Is the Mirror Going Down the Express Way?
The ailing* Daily Mirror has a noble history, but in the last decade or so it has lost its way terribly. Publishing fake pictures of British soldiers in Iraq committing "outrages" and the editor and the financial reporters involved in a share ramping scandal at the expense of readers.The Mirror does a lot of Cameron bashing. Kevin Maguire, political editor, writes Beano-like articles with references to Lord Snooty and druggie Dave, the Bambi-killing toff. All good knock about stuff (though Guido does wonder if this means he patronisingly thinks Mirror buyers have the reading age of a Beano reader?)
The story last week that Samantha Cameron was guilty of "snubbing a charity trying to stop mothers dying in childbirth... because she was too busy with her job... at posh stationer Smythson" struck Guido as pretty low.
The Daily Express had to pay £500,000 to the parents of Madeleine McCann after admitting just making up stories. The Mirror does seem to be going down the same path with this kind of story. It is one thing to follow Dave about on his bike and root through his bins for disposable nappies, to see if his words match his deeds, that is just about defensible. This was just a completely manufactured story to paint Samantha Cameron in a bad light.
*Circulation down year after year for years, it now has a circulation nearly half that of The Sun.
66 comments:
How dare you insult the Beano. It has a much higher level of integrity, accuracy and social awareness than the Mirror.
Is this The Mirror stirring the shit though? SPiers Morganounds to me that they're just reporting bleatings from the Labour Party.
Re ' . . route through his bins . . ' : I suggest you mean 'root' - what pigs do. OED has 'v.2 from 'wroot' [a fine anglo-saxon word] 1.c. dial. and colloq. To poke about, rummage; to pry or poke into a thing; to lounge or idle about, etc. Also const. about, around.' Alternatively, 'rootle'.
How can you compare the two issues,. One claimed one was a murderer. Anyway sue if it is a lie.
Oops. 'SPiers Morganounds to me' should read 'Sounds to me'. That's the effect a face full of Piers's urine has on your typing.
I agree. To attempt to smear the Cameron's with the notion that Dave is a potential Prime Minister, is beneath contempt of the Great British public.
Dave should be paid £500,000 and the Daily Mirror closed down.
Fucking traitors.
Gary
But who would believe what the Mirror said anyway? - All the reports are so short so as not to overload its readers! - If only Mrs C would sue them for a million or two and give it to charity.
I so hope the Mirror group go bust, communist cunts.
Clegg i/v with Morgan in the Times is better
http://timesonline.typepad.com/politics/2008/03/nick-clegg-talk.html
The once-great Mirror is now too contaminated to dispose of in landfill sites. It must be handled only by men with full body suits and breathing apparatus.
As for the Express, it's running a front page anti-hoodie campaign, "Ban the hood for good". Even its moronic petty bourgeois readers couldn't stomach that level of insanity - the comments section is fizzing.
A previous neighbour used to work for the Mirror and his father used to own it a long time ago. They were as left wing as Norman Tebbit. They were just supplying the market for left wing dribble
I wonder what the Mirror (and Grauniad)-reading intelligentsia will make of this:
Britain's economy and public services are being put at risk by the failure of the Government to keep track of the number of immigrants, a House of Lords report will warn tomorrow.
The Lords found that the data was based on small, outdated surveys described repeatedly in the report as "seriously inadequate", "intrinsically unsatisfactory", "unreliable" and "incomplete".
The committee will conclude that "the economic benefits of net immigration to the resident population are small and close to zero in the long run". It also questions whether the introduction of a new points-based system for immigration will improve the situation.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/03/31/nmigrants131.xml
If you want a laugh go to the dull blogs attached to the Telegraph. Kevin Maguire posts on these blogs under the pseudonym "Hazel Tree", with the same editorial standard as the mirror!
Has Guido got a crush on Sam Cameron? Far as I can see the story about her not showing up to the event was 100 per cent accurate - totally different from the Express nonsense about the McCanns.
Give the papers some stick by all means, but pick the right story to do it on...
Mrs Cameron missed a trick.
