Press Association and Big Media Fail to Double Source
Guido has just checked with David Miliband’s office. He didn’t Twitter a tribute to Michael Jackson. British newspapers are reporting that he Twittered “Never has one soared so high and yet dived so low. RIP Michael”. Except of course he didn’t.
On Wednesday Guido gave a presentation to the Press Association on the future of digital journalism. Looks like Guido could teach them something about checking their sources…
UPDATE : Paul Waugh and Sunder Katawala also exercised commonsense in suspecting that Her Majesty’s Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs might not be Twittering in the middle of the night about Wacko Jacko. Guido will not be taking lectures in future from Twitterholics on how they will crowd source news or from the grandees of the newswires on how they have higher thresholds for substantiating stories.
UPDATE II : P.A. have now pulled their story, so has the Telegraph. Agence France Presse also ran the story.
Bit like the twitter that wasn’t sent about the speaker not getting settled in before the election was to be called?
“And now over to our Middle East Editor, Jeremy Bowen, on how the death of Michael Jackson is expected to impact the Middle Eastern peace process…”
(c) All media outlets, especially the Buggers Broadcasting Communism.
Dear Charles
Ha!
In my conception of things, those that are masters of the novel, voguish art of twitter are twits! Ha!
On the subject of Mr Jackson’s demise, click on my name to be transported (electronically of course, ha!) to my website and read about the occult mysteries foretokened by numerology which point to a reunion in the cosmos for Jackson, Glitter and Gordon when the planets on the equinoctial night are perfectly aligned for the first time since the end of the Silver Coven of witches.
Hooray! I’m mad!
Yours sincerely
George Laird
The Campaign for Human Rights at Glasgow University
are you at secondary school yet ?
Twitter ye not!
Miliband he twittered not.
Sky still says he did.
Could we now say that someone who has a false twitter message attributed to them has been “Twattered” ?
I thought Guido was going to stop this sort of thing?
red or brown sauce on the buttie
o/t guido you quote of the day should be renamed quote of the week ?
If it’s a bacon butty, red, but with a dash of Worcester.
He just did Charlie and now you’re FIRST. Wahay!
What can I say? I’d like to thank my wife, my manager and anyone else who has helped me over the years. I love you all.
Say whatever you like, just don’t say, “First!”.
Still going around telling other people what to do eh doctor dick.
Bloody typical of you zionist warmongers, innit, telling other people how to lead their lives.
Note to zionists: stop murdering Palestinian children and being racist occupiers.
Bugger off doctor dick you cretin.
Jackson will not be buried or cremated, he is so full of plastic he will be recycled.
Nah… too toxic.
Yes – his remains will have to be shipped to a poor West African state to pollute the rivers there.
Or Hartlepool. They’re not too fussy either.
The plastic will be melted down to make toys – children will play with him for a change.
Nay, nay and thrice nay. He will be turned into carrier bags, so he’ll be white and still a danger to children!
Am i the first – oh yes
Such is life.
And, judging from their expenses, checking their sauces.
It would be quite good if he engineered it on purpose.
ie he could take the instant-fame “get your name in the papers for being nice” credit, but then all the cynics couldnt really have a field day on it being crass populism because he didnt twitter it.
Is that too elaborate a conspiracy theory?
I think these conspiracy theories are plain wrong. The truth is this story was launched to take attention away from the North Korean crisis. I expect to have him serve me my fish and chip supper later.
Impossible sir!! I saw him at my local Sainsbury’s this very morning. Whoever that chap at your chippie is, it isn’t Jacko. FACT.
B.O.T
I personally find it rather tragic that the average attention span these days is at maximum capacity when ‘Twittering’ and more mentally fulfilling blogs, such as this one are (allegedly) on the decline. Must be something to do with the standard of edukashun…
Neph
*Twitter – like being on a mental diet*
Your Reply was too long.
Yours too!
Ditto!
!
