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Altogether now; Chloe

si — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 09:19:34 +0000

Altogether now;

Chloe Annett: Foaming Twat.

>The Mail and the Express

Pete Part Three — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 08:31:54 +0000

>The Mail and the Express are both tabloids pretending to be broadsheets.

I get completely what you mean (delusions of grandeur), but the only defining feature of a broadsheet is its size.

I think they LOVE being the

performingmonkey — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 02:30:27 +0000

I think they LOVE being the paper that everyone slags off. The fact that Alan Partridge thinks it’s ‘arguably the greatest newspaper in the world’ says it all really. It’s basically a paper for people who think they’re above everybody else. Written by twats for twats. Surely an application form for a position there would be made up of just one question - ‘Are you a complete and utter bastard?’

There was no point buying

mick — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 00:25:16 +0000

There was no point buying The Express after they lost Garfield.

The Mail and the Express are

Seb Patrick — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 21:41:55 +0000

The Mail and the Express are both tabloids pretending to be broadsheets.

But as John says, that’s far from the worst crime in the Mail’s history.

The funniest thing about the

performingmonkey — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 20:52:56 +0000

The funniest thing about the Mail is that they like to think they’re above the ‘gutter’ press when that’s all they sell really.

The sickness of the press IMO can be summed up quite neatly with today’s story of the 12-year-old boy who fell to his death on a school ski trip. Reading the Mail’s online version of it here, the whole incident just seems to be peddled like a freakshow.

The worst part of it, for me, is -

‘Hayden’s elder sister Nicola today tearfully returned to the family home in Gillingham.

Clearly devastated by her brother’s death, she was too distressed to speak.’

Yeah, and surely you’re adding to her distress by trying to get her to make a comment! What do they want, blood? I just don’t like the way the whole thing reads. Not that it’s the Mail that are the only ones that do this.

It’s interesting how many

John Hoare — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 19:10:35 +0000

It’s interesting how many people read newspapers who *don’t* actually know or care what their political line is. I’ve been aware of what papers have what editorial line since I was in my early teens - but so many people seem to have no clue!

He may well just buy it for other reasons - maybe it has good coverage of some other stuff he’s interested in. But it’s always difficult to reconcile it in your head when someone so important to the likes of Spittng Image - even as an actor, rather than a writer - wouldn’t be politically aware enough to realise the Mail is evil. Because it really, really is - it goes far beyond just having politics I disagree with.

The paper we found after

mick — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 18:51:46 +0000

The paper we found after being given Chris’ room at DJ 2006 was the Independent, can’t believe he’s a big fascist!

Chloe Annett: sex tourist?

Dave — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 17:56:15 +0000

Chloe Annett: sex tourist?

>I thought you’d jokingly

Seb Patrick — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 16:57:18 +0000

>I thought you’d jokingly scanned in some ’50s comics or something. Jaysus.

Seconded. Those look like caricatures out of World War II-era propaganda.

… pretty much the point he made in his letter, yeah. His basic argument was “I understand the artist is a 70-something, set-in-his-ways bigot, but don’t you have editors for this kind of thing?”

Well at least it wasn’t

Baz — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 16:35:56 +0000

Well at least it wasn’t Mohammed. OR the winner of a French pig squealing competition.

He buys car and bike

James — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 16:28:10 +0000

He buys car and bike magazines! Listens to football! He must be a national front member…

>I thought you’d jokingly

Arlene Rimmer BSc SSc — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 15:43:01 +0000

>I thought you’d jokingly scanned in some ’50s comics or something. Jaysus.

Seconded. Those look like caricatures out of World War II-era propaganda.

I thought you’d jokingly

Ian Symes — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 15:32:57 +0000

I thought you’d jokingly scanned in some ’50s comics or something. Jaysus.

I didn’t scan it. A

Seb Patrick — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 15:27:15 +0000

I didn’t scan it. A friend, who was at his parents’ at the time, did. He’s also written a letter of complaint, and intends to take it to the Press Complaints Commission if there’s no follow-up.

My Media: Chris Barrie

John Hoare — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 00:40:52 +0000