She should have claimed that she could not attend the lunch because she was having a private meeting with sexually abused HIV positive Iraqi land-mine victims and could not possibly cancel at the last minute. It would not be fair to neglect these poor victims of the War On Terror, whose plight has largely gone unnoticed by the public.
She could also have claimed that it would have been inappropriate for her to attend this feelgood luncheon with the First Ladies. She is only the wife of the Leader of the Opposition and therefore does not deserve to be in the presence of such important (and highly fragrant) women.
Et voila! An excuse that is both modest and sanctimonious.
In some ways, Dave should take it as a compliment. If that is the best the Mirror can come up with, then they're clearly rattled and know that if Gordon the Bogeyman isn't the producing the goods then they have to try an blight the opposition as best they can.
Pity the poor Mirror, imagine a traditional allegiance forcing you to cheer on Snot-gobbler & his epsilon-minus crew.
The picture of him preparing to kiss Mme Sarkozy was sick-bag stuff. Just imagine him leaving behind a green lipstick smudge.
Guido my dear chap, i thought that EVERYONE knew that there only two things in the mirror that you could believe, the date and the price.
the mirror dont have tits right so tho i dont like camaron cos he is a toff and i is working class man, you try signing on every two weeks, it aint easy man, got to use a pen and everthing well hard it is, joined up writing too! i will buy the sun instead cos it has big tits on page 3 and i love me tits, i do, i love me tits! know what a mean. Big shout out to the guido posse,fuckin big up respect to ye all!
The Mirror is a complete and utter pile of steaming shite. Actually, correct that, at least you can convert shite to compost, so it has some uses. The Mirror has none.
From a once great campaigning paper it has turned into a tawdry arse-wipe of a rag, with a bunch of hack writers suffering from 1970s class envy and patronising its readers so that it can suck up to The Snotgobbler and his marxist cronies.
But a word of warning: Murdoch - a more shrewd businessman than anyone who has ever owned the Mirror - saw the writing on the wall and switched sides to back Blair, who subsequently won.
Murdoch is a man who likes winners.
A shrewd move and I predict one which he will repeat in favour of Cameron.
But my guess is that The Mirror will continue to back a lame horse, a horse that may even be pulled from the race and carted off the the knacker's yard...with the Mirror's nose still firmly wedged up it's scraggy old arse.
'They were as left wing as Norman Tebbit. They were just supplying the market for left wing dribble'
Interesting point. I remember first seeing Maguire several years back on some late-night Andrew Neil show and thinking him reasonably objective and sensible for a northern Labour-supporting twat. I was actually quite shocked when I read his puerile, moronic witterings for The Mirror - perhaps just pandering to the world view of the dregs, crims, retards and inebriates who compose The Mirror's readership.
Nice to see that our friend Lembit Opik is now writing for the Daily Sport for the princely sum of £5k. He told the Western Mail this morning that he had now declared the money he had earned from Luther Pendragon. What is curious is that Mike Granatt a partner in Luther Pendragon said that Opik was paid in cash when the astronmer royal said that he was paid by cheque. Mind you it was over 3 years ago and he only remembered after the PR Week story.What is also curious is that in the members register of March 25 which is the latest there is still no mention of the Luther Pendragon money. I suppose writing for the Daily Sport Opik has once again become distracted by the female form.
I can't stand Sarah Brown, I really can't. She's always bleating on in the papers about some do-good issue. She fits the whole Cherie Blair "I want to be First Lady" schtick.
But Sarah Brown is far less conspicuous than old letterbox-chops ever was. And that makes her far more dangerous.
Having followed the link to the Mirror article had a little wander around its forum pages. See what the great unwashed hold dear to their hearts. You can actually watch the Mirror core readership slipping away there. Not a lot of joined up thinking & a few 'coffee coloured people by the score' advocates on day release from the Guardian but there's this constant rumble of discontent. Most directed straight at the Labour Government & in direct contrast to Mirror content. Shouldn't think many of them give a flying f**k about third world birth fatalities or who Samantha Cameron is unless she's got big tits. Their worries are crime, immigration & the fubar state of the country.
OK, it's not a representative sample. It's only the Mirror readers who've discovered they've got opposable thumbs but its symptomatic.