Sorry I lost you half way thru, coud you repeat ?
Who’s pretending to be David Miliband on Twitter? It can’t be the real one? http://www.plenty2say.com
Are you sure Milibana did not Twitter Never has one soared so high and yet dived so low. RIP Michael”,
Paul waugh writes
FCO insiders have been taken aback by just how accurate some of the diary items have been, suggesting maybe one of their own has been feeding stuff to the prankster behind it.
Then again, who could believe even Bananaman was behind these?
http://waugh.standard.co.uk/2009/06/miliband-twitter-spoof-fools-lots.html
Breaking News.
Jacko seen in the Fulham Road 10 minutes ago. Don’t tell the yanks!
The messiah lives!
He’s not the messiah, he’s a very naughty boy.
I want to see the nude bint who precedes that scene!
He was a fucking bum bandit with a liking of small boys – absolutely no difference between him and Gary Glitter except Jackson had the money to buy his innocence – fucking perves.
The Welsh Tart?
Isn’t she a Mayor now?
Ava wrist job I think
Is it your hoax, Guido? :)
Nice one, Guido! Maybe it was a Millipede who twittered?
Incidentally, students can relax now!
Good news for students! Gordon Brown will not return to teaching and Speaker election a colossal farce
Unless, of course, this is up to the usual standards of veracity of the utterances of Gordon Brown… In which case he’ll be back in the classroom boring students with his usual and scary jaw-clunking style before the end of the year.
The Hoons living with Elvis
We’re just helping ourselves to a toddler sandwich.
Hey Breast, if you snuffed it you could join wacko and be a right pair of tits…
I would just like to say how sorry I was to hear of the death of Michelle Jacksonson and my thoughts go out to her family.
and thosee who share the same bankers..
Bloody hell, can’t you get anything right Mr 10%?
I suppose the Mr 10% is right though.
I have, of course, sent my condolences to the family through my very old friend President Omaha.
Gordon – please keep Scandalbum well away from the body.
Except that he did – http://twitter.com/David_Miliband
Oh. It isn’t actually him. I take that back then.
It’s probably somebody else with the same name.
Easy to see how the journalists could be fooled. They’d need to do some checking to make sure of their sources. Bit hard to do when it’s a foreign idea!
Long live the Cult of Celebrity and gossip column journalism!
It all started in America.
Only t’wats twitter.
Or twits? It didn’t escape my notice that the first four letters told you everything you needed to know about this format of communication. About as effective as Text-messaging – 100 chars. Only good for trivia, or short superficial statements.
I’m actually hiding in Thailand along with all the lovely boys and girls.
I thought the little boys and girls were supposed to be rather in your face over there. Hiding was the one thing they didn’t do.
I am ready to take over his role and fill my boots
Sorry HIS boots
A spokesman for the U.S coroner has just been on TV and said that it was still too early to say what caused his heart attack.
‘It would just be speculation’ he said, ‘because it could have been a number of things. You can blame it on the sunshine, you can blame it on the moonlight, but bearing in mind how many drugs he must have consumed over the years, I think that we can safely blame it on the boogie.’
Blame it on the Bogie.
Blame it on Gordon. He’s fecked up everything else!
I have all of Jackos albums on my ipod*
Was that OK Peter?
Good work Gordon, now give me a kiss.
First of all, remind me, what’s an iPod?
An overrated, overhyped, overpriced piece of Cupertino Monkey Shit
Its that thing you keep throwing at your staffers. You know the one you bought on expenses.
As long as you can sing the words at the press conference later and show genuine sorrow, even if you don’t know who he is.
It’s less than a year to go until the general election and we have heard nothing about policy from the main political parties. Where are the new policy ideas? Where is the clear blue water?
In lieu of any ideas from anywhere else, here are a few suggestions from me to get the policy ball rolling, thrown together by me in 30 minutes.
* A Bill of Rights and a Written Constitution for the British People detailing the rights and responsibilities of every citizen.
