Tuesday, January 27th, 2009
Has the recent purchase of The London Evening Standard given its contributors and editors carte blanche to dump its previous owner The Daily Mail Group in the shit?
Emma Duncan (deputy editor of The Economist) writes in today’s London Evening Standard about the BBC and the DEC Gaza appeal.
My belief that Mr Thompson was right is strengthened by reports that the BBC has had 10,000 complaints. I’m pretty sure this isn’t because 10,000 cross individuals have rung or written off their own bat. I’m fairly certain that you need an organised campaign to get that sort of tidal wave of emails and phone calls.
Hmmm..
From the Daily Mail (19th November 2008):
The corporation has now received more than 42,000 complaints over the foul messages left for Mr Sachs by Ross, 47 and 33-year-old Brand.”
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Also tagged bbc, Daily Mail, DEC Gaza appeal, Emma Duncan, gutter press, jonathan ross, laughing stock, phonecalls, russell brand, SKy News, The Sun
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Thursday, October 30th, 2008
Wednesday, October 29th, 2008
Meanwhile, dominating the headlines in laughing-stock Britain,
Update – I think I prefer this version and there is a different large version if you click on it…
Click image or here for much larger.
Yes, I’ve done this type of image before and it’s the same message – the demonisation of celebrity for readership and ratings. New visitors may notice that I used the same background picture when I created a Pete Doherty and Kate Moss image which was used to publicise an exhibition at The ICA and was subsequently screenprinted by the artist, Russell Young. At that time, I reckoned any simpleton would understand the meaning of the image without the addition of a newspaper logo – I was wrong and The Daily Mail went to town on it – and stole the original from this website to run on theirs.
JR and RB might have been dickheads but the furore and politicisation of the whole event is beyond all proportion.
