One of the greatest comic journalists ever to hit a key passed away two months ago and bloggers worldwide should mourn his passing. He had passion, intelligence, and a ferocious antipathy towards any kind of mediocrity, but most of all he had style. No-one else could construct a sentence like him. In terms of sheer [...]
This is neither new nor particularly newsworthy, but, as public apologies for pisspoor journalism go, I think it’s among the funniest items The Sun has ever published. I’ll let it speak for itself: “In an article published on The Sun website on January 27 under the headline ‘Gollum joker killed in live rail horror’ we incorrectly [...]
And by that I don’t mean an MRSA squittercane. I’m talking about Gordon Brown jumping on the D-Day 65th anniversary bandwagon at the mearest hint that Barack Obama might stand shoulder-to-shoulder with the increasingly few surviving D-Day vets to remember their friends who fell on the beaches of Normandy. A public campaign, kicked off by The Independent newspaper back last June, [...]
This picture, more than anything, has convinced me that print media is dead. It was taken backstage at last Friday’s Comic Relief on Jonathan Ross’s cameraphone, from which it was then Twittered to the world, and confirms everything Stephen Fry ever said about Twitter’s ability to entirely bypass normal media channels. What would it have taken to get [...]
The blogverse is in uproar over a Scottish Sunday Express front page splash that sets a new low water mark for lazy, pointless gutter journalism. Ex-Daily Record journo Paula Murray appears to have trawled through every social networking site on the planet to dredge up whatever ‘disgusting’ details she can find about the now adult survivors of [...]
Although I left home in 1987 to head South to University, I still find myself drawn to the city of my birth and upbringing. Hull. Shortly after arriving at the University of Reading (and Writing) I was asked whether or not my voice was “deliberate”! That was a defining moment. At the age of 18 [...]
…because I hate the N.M.E. and that must make me over a thousand years old. I think it’s because I no longer have any patience for overdramatising, fictionalising, or, indeed, attaching any importance whatsoever to musicians, and it all started with this cover from last July. First off, it’s Bobby Gillespie, who I’ve always thought was a busted flush as a [...]