* A definition of the powers and the responsibilities of local and national government and a definition of the limit of those powers.
* Freedom of speech, including speech you don’t agree with.
* Freedom of association, including the right to demonstrate outside parliament.
* Recognition that the country is full. Immigration to match or be less than emigration.
* A referendum on Lisbon Treaty regardless of it’s existing legal status.
* Regular referendums on issues of national importance.
* A ban on political donations, political parties to be funded by the state, expenses to be published unredacted online.
* The restoration of rights by court defendants to choose trial by jury.
* Elections for police chiefs.
* Local democracy for local councils. Regular internet referendums on decisions about services, spending and planning.
* All expenses for public servants including MP’s, police and local government officials to be published unredacted online.
* A clamp down on postal voting abuse by using accurate registration systems.
* An end to the punitive society created by Labour. No more fines for leaving dustbin’s ajar, dropping money, sweetwrappers etc.
* An end to intrusive spying on the people of Great Britain. Licences required for CCTV installations. A court order by a judge for all wire taps other interceptions.
* An end to the benefits culture. No benefits payable unless the claimant has paid income tax or national insurance contributions within the last two years.
* An online reporting scheme for rude, officious or aggressive public servants. Warnings and dismissal for repeat offenders.
* A ban on intimidating adverts – TV licence, benefits cheats etc.
© Smart Weapon
Utopia!
sounds like common sence to me
Transport:
* A ban on all road pricing schemes, local and national
* Online reporting scheme for good or courteous drivers with monthly prizes
* Online reporting scheme to report bad drivers (by car registration number and time). Warning letters sent to repeat offenders
* Credits against points earned for drivers who keep their licences clean for three or more years.
* A removal of all speed cameras except for roads where serious accidents have occured in the last two years.
* A removal of all parking charges at hospitals, schools etc
* A ban on mobile speed cameras
© Smart Weapon
* An end to intrusive spying on the people of Great Britain.
* An online reporting scheme for rude, officious or aggressive public servants.
This is somewhat contradictory. I think I prefer Dave’s wishy-washy vaguaries.
Political parties funded by the state? Where do I apply to get my first ten registered?
Two more ideas.
1. Voting in Secret for MPs to destroy the Whipping system and thus party first (at the expense of the country).
2. Tax property, not work. Property has real externalities, working and employing-people does not.
The above is me not gordo.
What about repealing all the 3,000+ additional ways to become a criminal that Labour have introduced since 1997?
A bill of rights is normally demanded after a period of oppression. So to agree to one, means you have failed. If all was well, and the country was striving, for any thing but mediocrity, then no one would care.
Never mind our immigration. In not so many years they will equate these years to the slave trade days. To fake an economy to attract the get up and go types from other nations means you rob that country of its next leaders/doctors etc. Those that are left tend to shun order and are more prone to fighting. The biggest social engineering project ever.
Hence the progression to terrorism. Terrorism is the few gaining from power and fear, which is exactly how our politics work. No wonder they understand it. At least they carry there destruction with them. We just do it with drones.
What they do not understand is the feelings of a mass people. They can not see how their fear and social terrorism will be their undoing.
We’re attracting the ‘get-up-and-go types’ from the 3rd-world? Only in the field of criminality. As far as the NHS is concerned, we seem to be attracting the ‘come-here-and-die’ type (at the expense of the UK taxpayer), and elsewhere we have destruction of pay rates for British workers. Now, if the 3rd-worlders who invade our country were able to undercut the pay rates of the politico-media complex, then the invasion would be halted pdq.
* An end to the benefits culture. No benefits payable unless the claimant has paid income tax or national insurance contributions within the last two years.
Sounds good – let’s see, I’m a full time carer for someone who has Manic Depression – that’s a mental disorder that affects the brain, and the victim doesn’t have a choice in the affliction.