Does it matter what that rag - "The Daily Mirror" prints. I suspect that anyone actually buying or reading it is very unlikely to have their views changed enough to vote Conservative anyway and there's nothing a "socialist" hack does better than parade the chip they all have on their shoulders irrespective of whether they've had a privileged upbringing or not.
Any attack by "The Mirror" and Maguire should be taken as a sign that they realise Cameron will be elected PM at the next election. They must be in a real "funk". It's all rather like Labourhome who can't understand where its all gone wrong for them. Well for a start allowing themselves to be saddled with Gordon as leader might go some way to providing an answer for them
The BBC seems to have already started edging its bets with Mark Thompson meeting Cameron in February to try and effect a rapprochment of sorts.
The venom is likely to increase the nearer it gets to an election but to echo one of Labour's finest - "So what".
Labour's going down and they and their supporters in the media know it
Ti utter cretinous mongs like that fat cunt Terry Kelly and Cunty Monkey Hilton...does it matter that it is made up?
anon 4:25
'But Sarah Brown is far less conspicuous than old letterbox-chops ever was. And that makes her far more dangerous'
Please sir, if your going to talk about me please spell my mane correctly.
Simon Brown wife of Gordon
The editorial staff at The Daily Mirror are the kind of males who would engage in acts of carnal congress with their own maternal parents. And without the aid of any prophylactic device.
dregs, crims, retards and inebriates who compose The Mirror's readership.
Can't be a coincidence that long term dole claimant Gary Elsby, AND arch thicko D.E.S. have shown their ugly boats on this thread.
Didn't Mrs B's business enterprise go belly up, whereas Mrs C is acknowledged as contributing mightily to Smythsons' profits?
in addition to is last post:
They've also got a photo of Sarah Brown on the Mirror site http://images.mirror.co.uk/upl/m3/mar2008/9/6/F4800F97-A683-5D22-FC324F7243E68C21.jpg
Mr Snotgobbler was quite correct on a thread last week. She does look like a Kwikfit tyre fitter. Come to think of it she could be the one who fitted a couple of remoulds to the front of my van last year. Didn't catch his name though.
Anonymous at 2.34pm - Is this true? Is Hazel Tree really Kevin Maguire? If so, how fabulous. It explains so much, including why the poster is an utter c*nt with no grasp of English grammar. I don't suppose you happen to know who 'david dee' is as well do you?
Kevin Maguire posts on these blogs under the pseudonym "Hazel Tree", with the same editorial standard as the mirror!
Interesting!!!
Going to check this out.
The Mirror - a newspaper - that's a joke. Even trolls like Elsby don't read the shit.
As for Toilets opinion, lets face facts, he wouldn't get a job reporting in any other rag, national or local.
Anonymous 4:25 says
"But Sarah Brown is far less conspicuous than old letterbox-chops ever was."
I too can't stand Sarah Brown, I really can't. But I can't agree with that quote. Inconspicuous? The product of two dozen Hollands pies (a pound and a half of cows arse,gristle and tubes and two pounds of lardy pastry) a day - inconspicous like Laurence Delaglio! And who could fail to notice her when she always standing next to the biggest cunt in sight?
Welcome back Gazza from Stoke.
Cameron for PM,Gazza. Get used to it.Bet you your first giro after next General Election that Dave will be PM.
Bhownaggree where the fuck are you. Gazza needs backup. Your fucking hero Gordon the Moron is about to be removed by the men in white coats. His dose of trimipramine has reacted with the red wine he consumed at a recent dinner when he could not find his way to the table.
"Gary Elsby stoke on trent"
A slow learner and Gordon fan whose handle works out this way when turned into an anagram.
'Glory Be! Keen snotty star.'
Remind you of anybody you pointless wanker?
There is something quite unhealthy about little Kevin's obsession with Cameron.
