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NewsBusters (Free subscription) | 28/10/2009
Ever since long-time radio talker Don Imus inked a deal with the Fox Business Network to simulcast his morning radio program, he said he has been getting pushback from several acquaintances. And as he explained and showed on his Oct. 28 program, he's not particularly pleased with the reaction about his deal with Fox News. "I get this email and the e-mail says, ‘Sorry to see you've sold...
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Metro.co.uk (Free subscription) | 27/10/2009
Grieving comic Matt Lucas is to take a break from his television career following the tragic death of his former partner Kevin McGee.
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Groc's various musings (Free subscription) | 23/10/2009
It's all still sleazy apparently... Jan Moir apologises for timing of Stephen Gately article. With the threat of a PCC complaint in the wings she's in with a 'quick' bit of damage limitation. So an apology for the timing - uh? in anyone else plain old common decency would have meant she'd have held off with the slander before he was buried - but there you go... and a somewhat late apology to Stephen...
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Entertainment and Showbiz! (Free subscription) | 23/10/2009
Matt Lucas has pulled out of the West End play Prick Up Your Ears following the death of his ex-partner Kevin McGee. The 32-year-old McGee, 32, had committed suicide last week. “Given the sad news, it is understandable that he could not return,” the Daily Star quoted the show’s producers as saying. Matt, 35, had entered into a [...]
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Love Life (Free subscription) | 22/10/2009
So my evidence- which covered lots of areas (see previous blog link)- was distilled into one subject- coke use by TV execs. See Daily Mail The Times Thaindian News The Metro Daily Star The Independent Broadcast Wouldn't it be good if some good could come of this? One of my friends is currently mourning Kevin McGee. He's the latest in a long list. Mark Speight and Kevin Greening two great talents, lost...
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Liberal England (Free subscription) | 18/10/2009
Welcome to this week's selection of the best in the British blogosphere. Oil companies and libel lawyers are trying to stop the reporting of questions in Parliament or even prevent their being asked at all. The British government is trying to prevent the courts from revealing its complicity in torture. But as far as the nominations received, the most important story this week is... Jan Moir and Stephen...
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Joe. My. God. (Free subscription) | 18/10/2009
"Another real sadness about [Irish boy band Boyzone leader singer Stephen] Gately's death is that it strikes another blow to the happy-ever-after myth of civil partnerships. Gay activists are always calling for tolerance and understanding about same-sex relationships, arguing that they are just the same as heterosexual marriages. Not everyone, they say, is like George Michael. "Of course,...
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Hayley Clarke Media (Free subscription) | 18/10/2009
I find it hugely hypocritical that Daily Mail 'journalist' Jan Moir feels she has fallen victim to a 'heavily orchestrated campaign' when that is precisely what the Mail itself generated following the Ross-Brand incident. Her article is nothing more than speculation, an obvious case of someone who is a jack of all trades but a master in none as she clutches at straws to tie links between "the...
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English Language @ SFX (Free subscription) | 18/10/2009
Stephen Gately was gay. And now he is dead. Therefore he must have died of being gay. Such is the deranged subtext of Jan Moir's Daily Mail opinion piece, which has apparently become the single most complained about newspaper article in the Press Complaints Commission's history. In her column , originally entitled Why there was nothing "natural" about Stephen Gately's death , but later amended...
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Movie Dearest (Free subscription) | 18/10/2009
Keep up to date with all the latest from the entertainment world with the MD News Desk : Out in Film : - Neil Patrick Harris stars as "The Music Meister" in a sneak peek of what may be the gayest Batman episode ever. - Seth Rudetsky chats with Tony Award winner Michael Rupert and the hilarious playwright Christopher Durang . - Ian McKellen on his "geek projects" , The Hobbit and...
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Lenin's Tomb (Free subscription) | 16/10/2009
Don't waste your time going to visit the Daily Mail website to read that Moir article. You can see the whole thing here . (Then, if you are moved by Charlie Brooker's column , you can complain here ). As you'll have gathered by now, Mail columnist Jan Moir decided to use the death of singer Stephen Gately to suggest that something terribly sinister is afoot when gay men have relations. Gately died...
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Tabloid Watch (Free subscription) | 16/10/2009
Reading Jan Moir's hateful, homophobic rant about Stephen Gately's death on the Mail website this morning was one of those totally jaw-dropping, lost for words moments that the tabloids still manage to inflict. As Anton and Jamie and many, many others quickly pointed out, the problems with the article began with the headline: Why there was nothing 'natural' about Stephen Gately's death Of course, the...
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Feminazery (Free subscription) | 16/10/2009
It has taken me several attempts to write this. My first attempt looked like this: dsfgsdfgdsafgiojhgRoiv['hnWS' IOFJNADF'IL VJNADJ' FJC'WO accompanied by incoherent shouting, rapid twittering, and frothing at the mouth. After a few hours of calming meditation, crocheting some oatmeal, twittering, and listening to Women's Hour, I managed this: Jan Moir is a vile, homophobic, horrid waste of perfectly...
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The Urban Woo (Free subscription) | 16/10/2009
Not much point saying anything about Jan Moir's Daily Mail vitriol about Stephen Gately, but it's fun to poke holes in her apology here . Basically, she's saying SEX KILLS, which is a typical Mail attitude, so why are we surprised? But it's Moir's comment that nobody fit and healthy can die a sudden death that is especially ignorant. As my chum Mr Wiseman pointed out, does this mean that Richard Beckinsale,...
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Angry Mob (Free subscription) | 16/10/2009
Hagley Road to Ladywood announced it last week: anti-gay propaganda is back at the top of the Mail agenda. Since Stephen Gately's death last week, the Daily Mail has been desperately trying to dig up some dirt. In spite of official confirmations that the Boyzone star died of natural causes, the Mail has decided that the unfortunate death of an innocent 33-year-old man is fair game (see, for instance,...
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