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Daily Mail shows pictures of a woman's bits (yes, I'm talking downtown)

The Daily Mail has published a photo online in which you can quite clearly see that former page 3 model Nicola McLean is wearing a very short dress, and has no underwear on. (And by "quite clearly" I mean that... Continue reading

Posted Mar 17, 2011 at The Media Blog

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Updated: @bootsmealdeal's disgust with the police: the real deal?

UK Uncut protestors outside Boots in London were gassed with CS spray earlier - which prompted the @BootsMealDeal twitter account to tweet: "We at Boots are disgusted by police behaviour today" (screenshot). The twitter account is now deleted - so... Continue reading

Posted Jan 30, 2011 at The Media Blog

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ITV News slams Nigella Lawson as unattractive

BONG! ITV News twitter slams Nigella Lawson. BONG! Someone probably logged into the wrong account. BONG! Hastily deleting it hasn't stopped it being retweeted. BONG! At least they didn't call her a silly bint. And here's the original (thanks to... Continue reading

Posted Dec 18, 2010 at The Media Blog

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Lord Sugar calls Kirstie Allsopp a lying cow on Twitter

Lord Sugar and Kirsti Allsopp have been having a set-to on Twitter. Kirstie levelled the following at the tycoon formerly known as Suralan: There r words I don't use, but when it comes to Sugar & his treatment of the... Continue reading

Posted Oct 9, 2010 at The Media Blog

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More evidence the Sun gets its headlines from Twitter

Exhibit A - 17 hours ago Simon Ricketts' tweet: Exhibit B - 11 hours ago Exhibit C - 8 hours ago Exhibit D - 15 days ago George Michael story. Continue reading

Posted Sep 30, 2010 at The Media Blog

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Daily Mail runs picture of a large cock

Update: There are now three schools of thought. A photoshopped cock, an inflatable rubber dong, and a combination of light off his suit lining and apophenia (h/t Chris Applegate). Here's a picture of George Osborne from the Mail Online (and... Continue reading

Posted Sep 11, 2010 at The Media Blog

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Whose "Wayne Rooney prostitute" exclusive is it?

World Exclusive says the Mirror: "Wayne Rooney cheats on pregnant wife Coleen with £1k-a-night prostitute". Exclusive says the News of the World: "Cheating Wayne Rooney beds hooker: £1,200 romps while Coleen was pregnant". So who got it first? Well even... Continue reading

Posted Sep 5, 2010 at The Media Blog

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Great Times paywall deal: pay £1 for a page you can read for free ...

Would you pay £1 for something you can read for free? An advert in the Times newspaper last week encouraged readers to sign up for thetimes.co.uk, now locked away behind a paywall. According to the advert, for just £1 you... Continue reading

Posted Aug 15, 2010 at The Media Blog

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Sexist! Racist! Non-existent Foreign Office ban on middle-class white males

See if you can spot the obvious flaw in this Daily Mail story claiming that: "[Foreign Office] work placement schemes specifically ban white, middle-class males from applying for the £367-a-week positions. Under the tightly-drawn rules, only women, people from ethnic... Continue reading

Posted Jul 25, 2010 at The Media Blog

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Digital highs are a "made up" drug

Remember Chris Morris and Cake? "One kiddy on Cake cried all the water out of his body. Just imagine how his mother felt. It's a fucking disgrace". Now imagine if Bernard Manning had got hold of this Daily Mail story,... Continue reading

Posted Jul 20, 2010 at The Media Blog

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"Cam winning battle for mums" says News of the World. Figures show the opposite.

The News of the World's despair over the election was obvious from every line of its coverage yesterday - nowhere more so than the page that gave five times more space to an informal poll of mums (showing Cameron in... Continue reading

Posted Apr 19, 2010 at The Media Blog

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Guardian exclusive: Man U valued at £800,000

Trevor Francis was the first million-pound football transfer back in 1979. Given there have been 30 years of inflation, you'd have thought someone at the Guardian might have thought it a bit odd that a whole football club was valued... Continue reading

Posted Mar 6, 2010 at The Media Blog

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Pressure mounts on BBC over nothing news stories

The BBC has cut five words from a news story to avoid looking like idiots. A week ago, it ran "Pressure mounts to phase out Internet Explorer 6": A Downing Street petition is calling for the UK government to drop... Continue reading

Posted Feb 9, 2010 at The Media Blog

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ITV: 91% of people think Adam Crozier is overpaid

Post Office boss Adam Crozier is to be the new CEO of ITV. But what has ITV itself said about Crozier in the past? This is my favourite piece on the ITV website - revealing that 9 out of 10... Continue reading

Posted Jan 28, 2010 at The Media Blog

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Moneyfacing: Mail attacked for using pictures without permission

Moneyfacing is, apparently, the new craze, according to the Daily Mail: "photographs of folded-over banknotes placed in front of a person's half-visible face." The Telegraph also has a moneyfacing article. But the Mail is being attacked in the comments on... Continue reading

Posted Dec 11, 2009 at The Media Blog

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I do like a conspiracy theory. So here's one: did Gordon Brown get his wife to send a deliberately gibberish tweet so he could tell a funny story a week later about their son hitting the keys while they weren't... Continue reading

Posted Dec 8, 2009 at The Media Blog

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Call Deep Thought. I need a computer to tell me the best time to write about Halloween.

There's an interesting post at the Online Journalism Blog about AOL's plans to use user data to prioritise stories and even pay writers. This bit leapt out at me though from the original article: The system is designed to track... Continue reading

Posted Dec 1, 2009 at The Media Blog

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Johnston Press has started experimenting with paywalls. I'm not convinced it's going to be a success if they don't give some thought to what they call theproduct ... Continue reading

Posted Nov 30, 2009 at The Media Blog

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Gotcha! 3am website in keyword-stuffing SEO U-turn

The 3am gossip site - a spin off from the Daily Mirror - has been accused (by me, that is, over at the econsultancy blog) of stuffing their pages with keywords to rank better in Google. This is despite claiming... Continue reading

Posted Nov 17, 2009 at The Media Blog

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The Sun and Mail pull stories about Professor Nutt's son: PCC complaint on its way?

The Sun and Daily Mail recently indulged in a gross breach of the privacy of Steve Nutt - son of Professor David Nutt, the recently sacked government scientific adviser. They accused him of taking drugs and being obsessed with terrorism,... Continue reading

Posted Nov 16, 2009 at The Media Blog

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I'm a Celebrity 2009: Sun winning SEO trial

I'm a Celebrity 2009 kicks off on Sunday - and the Sun looks best placed to benefit from the increase in search traffic. Here's where traditional print/broadcast media sit in Google's top 20 results for a search on 'I'm a... Continue reading

Posted Nov 13, 2009 at The Media Blog

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Daily Mail: where is your poppy?

The Daily Mail has been lambasting football clubs for playing games without wearing "the poppy that symbolises respect for the nation's heroes". But where's its poppy, eh? Other papers are wearing poppies - why is the Mail a poppy refusenik... Continue reading

Posted Nov 11, 2009 at The Media Blog

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Sun readers pro the PM over letter of condolence

Sun readers don't agree with the paper's spiteful anti-Gordon-Brown campaign if the comments on its website are anything to go by. We've pointed out that the paper has misjudged the mood with its stories about the PM's handwritten letter of condolence. And hard evidence comes in the form of readers' reactions to the story. Continue reading

Posted Nov 11, 2009 at The Media Blog

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