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Jennifer Lopez And Whatshisface To Divorce: Private Photos
JENNIFER Lopez and non-smiling Marc Anthony are to divorce. They pop out to Oyez Straker and pump out the formula statement:
“We have decided to end our marriage. “his was a very difficult decision. We have come to an amicable conclusion on all matters. It is a painful time for all involved and we appreciate the respect of our privacy at this time.“
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Posted: 15th, July 2011 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts | Comment
Why Did Police Ignore Levi Bellfield’s Phone But ‘Let’ Murdoch Watch Milly Dowler’s Dad?
RUPERT Murdoch has apologised to the parents of Milly Dowler. No. Not for failing to hack Levi Bellfield’s phone – he murdered the child – but for employing a man who allegedly hacked into the then missing girl’s mobile phone and deleted messages to make room for new ones – a move that encouraged thoughts of her being alive.
You may recall that when Milly Dowler went missing, police focused some of their energies of her father, the innocent Bob Dowler.
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Ashley Cole Services Cheryl In The Bath (Photos)
CHERLY Cole and Chelsea footballer Ashley Cole are back together. The nation sweetheart’s search for another “Cole” to match her neck tattoo proved futile. George Cole (too old), Ole King Cole (too gay) and Cole Porter (too dead) were not right, or too busy to get with Chezza.
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Posted: 15th, July 2011 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts | Comments (2)
White Austrian Atheist Wears Pasta Strainer As Offical Religious Headgear
NIKO Alm is the Austrian atheist using his time to campaign for the right to wear a pasta strainer as “religious headgear”.
Only people of a faith can wear headgear on driving licences in Austria. So, Mr Alm declared himself a pastafarian, a member of the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster.
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Posted: 14th, July 2011 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True | Comments (2)
Badly Stuffed Animals – Photos Of Nature Manmade
BADLY stuffed animals. Well, they are. What’s your favourite..?
Posted: 13th, July 2011 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True | Comment (1)
Rebekah Brooks’ Sun, David Cameron And Ed Balls Feasted Off Baby P For Money And Votes
WHAT news of Rebekah Brooks? Well, depsite of the News of The World’s stance on John Terry (SACK THE LEADER!) and the Sun’s attitude toward’s Sharon Shoemsith (SACK THE LEADER!), the boss remains in her job.
With great timing, then, the Sun has been forced to pay copensation to Sylvia Henry, a social workers it hounded out of a job as the furore over the death of Baby P (Peter Connelly) hit the news cycle. The Sun invited its readers to sing a petition demanding Henry and other Haringey social workers be sacked. The Sun amassed 1.5m signatures for its petition, which was delivered to Downing Street.
The petition stated:
“I believe that ALL the social workers involved in the case of baby P, including Sharon Shoesmith, Maria Ward, Sylvia Henry and Gillie Christou should be sacked and never allowed to work with vulnerable children again….
The Sun cared. It cared enough to stick its logo on Baby P’s grave and keep a vigil for other caring types carrying balloons and teddies.
Ed Balls and David Cameron both waded into the debate – presenting themselves as caring dads and so blessed with a sense of right and wrong. They both sucked up to the Sun.
Cameron actually wrote an open letter in the Sun:
His face seems so familiar now, but it is still incredibly moving. More than 1.3million signed The Sun Baby P petition, each name a cry for justice. Yesterday, those cries were answered. The sackings, suspensions, resignations were long overdue.
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The Most Useless Anti-Drugs Adverts Ever (How To Get Paid For Sex)
ANTI-drugs adverts are useless. At best they scare the already scared into not taking the drugs they would not take anyhow. At worse, they make the drugs look pretty damn good. Anyone already on drugs is too monged out on the sofa like a prolapsed goose or searching the intent for legal highs and drugs the anti-drugs campaigners haven’t even thought about campaigning against yet. Here are the worst anti-drugs adverts ever:
Dod you get paid every time you have sex? With meth – you can!
