By tim, on October 16th, 2009 at 5:49 pm I was alerted through twitter earlier on today about Jan Moir’s piece in the Daily Mail (thanks, HelenSarah). Having been so revolted by its loathsome and mean spirited agenda, I was going to write a response on here. However, it made me so sad and angry that another human being (and her editor) thinks that this sort of mean spirited bile is worth publishing that I simply couldn’t write anything coherently at all.
Fortunately, I don’t need to. The Guardian (in the form of Charlie Brooker) has managed to express my distaste of this truly appalling piece of journalism in . . . → Read More: Some days words fail me
By tim, on August 28th, 2009 at 1:32 pm Now that I know the registration mark of my new car, it has to have a name based on it. So it’s going to be called Huffty – despite pleas from the women of the house to name it something a little more Italian.
There’s a heartwarming story in the Crewe and Nantwich Guardian about a MiTo and a bride to be. Either that, or it’s a very cleverly placed piece of advertising for the Mangoletsi dealership and her husband to be’s business The Leather Suite Warehouse.
The stress of waiting for GCSE results is finally over in our house . . . → Read More: Huffty arrives on Tuesday
By tim, on April 13th, 2009 at 5:15 pm I know it’s Bank Holiday Monday, but the Derby Evening Telegraph website really did ought to stop printing non-stories at the top of its pages. Today’s headline screams: Millions of developers’ contributions is unspent in Derby and for once the spin on the story is not that the Council is wasting taxpayer’s money, but that it isn’t spending it fast enough.
It’s not until you get to paragraph 11 (obviously way too far for the usual suspects who have commented on it in shock and outrage that the Council hasn’t spent the money yet) that the inconvenient truth of the . . . → Read More: News is obviously thin in Derby at the moment …
By tim, on April 10th, 2009 at 3:11 pm Our friends in the dead tree press are still trying to write credit crunch stories, but it seems like they’ve had a tough time of it in Derby today. Isn’t it annoying when reality won’t match your editor’s expectations?
Four examples from the DET website today:
Footfall figures up 15% in city centre despite recession “… Footfall has increased 15% in St Peter’s Street, Iron Gate and Sadler Gate in the past year, defying the credit crunch …”
New bar’s the White place at the right time “… The new owners of a Derby bar, which has been closed for . . . → Read More: We'd like to write credit crunch stories … but we can't!
By tim, on January 29th, 2009 at 6:52 pm As of now, the DET website reports 374 hits on “credit crunch” through its search engine. This is up from 361 since the time I wrote my last post just a couple of days ago.
Today the credit crunch is good news for Forbidden Planet, who say its responsible for causing rising sales of comic books on the basis of – well – no evidence whatsoever. A nice piece of free advertising on the back of sloppy journalists – well done to the manager, Simon Heldreich.
However, its bad news for Janet Jackson – who says that the nasty old . . . → Read More: More Credit Crunch Silliness
By tim, on January 27th, 2009 at 11:33 pm The Derby Evening Telegraph website reported today that Severn Trent were warning their shareholders that revenues could be up to £25m lower because people and businesses were using less water “due to the credit crunch“. It seems to me that just about every piece of news is currently being linked back to the credit crunch, regardless of justification. Perhaps its because PR departments have realised that the best way of getting a journalist’s attention at the moment is to spin the story around the credit crunch, even if it’s not strictly justified. Anyway, a quick search of the DET website . . . → Read More: Spinning the Credit Crunch
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