I also have a serious back injury. Hmm, let’s see, I’d rather be earning £400 a month, than circa £4000 a month doing the work I love doing – researching subjects I’ve been working on and studying towards since 13 both at school, and in my spare time at home.
Hitler had a similiar idea – the first group he ‘involantarily euthanased’ were the mentally and physically disabled!
Love your politics!
Thanks Dr Nuts. I have a sister who is disabled, and the point you mention was certainly not aimed at the disabled, it was aimed at the unemployed claiming Jobseekers allowance.
The current arrangements for disabled seem to be reasonably adequate, but I would like to see the disabled and pensioners removed from the stigma of having to claim benefits entirely.
The problem is that “disability” has an almost infinite spectrum. At one end are people who quite obviously do not have capacity to work and who fit everyone’s concept of being disabled. At the other end are people with the sort of everyday aches and pains which curtail our activities a bit but which most people regard as par for the course. In between are tons of people and whether or not they try to claim disability benefits reflects their perceptions, their realistic options for work and – crucially – the advice they receive about how to go about claiming.
I have a severely disabled dependent relative and found the claims process very difficult – misinformation; forms going astray; gross delays etc but I have been told by friends from minority communities that they know of people who arrive in the UK and are immediately guided throught the system by community workers (sometimes then returning whence they came but continuing to have benefit paid into their UK account). If I were to want to emigrate to Australia or Canada, they would not accept my disabled dependent but it appears that the UK welcomes them in with open arms. BTW this applies to a very wide range of immigrants including professionals who come here to work solely because they have kids with serious medical problems and they have calculated that it is worth their while to use the NHS for high tech treatments costing hundreds of thousands.
He had the right idea about the bloody gypsies.
“* A Bill of Rights and a Written Constitution for the British People detailing the rights and responsibilities of every citizen.”
What each person… individually…? That could take some time…
“An end to the benefits culture. No benefits payable unless the claimant has paid income tax or national insurance contributions within the last two years”
I paid into the system for over 30 years. I lived overseas recently and have returned and claim job seeker’s allowance. Under your proposal I would not be able to claim!
And that would be because … ?
I have been on Incapacity Benefit for 4 years… 3 back ops later, finally got a compensation payout – and had to repay all the Incapacity Benefit paid out!
It’s a good point Anonymous – I am an expat too.
I still pay National Insurance Contributions, but a dedicated insurance scheme to retain access to benefits if you want or need to return to the UK would seem like a good idea. I am open to suggestion if you have a better idea?
that would be because National Insurance is a tax and not a savings account.
according to Mc Broon only 10% of Jacko is dead …. MMM might be right for once……….. think about it!!
Ay, the other 90% has long since been cut away and replaced under the surgeon’s knife.
STILL NO MAJOR COVERAGE for the Ed Balls U-Turn ?
Where is that story?
Elvis told me that Jacko is still alive and has gone to stay with Lord Lucan.
he told me that whilst riding Shergar
What do you expect Guido?
These aren’t the journos as portrayed in ‘Spitting Image’ all those years ago – they aren’t rotties slavering after a story, they gave up hunting years ago.
This lot are a bunch of Chihuahuas, occasionally picked up by their political masters and fed a tidbit to keep them quiet.
You can’t get shitter than a P.A. twitter.
Miliband is too busy covering up MI6 torture allegations (whoops, pretend you never heard that!). A day to bury bad news?
It’s a good day to bury bad news
Thought you were dead too Jo?
Fancy a date?
Did anyone else think she was quite fuckable , in a grubby nulab sort of a way ?
OOh yes. MY “filth” counter went off the scale.
For a Nulab – she’s on the scale with Caroline Flint.
It is a good day to bury a dick in Jo Moore’s pussy.
I’ll play hide the sausage with her any day. Oh, yes………(Some mistake here – Ed)
H/T to Prometheus on FT Alphaville for the best Jacko story of the morning: -
Apparently the FBI have raided Jacko’s Bel Air mansion after his death and found Class A drugs in the kitchen, Class B drugs in basement and Class 5C in the bedroom.