If Kevin does post under the name Hazel Tree, then is Kevin also Julie Mccaffrey who wrote a piece in the Mirror marvelling at the firmness and tautness of Cameron's bum?
o/t i know but i had to post this.harmon again after lots of legal fees....http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=550808&in_page_id=1770&ct=5
i am a man and a barmaid recently said to me 'thanks love'.i am so shocked and offended and my human rights have benn ravaged......anyone got harmons number so that i can prosecute?
now what did it say in 1984 about 'controlling the language'?
bofl
Its a great relief to discover that Samantha Cameron isn't signing up to travel the world at the expense of various dodgy charidees. She's not the publicity-seeking Cherie Blair. Neither is she Mrs Wotsiname Brown who's turning out to be a Cherie wannabe. Samantha's got more class than that.
FFS The McCann couple are official suspects into their eldest daughter's disappearance (DNA and circumstantial evidence) at best they left their 3 children all alone in an unlocked foreign apartment, while they went out on the piss.
Just what has Mrs. Dave done that is so bad?
I hear the Mirror printed a story about Hague's dad, alleging he said blacks should go back to their own countries. When doorstepped by a hack, Hague senior told him to "fuck off!"
Sounds a good bloke to me.
And I reckon the Mirror readers would think so too.
Don't worry too much about the Mirror, chaps. Its knuckle-dragging, lobotomised readers cannot read whole sentences unless they contain "Jade" and "Goody".
Which brigs me to her noo website. Get a load of this
Hello and welcome to my website. I've been told this interweb thing is really important now so I thought I'd better give it a go. Anyway, everything here has been written by me, well almost, cos I did get someone to check my spelling and grammar.
I've got my photo album to see what I've been up to, a shop where you can buy my stuff, and I'm even considering letting my mum Jackiey have her say as well.
I've also been told I should do a blog, whatever that is.
There we have it. The supreme icon of 11 years of New Labour rule. Proud to be British, eh?
While the Mirror disappears up its well-worn arse, The Sun remains the world's finest newspaper. Perhaps not so much a newspaper as an art form.
Dear Gary Elsby from Stoke.
His arguments are becoming thinner and thinner by the week. Gary is suffering from a kind of anorexia of the intellect.
His arguments now border on: "Yeah! So what if Labour DID go to war based on lies? So what if Labour IS raising the tax on the poor? So what if Labour DID raid pensioner's pension funds? So what if Labour IS raising the tax on the sick, especially those with complicated, long-term health problems? I am sure that if the Tories were in power they'd have done the same, too! And they'd have done worse! I remember my dear old Dad telling me that his Dad told him that in 1923 a Tory MP's car splashed him with mud. So as a result, we always vote Labour here in our house in Burslem!"
Anyone who doubts the idea of the tax on the sick, what, then, are prescription charges? Anyone who has a condition requiring four different medicines to control (high blood pressure and heart condition for example) will pay nearly £30.00 a monthly in prescription charges, as you pay for each drug, not each prescription paper. And who was it who introduced prescription charges, Gary? Was it the Tories? No. It was Labour.
"financial reporters involved a share ramping scandal at the expense of readers"
Come on; you're assuming that Mirror readers buy shares? And that they take the Horror's advice if they do???
kevin mcguire is "hazel tree" thats fantasic news if true, but i still think the posts have a femanine ring ,and the quirky bubbliness that blears has (coupled with expression that love eggs are about to explode when asked a tricky one).
i have found that the daily mirror is the best material for lighting fires and bonfires , it aslo had the double benefit of denying the recycling company the danger of reading it by mistake !!
It matters not what news-papers write. No one is forced to pay for them, still less read them. Still less then that, believe a word of it.
What matters is there is NO LIBERTARIAN newspapers alternative at all. No libertarian broadcast media either, whatsoever.
The best we ever get is the occasional libertarian type thinking in an editorial or two. If we read every newspaper every day for a month.
When was the last time a news-paper confronted an issue and did not ask or demand the government for illiberal action?
When was the last time the simple rule of taking personal responsibility for your own actions , put forward as even an option, by the BBC?
All we need is enforced common law to protect us. The right to prosper without being taxed or legislated out of any incentive to do so. An educator that educates and a health provider that provides health.
Its not rocket science. We know how to do these things, and our media and our political parties know we do.
There is virtually no voice for individual liberty outside the internet.
Ask yourselves why?
I did and came to the conclusion that the entire broadcast and dead tree media. Are ALL following the same FASCIST agenda, in every important respect, without exception.