Posted: 11th, July 2011 | In: Key Posts, The Consumer | Comment
Gordon Brown Wakes From Rebekah Brook’s Slumber Party To Seek Revenge Over Rupert Murdoch’s Times, Sky And Sun
HAVING been able to legitimise buying up millions of copies of the News of The World, Guardian readers now learn that Gordon Brown fears his voicemail was hacked by News International workers. They allegedly accessed his bank account and his family’s medical records.
The key findings are:
• Scotland Yard has discovered references to both Brown and his wife, Sarah, in paperwork seized from Glenn Mulcaire, the private investigator who specialised in phone hacking for the News of the World;
• Abbey National bank found evidence suggesting that a “blagger” acting for the Sunday Times on six occasions posed as Brown and gained details from his account;
• Brown’s London lawyers, Allen & Overy, were tricked into handing over details from his file by a conman working for the Sunday Times;
• Details from his infant son’s medical records were obtained by the Sun, who published a story about the child’s serious illness.
The News of The World is dead. Rupert Murdoch’s Sun and Times are now in the firing line. It’s stinky suff. And 2e only hope that Brown gets his revenge, sorry, justice:
Senior Labour figures also strongly suspect that a news organisation broke the law to obtain the emails that led to the resignation in April 2009 of Brown’s close aide Damian McBride. The emails, which disclosed a scheme to smear Tory MPs, had been exchanged between McBride and a Labour party activist, Derek Draper. The Labour figures believe that the emails were hacked from Draper’s computer and that their contents were then sent to the political blogger Guido Fawkes, whose stories were then followed by Fleet Street.
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Posted: 11th, July 2011 | In: Key Posts, Politicians | Comment (1)
Creepy Taylor Momsen Gets Women To Strip Off While She Gyrates On Stage (Video And Photos)
THERE are people in this world who just can’t get enough attention. They crave it so much that they’re prepared to fling away their dignity just so we take some notice of them. However, in the case of Taylor Momsen – star of Gossip Girl and now treading the sticky floors of various gig pits with The Pretty Reckless – she’s prepared to lose everyone else’s dignity too.
Momsen – who we must remember is a mere SEVENTEEN years old – is rather fond of getting her boobs out in an attempt to shock all concerned. At one show, she got her rack out while her mum was stood in the front row. Was mother dearest egging her on? Seeing as Momsen was a child-star (she was in The Grinch and was very nearly chosen for the lead role in Hannah Montana), there’s a strong chance she’s the kind of pushy mother who will do anything to have fame, vicariously.
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Posted: 11th, July 2011 | In: Key Posts, Music | Comment (1)
Paul McMullen: The News Of The World Hack And His Pen (How Long Before He Starts Talking To It?)
PAUL McMullen is doing the rounds on the telly. He’s the former News of The World executive caught out by Hugh Grant.
On the telly, McMullen is a terrible talker. He’s nervy. He’s twitchy. He has one beige suit and a pen. He often appears with his tie lowered and top button undone. He looks like an extra from an old Eddie Shoestring episode. And there’s the McMullen pen. Is it a prop? Is he taking shorthand notes as he talks? Are we watching the birth of a brand and the rebirth of the Biro? Or is he auditioning for the lead role in The Beaver 2, replacing Mel Gibson and his rodent with a blue propelling Parker?
How long before McMullen starts talking to his pen – and his pen starts to reply?
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Posted: 11th, July 2011 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comments (10)
John Terry Gets Rebekah Brooks The Sack From Murdoch’s Empire?
