how to be tasteless as a journalist and make money

northernneil

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1347621/Joanna-Yeates-murder-Becoming-just-thumbnail-police-website.html?ito=feeds-newsxml

one of the strangest and disturbing articles I have ever read. From the bar not being 'trendy' to not having 50p ???

I think the comments section says it all

northernneil

daily mash as ever get there first http://tiny.cc/jxd12

shm_uk

Business as usual for the gossip rag that is the Daily Mail ...

15peter20

the most bizarre and nonsensical paragraph in the whole sorry article is this:

"There is now an angry queue behind me. Isn’t it interesting that you can snatch a young woman’s life away from her in the most violent, painful, frightening way possible, take away her future children, her future Christmases, take away everything she loves, and yet there are elaborate systems in place to ensure you do not cross a bridge for only 30 pence?"

WTF??? As if having an efficient toll bridge system is in any way related to a failure to protect a murdered woman!

zippypablo

the whole article is just bizarre. Liz Jones regularly/always writes complete sh1te. (not sure if it's always because I don't buy the paper but sometimes scan it at the in-laws when round for Sunday lunch).

Pross

WTF? I thought was going to be yet another anti-Mail rant for the sake of it but that is the most bizarre piece of journalism I've ever read. She wishes Jo had spent her last hours in a better place? Maybe she liked it in there? I used to go there pretty much every Friday lunchtime as I worked next door and always liked the place. Why has this awful woman used a tragic murder of a young person to rant about such inconsequential things? It comes to something when even the Mail's comments contributors are showing a human side and condeming her! :x

tebbit

I concur with the above comments a truly dreadful article.

deptfordmarmoset

The most morbid and superficial bit of journalism I have ever read. Is it a new genre: rubber-hacking?

finchy

Here's the most Daily Mail article ever.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/artic ... xpert.html

gregster10217

I gave up reading anything Liz Jones wrote/writes when she coughed to having hundreds of thousands of debt, and continued to lecture on how to budget/spend your money etc.
Condescending cow, living a life she cannot afford and writing utter tripe to pay off her debts.
As for the article, I don't think the police will be able to let Jo just become another thumb nail due to the media/public interest, so fingers crossed they find the b*stard soon.

-spider-

When I saw that the link was to the Daily Heil, I didn't bother. How that rag can be called a newspaper is beyond me. It panders to the insecure emotions of a selfish and pandered readership.

I don't give it the time of day - even if it is free.

tx14

gregster10217 wrote:

I gave up reading anything Liz Jones wrote/writes when she coughed to having hundreds of thousands of debt, and continued to lecture on how to budget/spend your money etc.
Condescending cow, living a life she cannot afford and writing utter tripe to pay off her debts.
As for the article, I don't think the police will be able to let Jo just become another thumb nail due to the media/public interest, so fingers crossed they find the b*stard soon.

hey now tripe is nice if done right.

BigJimmyB

"I almost buy that upmarket pizza; the choice tells me Jo wanted a lovely life, something above the ordinary."

Septic Peg 'reads' pizzas!

"Finally, a man in a taxi jumps out, and runs to me brandishing a 50p piece.
‘Not all men are monsters,’ he says, grinning. Maybe not. But one monster is all it takes."

That's just got 'made up for effect' all over it.

What a d1ck this hack is....

Do yourselves a favour, don't read the rag.

15peter20

looks like the 'Twitosphere' has turned on her savagely! Good.

http://www.thefirstpost.co.uk/73843,peo ... -jo-yeates

shouldbeinbed

15peter20 wrote:

looks like the 'Twitosphere' has turned on her savagely! Good.

http://www.thefirstpost.co.uk/73843,peo ... -jo-yeates

hot on the heels of the impoverished middle class christmas angst and Twitter took that one on too.

mind numbing stuff and frightening that not only did the dumb bint write it but a variety of editors approved it into print

straas

Reads just like something that journalist from harry potter would write!

spen666

I love to hear the self righteous on here slating the Daily Mail.

Interestingly, it is by far the 2nd most popular newspaper in the country. it is read by nearly 25% of those who read papers

The figueres are from the ABC circulation figures. Interestingly, the most popular newspaer is the equally frequently derided Sun.


The Sun ; 2,717,013 ; -5.10 2,717,013 33.39%
Daily Mail ; 2,030,968 ; -3.89 2,030,968 24.96%
Daily Star ; 713,602 ; -9.09 713,602 8.77%
The Daily Telegraph ; 631,280 ; -10.23 631,280 7.76%
Daily Express ; 623,689 ; -7.98 623,689 7.66%
The Times ; 448,463 ; -14.01 448,463 5.51%
Financial Times ; 390,121 ; -2.67 390,121 4.79%
The Guardian ; 264,819 ; -11.89 264,819 3.25%
The Independent ; 175,002 ; -6.39 175,002 2.15%
The Herald ; 51,469 ; -7.78 51,469 0.63%
Racing Post ; 49,274 ; -12.39 49,274 0.61%
The Scotsman ; 41,572 ; -7.56 41,572 0.51%

8,137,272 100%

waddlie

So what did you think of the article then, Spen? A quality piece of journalism, was it?

The Mail is sandwiched between The Sun and The Star in your stats. Its market share demonstrates that the vast majority of people who buy newspapers are thick; it certainly doesn't indicate that the Mail is in anyway a quality newspaper.

Still, any chance to lord it over everyone else, eh?

tx14

well that's encouraging, top three most read papers are all tabloids.
do people buy them for the pictures, or the vouchers?

WisePranker

News Thump have got their coverage about spot on

http://newsthump.com/2011/01/17/liz-jon ... captivity/

fleshtuxedo

WisePranker wrote:

News Thump have got their coverage about spot on

http://newsthump.com/2011/01/17/liz-jon ... captivity/

"what was the spelling like inside the Fritzl basement?"

Pross

I've re-read the article and the comments and of the comments there are a few people suggesting that the aim of the article is to ensure the story doesn't disappear. That may be the case but if it is the crass nature of the article shows that as well as having questionable judgement the writer also lacks any kind of journalistic skill. If I were Jo's parents I would be making a complaint to the Mail for the article. What makes her think she has the right to decide what Jo would be thinking? Is she the same woman who was moaning about lack of money a month or two back?

afx237vi

More quality journalism here;

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/ar ... peech.html

Not only is the entire basis of the article incorrect (according to the comments she says sweetie, not Sooty), he thinks the most unrealistic part of the Kill Bill films is someone taking a sword on a plane :shock:

Uma Thurman single-handedly kicking the collective arse of the Crazy 88's? Yes, that's perfectly realistic.

simonaspinall

I saw the headline of the mail yesterday when in the supermarket - Something about how millions of children branded bigots as they will be disciplined for using homophobic or racist language - even in the playground!!!! :shock:

I don't know whether to laugh or cry sometimes.

bails87

simonaspinall wrote:

I saw the headline of the mail yesterday when in the supermarket - Something about how millions of children branded bigots as they will be disciplined for using homophobic or racist language - even in the playground!!!! :shock:

I don't know whether to laugh or cry sometimes.

You need to laugh. At the Daily Mail. Because it's not true. You do know that the PCC ruled that headlines don't have to truthful or accurate don't you? So never, EVER believe a headline without reading the story, all the way through, especially to the last paragraph that often contains the comment from a spokesman that puts it all in context and explains what's actually happening.