Hi Chris
Thanks for your comments. A lot of what I know about what goes on in newsrooms is from Nick Davies’ “Flat Earth News”, a rather disturbing account of proprietors only interested in profit and journalists under so much pressure to get stories out that they have little time to find out the ‘real’ story. One of the main sources they use is PR material, which of course comes from vested interests.
Ben Goldacre’s “Bad Science” is a good one for seeing how journalists handle science stories which they often don’t actually understand.
wow, it’s practically an express full house! if only that narrow strip advertising franchises were advertising carpetright instead, or maddie was where the free beauty treatment is, it would tick all the boxes.
If only we had some kind of pesky, politically-correct-youghurt-hugging, anti-discrimination law to guard against this kind of thing….. oh wait, we have.
So much for the claim that immigration doesn’t cost British people their jobs! What you have here is a company actually admitting that it won’t employ Brits. Needless to say, none of the lefties on this site have a problem with that. Probably because you’re all either pampered students or in cushy white-collar jobs where you don’t have to compete with immigrant labour. But if an employer said that they wouldn’t employ Muslims…why, you’d all be in a state of uproar!
Diana Monday is back!
PS: What’s up witht he forum?
Way, hey! The Diana conspiracy theory’s back! Is this new or is it a slow news day?
They think it’s all over, not it isn’t.
Diana stories are the tabloid equivalent of cans of baked beans: you keep them in the cupboard to be used when you’ve got nothing else in.
The French are evil! Win a French camper! I’m getting a little confused now…
Wahey! She’s back! And on a Monday, too!
There’ll be dancing in the streets, I tell you!
Aww, ain’t that cute? It’s just like the old days!
“Diana stories are the tabloid equivalent of cans of baked beans: you keep them in the cupboard to be used when you’ve got nothing else in”
Phil, you either work in the press, or you are very perceptive, as you are totally right.
Most magazines, newspapers, have stockpiles of these sort of articles, that they bring out, when they have nothing else to report on.
Conspiracy theories,
“my amazing son with 8 arms”,
“I bought this car in 1931 and it hasn’t broken down once”.
Newspapers are basically made up of 50% “live” stories on current affairs, and 50% stockpiled trash.
It’s just impossible to create that amount of copy in 24 hours.
Much of it is old
Diana, free crap and FURY about foreigners!
It’s the jackpot!
Diana’s looking well! But where’s Maddie?
Hi Chris
Thanks for your comments. A lot of what I know about what goes on in newsrooms is from Nick Davies’ “Flat Earth News”, a rather disturbing account of proprietors only interested in profit and journalists under so much pressure to get stories out that they have little time to find out the ‘real’ story. One of the main sources they use is PR material, which of course comes from vested interests.
Ben Goldacre’s “Bad Science” is a good one for seeing how journalists handle science stories which they often don’t actually understand.
wow, it’s practically an express full house! if only that narrow strip advertising franchises were advertising carpetright instead, or maddie was where the free beauty treatment is, it would tick all the boxes.
Hurrah She’s alive
Expresso news on http://tabloid-watch.blogspot.com/2010/03/anatomy-of-newspaper.html
If only we had some kind of pesky, politically-correct-youghurt-hugging, anti-discrimination law to guard against this kind of thing….. oh wait, we have.
So much for the claim that immigration doesn’t cost British people their jobs! What you have here is a company actually admitting that it won’t employ Brits. Needless to say, none of the lefties on this site have a problem with that. Probably because you’re all either pampered students or in cushy white-collar jobs where you don’t have to compete with immigrant labour. But if an employer said that they wouldn’t employ Muslims…why, you’d all be in a state of uproar!
Poor old Britain.
Neander:
Brits are not banned from the jobs. Don’t believe the hype!