IF Sharon Shoesmith can’t force Rebekah Brooks quit her big job at News International maybe Chelsea footballer John Terry can. This was what the NoTW said about his toxic time as captain of England on January 30, 2010. The editorial was headlined:
JT’s ROLE IS UNTENABLE:
You might care to play around with the words a little. This is The Original text. In the second version we play around with few words:
JOHN TERRY’S role as England captain is untenable. He has become a figure of vilification or ridicule. Or both. A great honour has been brought into grave disrepute…
Forget, for just a moment, this latest sordid episode…
Scandal after scandal…
It beggars belief…
If you think the prestigious role does not bring extra financial reward, you’re naive…
But no one has embraced the opportunity with such tasteless zeal as Terry…
Terry will have been shocked by the judge’s declarations because he has got himself into a position where he believes no one can say no…
Perhaps he is not alone in being a footballer who thinks mass hero-worship and astronomic wages make the normal rules of society non-applicable…
But if Terry has even a sliver of leadership quality off the pitch, he should stand down as captain. If he possesses an ounce of responsibility, he should resign, knowing he has brought dishonour to his office.
The trust of one fellow England player has been shattered. The respect of many others has probably disappeared…
Players can play alongside people they don’t respect. It’s happened a million times. But they can’t be led by them, guided by them. And who knows what other stories are waiting to break about an England captain who is a magnet for negative publicity?
VERSION 2 – new words added in italics for fun:
Rebekah Brooks’ role as News Corps’ England captain is untenable. She has become a figure of vilification or ridicule. Or both. A great honour has been brought into grave disrepute…
Forget, for just a moment, this latest sordid episode…
Scandal after scandal…
It beggars belief…
If you think the prestigious role does not bring extra financial reward, you’re naive…
But no one has embraced the opportunity with such tasteless zeal as Brooks…
Brooks will have been shocked by the judge’s declarations because he has got himself into a position where he believes no one can say no…
Perhaps she is not alone in being a fat cat who thinks mass hero-worship and astronomic wages make the normal rules of society non-applicable…
But if Brooks has even a sliver of leadership quality off the pitch, he should stand down as captain. If she possesses an ounce of responsibility, she should resign, knowing she has brought dishonour to his office.
The trust of one fellow journalist has been shattered. The respect of many others has probably disappeared…
Journalists can play alongside people they don’t respect. It’s happened a million times. But they can’t be led by them, guided by them. And who knows what other stories are waiting to break about a News International captain who is a magnet for negative publicity?
Of course, Terry lost the England captaincy – and now he has it back. Innocent Rebekah Brooks just needs a break. Maybe… a baby might be on the way…?
Posted: 10th, July 2011 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comments (4)
Newspaper Headlines – The Greatest Ever (Funny, Weird And Filthy)
LIKE you, Anorak loves newspapers. The world wide web is terrific, too, but Google, Bing, Twitter, Facebook and the like have forced writers to adapt language to fit the technology. The pun carries little weight with search engines and robots hunting for key words to place the story in a category. This is lamentable. One day, when newspapers have died out, a part of the English language will have gone with it.
One key thing when writing is to try an inject wit in what you do. Newspapers are in the business of entertaining their readers. And everyone loves a joke.
We’ve compiled a gallery of some of our favourite newspaper headlines. There are lots – but each one will raise a smile – whether it be the Sun’s simple tribute to Jeremy Beadle (“Beadles’ Not About”); the accidental Express asking “Can Dec anally match Ant?”; the New York Post’s prosaic “Not So Fast You Greedy Bastards”; the Daily Record’s poetic “I kicked burning terrorist so hard in balls I tore tendon in my foot”; and the simple, ugly, brutal and jingoistic “GOTCHA”.
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Posted: 10th, July 2011 | In: Key Posts, The Consumer | Comment
Times Exec Blames MumsNet For Bringing Down News of the World – You Couldn’t Make It Up
The Executive Editor of the Times blamed blogging middle-class mothers for the death of The News of The World in an angry interview on Channel4 News this evening.
