katie Price correspondent (a post I secured because Alan Watkins was away that week), I draw readers' attention to another gem of postmodern media satire on the front cover of OK! magazine. The top headline is: Katie: "My only interview" I think this means: Katie: "My only interview in OK! magazine this week" But if Ian Hislop wants to report Richard...
Media Week (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
LONDON - Richard Desmond's Northern & Shell has rejigged its commercial operations in advance of the imminent departure of its head of trading, Mel Danks.
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
From the Sindie : Has the Evening Standard got it in for its old editor? A piece about the tussle between Veronica Wadley and Liz Forgan...put Ben Bradshaw's description of Wadley as "a Tory patsy" in the headline. Then, at the Standard's glittering "Influentials" party, Wadley wasn't there while Richard Desmond, bitter opponent of her husband, Tom Bower, was. Even the list of...
Daily Star (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
DAILY Star owner Richard Desmond is joined by stars including TV's Jon Culshaw and Andrew Sachs today as he reopens the Marie Curie Hospice, Hampstead, after a £3.8m revamp part funded by his supergroup the RD Crusaders. To donate visit mariecurie.org.uk/hampstead
Newspaper Innovation (Free subscription) | 08/11/2009
The last issue of Associated Newspapers’ London Lite will be published on Friday November 13 according to The Guardian. After Richard Desmond (The Daily Express, the Daily Star) said he was thinking about a London evening free paper, London-i, in November 2004 the Evening Standard countered this with its own spoiler on December 14, 2004. The 48-page [...]
Tabloid Watch (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
Here's a screenshot from the story that is currently fifth highest in the UK news section of the Express website: Yes, it's an advert for a bra. Sorry, a miracle bra. It also appears on the OK! magazine website - which also happens to be owned by Richard Desmond - so no doubt they have paid handsomely for the coverage. The article , which begins with the curious question: Cleavage like crepe paper?...
Tony Greenstein's Blog (Free subscription) | 25/10/2009
Mark Stephens Threatens Libel Action against Dr Derek Summerfield for criticising Israel's Apologist for Torture - Yoram Blachar Shurely some mistake as my old friend Lord Gnome might say. Whispers have reached our ears that Mark Stephens of Finer, Stephens, Innocent has threatened Derek Summerfield, the doctor who has been tirelessly campaigning against the complicity of the Israeli Medical Association...
Dizzy Thinks (Free subscription) | 23/10/2009
Ever heard of the Front Page Campaign ? I heard about it via an EDM signed by various prudes in Parliament. The campaign says "Children and young people are routinely being exposed to pornography in the UK. This has to STOP!", simple yes? Actually no, it's not. You see, this is not about a concern with kids seeing the cover of Mayfair, Razzle, or a variety of Richard Desmond titles with the...
Media Week (Free subscription) | 16/10/2009
LONDON - Richard Desmond's Daily Star continues to shine bright among daily national newspapers, recording a double-digit leap in circulation.
Keep It Legal (Free subscription) | 12/10/2009
News that the BBC has paid out almost £1 million in costs and damages for libel from current affairs programmes in 2 years has shocked the Sunday Express . Not me. The BBC received 71 complaints about libel since January 2008 and spent £121,000 on lawyers to defend itself, says the Sunday Ex press . Consider just one fact about the output of the BBC: over 78,000 radio hours in its past...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 02/10/2009
It's a scandal that the Nottingham world champion can't get a deal with a major network The late Mike Murphy, who edited Grandstand and Match Of The Day, knew more about sport and TV than just about anyone of his era and used to say there were two bankers in the business: football and boxing. How times have changed. While the nation froths – quite rightly – over the Ukraine-England World...
Tabloid Watch (Free subscription) | 29/09/2009
Currently the fifth story in the UK News section of the Express website : This is the second time in a week the Express has run an advertising feature in the 'news' section. Clearly, Richard Desmond hasn't learnt anything about mixing advertising and editorial .
Tabloid Watch (Free subscription) | 27/09/2009
Many thanks to Claude at Hagley Road to Ladywood for highlighting a recent Daily Star article which seemed little more than a recruiting ad for the English Defence League (EDL). Or make that 'ads' because this began a day earlier than first noted. On Wednesday 23 September the Star ran this: (Pic found online, the original article has been removed but a cached version is here ) The headline stands...
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