Eating disorders
This article: ‘Shocking figures reveal one in three hospital admissions for eating disorders are children’ is currently buried at the bottom of the Mail website. To the right of it are the normal too...
View ArticleMailbait, perversion and hypocrisy
The Daily Mail has a worrying obsession with young girls / women and it is deeply unpleasant and very hypocritical. Today’s article really seems to be wallowing in obsessive detail about the lack of...
View ArticleThe Freak Show business model of modern journalism
I attended a blogging event over the weekend which I want to write up at some point – I’m still gathering my thoughts somewhat – and I had the chance to get across my basic disgust at the...
View ArticleShameless attempts to cash in
I’m currently building a new blog that will attempt to draw together some of the narratives discussed on this blog into essays that have a bit more depth, that can start to draw together blog posts...
View ArticleKendall Jenner / Kardashian: Mailbait extraordinaire
Following on from my post on how the Mail hypocritically cashes in on publishing vast quantities of semi-nude photos of celebrities, all the while wagging their fingers and shaking their heads in...
View ArticleWhy do women buy the Daily Mail?
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View ArticleTo churn, or not to churn
Earlier in the week Ginsters – famous for pasties and pies – decided to get some cheap advertising by conducting a poll using Onepoll.com that they knew would appeal to the Churnalists out there....
View ArticleYou know why
Today’s Daily Mail front page features a big plug for the Daily Mail ‘Femail’ section and asks the question: Click to enlarge Penny Smith’s article tried to look at the reasons why women might feel...
View ArticleThe Family Paper
I don’t think this screengrab needs much of an introduction because it’s become so typical of what you can expect to find on the wall of flesh that makes up the Mail Online ‘Femail’ section: The...
View ArticleAnti-journalism
‘Facebook puts vulnerable children at risk of depression, warn doctors‘ [istyosty link]. From the article: ‘A lot of what’s happening is actually very healthy, but it can go too far,’ [Dr Megan Moreno]...
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