Ha! That’s an old one.
Is this how the EU interferes?
Unable to help organisations within our own borders?
The Government fully appreciates the valuable work of mountain rescue and other rescue charities.
There are a number of VAT reliefs available to charities providing rescue and first aid services, including VAT zero-rating for certain specialist telecommunications, aural, visual, light enhancing or heat detecting equipment. Such charities are also able to buy VAT free, medicines, medical equipment, ambulances and certain vehicles designed to carry disabled people. These reliefs apply equally to all rescue charities. Zero-rating also applies to the supply, repair and maintenance of lifeboats and lifeboat equipment used by charities for sea rescue.
Our VAT agreements with our European partners, signed by successive governments, mean that it is not now possible to extend the scope of the zero rates available to charities beyond those permitted by EU VAT legislation.
We have, however, focused on areas where we can provide targeted support for charities. To promote charitable giving, we have made changes to Gift Aid, which have achieved a considerable increase in the number of charities and donors using the scheme, and taken measures to increase access to payroll giving.
Under the Gift Aid scheme taxpayers can make a donation of a sum of money to charity, and the charity can then reclaim from HM Revenue and Customs an additional 28p from every £1 donated. In 2007-8 the Government repaid £898 million to charities under the scheme.
What’s the matter with you man? Don’t you know that Michael Jackson has died?
Sorry if it’s been posted but…
What is the link between Farrah Fawcett and Michael Jackson?
Farrah Fawcett slept with Majors and Michael Jackson ….
Dear All
As a consequence of the death of the celebrated songster and well-known eccentric Mr Michael Jackson of Hollywood, California, the estimable Alex Salmond issued a eulogy on behalf of the SNP fatihful.
“Michael Jackson was not to my knowledge Scots, or even remotely related to Scotland, nor can I even aver with much certainty that he played a musical concert here or could place Scotland on a map, but I am sure that Michael in his last ebb of life turned his mind to Scots independence and wished us well. May he rest in peace, the greatest man since Robertson, David Hume, William Smellie, Rob Roy, Balliol…”
Hooray! Such moving and embellished pathos.
Let the drone of bagpipe threnody sound out in lamentation!
Yours sincerely
George Laird
The Campaign for Human Rights at Glasgow University
You could say much the same for Jacko’s neighbour, Sean Connery.
Aye. I love Shcotland so much I’ve left it for a taksh haven. I’ll come back when it’s independent sho I will.
Errr, Sean, it has its own parliament and an SNP government.
Shorry shon, are you shpeaking to me?
Still slapping your wife about, Sean?
You still can’t do an Irish accent, can you, Sean?
A funny post George. Keep it up, we might even invite you back.
I’m not surprised that whole sections of the MSM have been fooled by @David_Miliband – even an idiot could have a) looked at some of his tweets and b) clicked the link on his Twitter profile. What does this say about large sections of the MSM?
narf
What does it say about huge sections of the media that they have no problem believing that David Miliband has got the social skills of a 13 year old?
He’s got the ‘A’ levels of a 13 year old.
As someone who called Milliband a fucking idiot earlier in the day for Twittering about Jacko and demeaning the office of the Foreign Secretary I would like to apologise.
However that does not alter the fact that Milliband is still a fucking idiot with the brain the size of a Whelk!
Still did not contact the families of the hostages.
Not as bad a Brown ringing about Susan Boyle but not the same hostages.
Where’s the votes in hostages?
Your being far to kind to Miliband and very unfair towards whelks.
Can anyone confirm whether Madonna is still crying..?
Ever since Guy Ritchie said
“like cuddling up to a piece of gristle”
I have never been able to take this woman seriously. I suppose that comment is all the more damaging because it rings so true.
Never heard that before but nice one Guy! There’s more rounded curves on Jackie Chan.