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Posted: 9th, July 2011 | In: Key Posts, Technology | Comments (6)
Sun Buries Itself, David Cameron And Ed Miliband In Drugs Story: Meet Rupert Murdoch’s Tom Baldwin
THE Sun’s headline about former News of The World editor Andy Coulson is not “Former News Of The World editor arrested over hacking claims while working for Rupert Murdoch”. No. The Sun’s headline is:
“David Cameron’s former aide quizzed over hacking claims”
The Sun’s focus is on Cameron and not on its sister organ. Why? Well, self-preservation, cynicism, pragmatism and maybe – just maybe – the Sun flexing its muscles. As the Independent puts the same news:
Cameron forced to cut Murdoch and his empire loose as he tries to deflect public anger about failure to tackle the phone-hacking scandal…
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Posted: 9th, July 2011 | In: Key Posts, Politicians | Comments (9)
Jerry Spring Pays $1million To Wrangle Casey Anthony And Family Into Unmissable Telly
CASEY Anthony and her family (mum Cindy, dad George and brother Lee) have been offered $1million to go on the telly for one whole hour and cash in on their celebrity.
Casey has been found not guilty of murdering her daughter Caylee. Given that on the stand Casey accused her dad of sexually abusing her – a claim he denieed – and Casey’s mother was “accused of lying on the witness stand to protect her daughter, claiming that she conducted a computer search for chloroform, not Casey. But Cindy’s work records showed she was at work when the searches were made from a home computer” – the show will be unmissable.
Only TV can do this. TV is the fulcrum for debate. The Internet is huge. But most of it is electronic cannabis – a drug to cosy you up and dull the senses. TV can make you shout at it. TV can make you care for things you never thought much about. The little magic box can enlarge your field of vision.
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Posted: 8th, July 2011 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comment (1)
Rebekah Brooks tells NOTW Journos she’s not having a good time: EXCLUSIVE, BREAKING
REBEKAH Brooks revealed she isn’t having a great time in her on-the-burning-bridge speech to News of The World staffers this afternoon at 4pm, where she explained the decision to close the paper and kill 160 jobs.
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Posted: 8th, July 2011 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comments (2)
Jennifer Aniston In Trouble For Gay Slur: Because Homophobia Is Good Box Office Unlike Racism
UH-OH! Jennifer Aniston is in a bit of trouble at the moment. No, it’s nothing to do with those thousands of episodes of Friends where she nearly had the whole world’s eye out thanks to a lack of bra under her vest, but rather, she’s said a homophobic slur.
Naturally, she’s isn’t some raging gay-basher, but rather, it is something she’s said in character.
Aniston plays a seductive dentist (sigh) called Dr Julia Harris in the new film, Horrible Bosses. In it, she tells her dental assistant:
“You’re starting to sound like a little faggot there, Dale.”
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Posted: 8th, July 2011 | In: Film, Key Posts | Comments (4)
Andy Coulson ‘Jailed’ In Five-Star Holiday Camp Says News Of The World: Pregnant Brooks Gets Cushy Ride
IS Andy Coulson going to jail? Top media analysts (former NoTW hacks) say that Rupert Murdoch’s old editor and David Cameron’s former spin doctor has nothing to worry about. If there is one thing we have learnt from the News of The World it is that prisons are cushy places – like five-star hotels and holiday camps. He might even be able to get access to tabloid newspapers and carry on his vile empire.
Here’s what they say in The News of The (Prison) Screws:
Getting knocked-up means a soft cell for cons – Killers and drug dealers allowed to mingle with public *
Is Rebekah Brooks pregnant yet?
A FEMALE jail officer has been suspended after being accused of enjoying a no-holds-barred romp with a convict. The screw is under investigation amid claims that she sneaked away for a steamy clinch with the lag. Why are cons getting Viagra for home visits? WHAT HAPPENED TO PAYING FOR YOUR CRIMES? *
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Queensland State of Origin Fan Wees On Her Seat: Australian Rugby League Welcomes The Ladies (Video)
TO Australia, where a female rugby league fan can’t stand to leave her seat at Brisbane’s Suncorp Stadium in Brisbane for even a moment. Darren Lockyer, captain of the Queensland State of Origin team, is saying goodbye to his people. This will be the last time he’ll be wearing the noble maroon shirt.