Left and so called right wing media are just two cheeks of the same socialist fascist establishment backside. The likes of Livingstone and Galloway provide the evil nonsensical toxic shit, that flows from between them.
IMO
This truly massive over fed establishment bottom is comfortably at home sitting on our face.
You really don't want me to tell you where Galloway's and Livingstone's daily product is going down.
Atlas shrugged, and felt not a little sick.
Re Gary Elsby, Stoke's finest swirling turd, M person of no fixed political abode said.
"His arguments are becoming thinner and thinner by the week."
Erm, what arguments might they be? Our Gary has limited time between waiting for the Giro, cashing it, and pissing it up against the wall, as he then has to apply on one of the gay snot-gobbler's forms for the additional "I've pissed the last lot away; help" forms, and they are reely, reely 'ard for a pissed educationally sub-normal product of the great Nu-Liebour edukayshun sistim, innit.
Pull the chain again someone, flush the cunt.
4:38 PM
Sarah's clearly going to be indispensable when the wheels come of this government then.
11:06 PM
Love the picture of baby Jade and the midwife.
Caption reads:
I was born 5th June 1981 Jade Cerissa Lorraine Goody (what was my mum thinking giving me middle names like that) in Bermondsey, south London. You can see me here with the mid wife, picture of innocence, little did she know what a nightmare I'd be.
Two small corrections Jade, darling:
1. What was your mum thinking giving birth to you.
2. If the midwife had been able to foresee the future she would likely have strangled you on the fucking spot, dear. I daresay the poor woman now probably lives wracked with permanent guilt over her part in the creation of the Beast of Bermondsey, and the unrelenting rise of Goodyism. And I doubt whether she dares leave the house for fear of being recognised and instantly stoned to death by a frothing angry mob.
xxx
12:52 AM
i found it excellent for safely disposing of a big fat dead rat that emerged the other day from one of our hotel toilet pans before being brutally battered to death with a bogbrush by Griselda our busty polish chambermaid.
and dont forget they fabricated the arthur c clarke story
No Fixed Abode says "Anyone who has a condition requiring four different medicines to control (high blood pressure and heart condition for example) will pay nearly £30.00 a monthly in prescription charges, as you pay for each drug, not each prescription paper".
Sorry old son. Anyone on permanent medication can buy a season ticket which costs about £100 a year. It works out that you're quids-in if you need two or more items a month.
That's for those who pay full price for prescriptions. Others get them free anyway - pensioners, kids, foreigners, Mirror readers...
Where as Mr Stanislav gone, I want his opinion on this matter. I also need my shithouse unblocking and I know he is cheap4cash.
Carrying The Mirror on the tube is a bit like carrying your work papers in a Lidl bag. Why not just tatoo "Loser" on your forehead?
The thing is that much of the media can be so predictable anyway. In my own recent 'encounter' with the media I was accorded much the same style of treatment in some quarters (including the Mirror), but I was expecting it so was always several steps ahead of the horde -- over 80 'phone calls from reporters et al, by the way.
Dirty tricks such as putting a photographer in a car just down the road from my house, so that I could be caught on camera when I emerged in a multi-shot sequence from which the 'meanest' looking one could be selected -- that sort of thing.
Now that claim that I 'may be forced to leave the country' when all I wrote was a polite response to a kind comment on my 'blog to 'come to Oz'.
Yes, they're trash, with their own agenda which has nothing to do with truth; but at least some of us already knew that and are never surprised. Indeed, I smiled to myself many times during the last week...
Yesterday they wheeled out Babs Follett to justify the Further Annoyance of People Act. Apparently this blog is going to be made illegal because it is impolite about MPs.
A look at Bab's Wiki shows that she had to have four goes at getting married before finally battening her sucky lips on to a fool with more money than eyesight. She has never earned a penny on the open market; all her paying jobs have been on the public tit in one form or another, except if you count the meejah stuff where she gets paid for pontificating about...people in the public sector.
Compared to Babs, Jade Goody is an icon of personal empowerment because at least she is selling herself direct to the public with only a few intervening publicists to help her in open cry. If you want someone with the slightest idea of what it means to live amongst the tabloid-licking classes or to come up through our state education system, then it's Jade you need to talk to. If you don't like Jade, then pin the blame on the donkey which deserves it - Babs is the patronizing bitch who made her.