I’ll take my chances with Madonna, thanks.
She has stopped now. She decided to buy someone from the third world, to cry for her.
I thought it was a purely her being an attention seeker again.
S**t – Jacko’s got the front page – how do I get to share it?
Please do not insult whelks
Is that the fallen Madonna with the big boobies?
Ah Gruber, vot haff you done to your little tank?
The Conservative leader described Gordon Brown as a “legendary entertainer”.
Get your arses over to the Daily Mail Jacko site – red arrow all the sad fucks crying their hearts out !
You know you want to ..!
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1195607/The-King-Pop-dead-Michael-Jackson-passes-away–aged-50–rushed-hospital-coma.html
Bloody hell!
Some really have done the red-arrow thing. Worst rated at 176!
Top worst ratings: 176, 153, 139, 128, 106, 95
Fave posting:
“just praying that you will be well soon xxx”
Thanks for letting us know. That was fun.
My favourite:
Micheal was my hero and inspiration. XXX
Peter Mandelson.
OT
Not content with saving the world’s financial system and eradicating poverty in Africa Brown, in between writing books on courage and lamenting the loss of popular entertainers, proposes to raise 60bn to combat climate change.
Walter-fucking-Mitty or what.
The big difference is that Walter Mitty was harmless (relatively). Brown, despite his delusional nature, is actually Prime Minister of the UK, because fuckwit Labour MPs let him be (even though even they did not elect him to that role).
You can make a fucking huge fridge with 60bn squids.
…whether you need one or not.
For 60bn quid you could melt the ice in Antartica and grow food there. Imagine that. A whole new continent to grow food on.
It’s almost as if all that land that we’re ‘losing’ to global warming will be replaced five times over as Siberia and Antartica come on-stream.
Them global warming luddite cultists want to deprive us of all that extra land for growing. I say lets feed the bastards to the hogs.
will it have a cold water tap?
Though looked at another way, it is only three months worth of UK government borrowing isn’t it? Which country would not give up a quarter of its annual borrowing requirement to save the world? (God save England, since sure as fuck, Gord won’t!).
It’s like King Cnut raising 60 thousand groats to “combat tidal change”.
AGW is a scam.
“AGW is a scam.”
The biggest one of all of our lifetimes.
When the big money talks, everything else walks.
+++BREAKING NEWS+++
Mandelson stopped at Customs
They find a false bottom in his suitcase
Did it belong to Michael Jackson?
I know its not a nice thing to say but…….but…….Why oh why could it not have been Gordon on the slab? Just think what an early election would have done for the national mood
It is a very nice thing to say except – I really, really want to see his tear stained, crestfallen face after Labour have been booted out of office and he has even lost his own seat.
I can dream can’t I?
Aye, and the interviews will be hilarious.
So, Mr Brown, what do you say to people who suggest that the Tories won the biggest majority in history as a direct result of your abominable handling of the economy?
it wasnae me
it started in america, cape cod in fact, my favourite holiday destination
Why would there be an election? We vote for MPs not PMs.
The assumption is that the poor, benighted citizens of this country would not accept the ruling party thrusting another PM on them without holding a General Election shortly thereafter. But in principle, there is no constitutional reason why Labour could not change the Prime Minister on a weekly basis without holding a GE. In fact, that might be a good idea – for the remaining days of this Parliament let each Labour MP become PM for a day – there are about the right number of days left before 4th Jun 2010 – might bring some sanity to proceedings!
You wouldn’t like what that would do to their pension.
It’s what the Fire Service do. Promote everybody for the last three years of service to fatten up their pension.
I imagine @David_Miliband fooling most of the MSM will be smugly reported in a week or so by Private Eye
I’m just sorting out the reporting rights with Michael
Peter – and I thought you were as dead as Jacko!
10 mins of Jacko on Channel 4 news, first item.