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Posted: 8th, July 2011 | In: Key Posts, Sports | Comments (3)
SOS: The Sun On Sunday Should Not Save Murdoch From The Cops
THE end of the News of the World: let me savour those beautiful words. Allow me to roll those delicious vowels and consonants over my tongue. Never did I imagine Madame Arcati would outlive the corrupt farrago that became the Screws. Of course, the Sun on Sunday, or some such, will serve as replacement, though its SOS acronym is perhaps too ironic to prevail.
Rupert Murdoch is lauded for his dark genius in pressing the nuclear option and distracting us for a few seconds as we mouth silent shock-horrors and wonder what will happen to Carole Malone and her ‘hell’ tropes. This is not genius but guile, though I must admit he caught me and the rest on the hop.
Actually his true genius is more subtle, entirely mercurial and located in an omission. We debate the heinousness of his past editors and journalists without ever entertaining the idea that he, Murdoch himself, should be arrested, tried, and if convicted, jailed. Every line of police inquiry should not end just at the point of executive control of corruption – such as with the Andy Coulsons or Rebecca Brookses – but should journey on to the fount, the inspiration – to the baby factory of journalistic nightmare. To Rupert.
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Posted: 8th, July 2011 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comment (1)
Rebekha Brooks Is Innocent: It’s The Murdoch Empire, The Police And GCHQ Wot Done It
I HATE to harp on about it here but Rebekah Brooks is not responsible for her actions while editor of The News of World. She was and still is an employee of the Murdoch Empire.
She is not responsible for her actions because she could, legitimately, claim job insanity. Those actions were driven by the intense need to prove she was the best at her job and from the same hard-bitten mould as a very long line of NoW editors.
Forget the Dog Eat Dog media feeding frenzy which will first grow and as usual fade away. Where she will be found wanting is the stupidity of allowing hard-pressed journalists, who is turn worked for her, to use outsiders to gather the information. That will be her Nemesis. Murdoch will order her dismissal because she was caught out.
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Posted: 8th, July 2011 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comments (8)
Why The BBC And The Guardian Are Gunning For Murdoch And The Sun: That News Of The World Ethos Is Not Dead Yet
THE News of The World is dead. The BBC’s 10 o’ clock news leads with the story. The BBC’s Question Time leads with the story. The media loves talking about the media more than anything. It’s all about access, you see, and rivalries. Rupert Murdoch’s Sky rivals the BBC’s news. The BBC has publishes no newspaper but it does have close links with the Guardian. Murdoch has the powerful Sun. The Guardian went for Murdoch on the phone hacking scandal and – GOTCHA! – they got him. Job done? Not quite.
We told you not to be shocked.
Autonomous Minds takes a view:
THE churnalists are up in arms. The carefully constructed media narrative has it that the News of the World, and by extension the entire Rupert Murdoch empire, has singlehandedly ruined the reputation of journalism.
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Posted: 7th, July 2011 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comments (22)
Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows: Part 2 Premiere Photos: Emma Watson’s Golden Egg
THURSDAY night in drizzly London and time for the Premiere of Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows: Part 2. This the last outing in the Potter roles for Rupert Grint (sure to be heralded as the New Dennis Waterman), Emma Watson and Daniel Radcliffe. For some reason JK Rowling came dressed as camellia bush. You have expected the feathered Watson to sit beneath her mistress’s skirts and crack out an egg. (There’s your prequel, JK. Call me – I have ideas…)
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The Greatest Tabloid Headlines Ever: A Gallery Born Of Love
THE News of The World is dead. Some will rejoice. But it is a shame. At their best tabloids have the power to hit the mark like no other form of media. Anorak thinks the time ripe to look at the greatest tabloid headlines ever:
Posted: 7th, July 2011 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comments (7)
The News Of The World Is Closing – This Sunday’s Edition To Be Last Ever (Randy Vicars Rejoice)
THE News of the World is closing this Sunday. This will best the last one. Rutting vicars, priapic footballers, sex-up nuns and reality TV-to-porn stars rejoice!Also rejoice mums and dads of murdered children and dead soldiers.
Now. Only the Daily Mail left to go…
PS – look out for the Sun going seven days a week.
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Posted: 7th, July 2011 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comments (3)