Don't suppose there is any chance of sending some white folks back where they came from? Wiki says that in Bab's case, that's Jamaica.
I get all my infermatiun frem the Mirror Bruv it is like down with the yoof adn the bruvvers and against the rich wankers like that bloke wat runs the conserva something party nad that other blond cunt wot want to be major of London.
Youse are all cunts wot don't knbow fuck all about anyfing and shuld start bying the mirror, or picking up a copy from the table at the job centre plus like wot me and my bros in da hood of Peckham do when we is signig on.
It's quite amusing to witness Tory thick cunts, flailing around looking a for adrunken fight, when they are the only one in the room.
Take that daft cunt above, 'of no fixed abode' who pays £400 a year to stay alive and is barking at parked cars about it.
Any knob knows of the season ticket that any fucker can have, if it is of a benefit.
Go on.PLEEEEEEZE you Tories, go and take a benefit and become one of the 'benefits culture'.
I'd love that. Scrounging bastards.
In fact, I'd pay your prescriptions, just so you live a while longer under our glorious socialist rule. Mmmmmmmmmmmmmm.
Gary
Where is a good old-fashioned syphonic bowl when you need it, that floating turd Gary Elsby has cashed his Giro, and floated right to the top again.
Soon Elsby, soon.
9.49am
"Jade Goody is an icon of personal empowerment"
SaVatAggen AnIleTwatChew1Mate
9:49 AM
woar, can't help sensing that young Jade appeals your maternal instincts...like you regard yourself as her protege...do you feel a connection, perhaps?
Self-made cow 2:22 pm
Jade comes from Sarf of Wa'er and therefore is not of my tribe, the Tribe of the White Stiletto.
Look again at her name: Jade Cerissa Lorraine. What was her mother thinking of? She was thinking that having sod-all else to give her - if you don't count blood and love - she would give her a glittering, aspirational, exotic name, like wot the nobs do, like wot Mick Jagger did all them years ago: Jade Sheena Jezebel Jagger.
Blessed with neither looks nor intelligence, Jade is wound up like a clockwork doll and set off down the path of providing televisual diversion for people too cowardly and hypocritical to stick up for badger baiting, which was their first choice of programme. She also satisfies the delicious appetites of the Barbara Folletts of the world for looking down their noses at the poor people, the ordinary people, the people whose votes they bloody well need to stay in MP’s perks. Whilst Ken Livingstone targets his ethic minority votes, he stops just long enough to have a swipe at Goody, as if any of her insignificant words could really have any financial effect on London's trade with India. Middle-aged white man decides to kick mixed-race young woman. He got a whole slot on R4 Today to indulge that, with the Today team droogs quivering in anticipation; go on Ken, stick it to her. Only, just remind me, who has the power over the lives of millions of Londoners?
Jade Goody only sells her own arse; by far the bigger swine are those who use their authority and power to sell-out the arses of their own countrymen. If I could see in to the future, I know which I would strangle at birth.
Gary, you are devoid of any intelligence.
You are a disgrace to the Labour Party that my grandparents and others like them, were early members of.
I am not a Tory. But, you stupid little puddle of vomit, you are helping people like me -who are of no fixed political abode- to understand why people are leaving the Labour Party in their hundreds and some of them are actually joining the Tory Party.
Garry, you are terminally thick. And pitiful.
If you are the present of the Labour Party then it has no future.
And I do not pay £400 to stay alive, you washed out Port Vale reject.
Bogeyman, how kind. The government allows you to buy a season ticket to health. Well, whoopie do.
How damn decent of them!
Port Vale? For fucks sake!
That's my friend, Robbies club (linked to the Tory Party) that is heading for the basement.
Mine is going Premier, you thick cunt.
Gary
Don't diss Jade Goody she is a great fuck and a very witty and fun lady to be with (once she has had a few shandies) as me and my 50 mates found out after a great night out wiv her at a very select Essex night club. What a night and what a bird. All you Tory shirtlifters are just jealous that us labour lads can pull the real birds!
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