Switched to Sky got really bad pictures of jacko dancing and some bird droning on about his career, News 24 , some guy analysing how or why his death occurred.Political website for the Biased broadcaster has brown and Cameron ” saddened ” by Jackos death.
The UK is ‘aff its heid!
UK has been off its head for years – ever since 1997 in fact. Look at the media reaction when I was totalled in a Paris car crash. Made me sick to hear the sycophantic reporters on the Toady prorgamme and the BBC News going on about it day after day, week after week ad nauseum – they couldn’t even leave me alone after I was dead! Even now, the Express has a front page article about me whenever it can. Death to the BBC, death to the Express, death to the ghastly MSM!
You don’t hear me complaining.
Errrmmmm, Gordon Brown hasn’t been in contact with Jacko, recently, has he?
Is that a rhetorical question?
Bacon wet himself on 5live as the story broke. Ian Collins on Talksport was a
touch more controlled. MSM have gone barmy on the story. OTT. Enough
The dead trees ensemble have just been reminded that Twit makes up 50% of Twitter –
Always check the contents of the Brown HP source
57.14% actually.
As a tribute to Michael Jackson, Neverland will be changing its name to Dinosaurland. Every child that goes gets to leave with a Megasorearse.
That’s really quite good if you spend enough time working it out!
Guido – are you going to lobby the Oxford English Dictionary to get “Twitturd” accepted as a definition of sloppy jounalism.
Twitturd (Twit-turd) – to allow passage, without checking the origin, resulting in a fecal mess
“Journalists, check your sources.” Have you been into the juice again, Guido? You’ll be asking for honesty and integrity next. Fat chance.
Is this the fake David Miliband: http://twitter.com/knudn
Breaking News…
27 of Jacko’s American Lawyers have committed suicide.
A spokesman said it was a better option for them than having to work for a living.
[...] time it’s the supposed Twitter tribute from foreign secretary David Miliband in the wake of Michael Jackson’s [...]
Britons were today warned not to be in denial about global warming affecting their lives. Climate Change Secretary Ed Miliband said people should not delude themselves that global warming will not happen in their backyard.
“People believe climate change is happening in the UK, most don’t think it’s a plot or something made up,” he said. “But most people don’t seem to think it will happen in their area. They are still not sufficiently aware of the scale of the problem this could create for them and future generations in Britain.”
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I have been a climate change sceptic for a decade Ed, but now that you explain it all so eloquently I am convinced by your argument.
I have decided not to drive to work anymore. That’s mainly to reduce my carbon footprint, but also because I was made redundant yesterday because of the policies of your fuckwit government.
Now fuck off back to mummy you clueless pop tart.
* 5 weeks of MP’s expenses, not a single big story to wipe it from the headlines
* 2 days of BBC expenses, Michael Jackson dies.
I think i’ve seen this somewhere before…but it’s not bad at all
Oh, The Guardian never let you down on a day like today…
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/blog/2009/jun/26/michael-jackson-earth-song
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2009/jun/26/best-band-rock-pop
Run just before the news broke, spookily NOT ONE of the people answering this poll mentioned Michael Jackson. Now there’s a thing…
Is ‘Michael’ a pseudonym for The Glorious Leader? The quotation starts to make sense if it is……
Michael isn’t dead. He’s just pining for the fjords.
Despite the wall to wall coverage I have seen a crowd of about 100 gather at the hospital, and a couple of people crying.
Princess Diana it ain’t.
By shares in onions, they’ll need a ton when the funeral takes place.
Lovely plumage.
Is this a publicity stunt Michael?
I wonder, was I the first with this?
With the state that journalism is in it is no surprise when the big boys fail to check their sources. Just notice what happened with MJ’s death. He was in the hospital. He was dead. No, he was in a coma. No he was dead, we really mean it this time. Is it hard to confirm a death? There are some great interviews about issues influencing the future of journalism at http://www.ourblook.com/component/option,com_sectionex/Itemid,200076/id,8/view,category/#catid69 which I have useful.
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