The British Press !!!

Posted by: Berlin Fritz on 20 April 2005

Britain's largest ciculation rag by far is the sensational sizzling sun, which has literally minutes ago announced that it will support Labour for the turd time in the forthcoming general erection. Alisdair Crowley, sorry darl9ings, I mean Campbell ex Non Jouirno-propagandist for afore-mentioned HM Gutter-rag, as TB's number one PR man must be wetting himself larfin. Mow he's back on the booze, as well as some power in his lap, he must surely be relishing the fact that not only is the dirty digger (Murdoch) caught by the short and curlies this time, but that if the (currant bun) did anything differently, it could find itself in very warm water indeed, a la' Auntie Beeb.

Fritz Von And for the benefit of those who haven't got a scoobie Doo what Fritz is talking about (as usual) if you're the slightest bit interested, do some imaginative research of your own for once, I gladly await your practical critisism, innit ( I don't think) Big Grin
Posted on: 21 April 2005 by matthewr
After briefly swimming in the oceans of rational English for a short period your return to the choppy waters of mentalist blogger have come as something of a shock Fritz.

I find decoding the l33t spk of my nephews on IM ratehr more striaghtforward.

Matthew
Posted on: 21 April 2005 by JonR
quote:
Originally posted by Berlin Fritz:
Private Eye advertises SKY TV ? Roll Eyes


Ah well there you have it Fritz. Even the Eye is not as incorruptible as you!
Posted on: 21 April 2005 by Berlin Fritz
quote:
Originally posted by matthewr:
After briefly swimming in the oceans of rational English for a short period your return to the choppy waters of mentalist blogger have come as something of a shock Fritz.

I find decoding the l33t spk of my nephews on IM ratehr more striaghtforward.


Excellent, I hope you'll be very happy together, I'm personally of late into talking litter bins myself, innit. Roll Eyes

Matthew
Posted on: 21 April 2005 by oldie
quote:
Originally posted by Rasher:
[QUOTE]Originally posted by oldie:
If I remember correctly, there was a item on the BBC'S NEWS NIGHT Program only a couple of months ago when all of this conflab about, did he, didn't he, first saw the light of day, that suggested,unconfirmed of course, that Blair had agreed to back Bush what ever else happened........

Of course you are also remembering that the honourable, beyond reproach, unbiased BBC have no axe to grind with this issue ? Winker
Of course Big Grin
oldie.
Posted on: 22 April 2005 by Lomo
A belated apology to Fritz concering his reference to the "Dirty Digger". He gets worse names than that but overall his newspapers out here are middle of the road affairs. The problem is he just about owns all of them.
Anyway its Anzac Day on Monday, the populance will be more than happy as it means another long weekend.
For the record we have four sacred days in Oz where we regress to the slow sleepy days of yore and Anzac Day is one of them. The Diggers will march and more and more young Australians are donning their Grandparent's medals and joining in.
Tonight we have the Rugby League Anzac test match to be played at the new lang Park stadium in Brisbane town. instead of belting the Turks we now belt each other but then have a beer or two after.
However because of TV contracts these same stalwarts of the game get to come out for their respective clubs on sat and sun and do it all again.
Posted on: 22 April 2005 by BigH47
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I find decoding the l33t spk of my nephews on IM ratehr more striaghtforward.

WTF? and you accuse BF of incomprehensabilty.

Howard
Posted on: 22 April 2005 by Berlin Fritz
Is it cos I is White ? Cool
Posted on: 22 April 2005 by Kevin-W
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Originally posted by matthewr:
As much as I hate to defend The Sun as it does so much I disagree with and it undoubtedly has regressed significantly since the Wicked Witch took over, The Sun actually does significant amounts of good (I note they recently raised some £25m for Africa via the Band Aid project), has some very fine journalists and employers (some quite the opposite) and is in many ways an excellent newspaper.

By far the worst newspapers are, in reverse order, The Daily Star, The Daily Mail and The Dail Express.

Matthew

PS In the interests of disclosure, my best mate is The Sun's Business Editor so I do feel duty bound to defend them to some extent.


I have to agree with Matthew here. The Sun is by no means the worst paper on the block. That distinction belongs to Desmond's odious and utterly pointless Express.

The Mail is dangerous and misogynistic but is brilliantly, brilliant put together. Paul Dacre is a bounder but he is probably the best newspaper editor in the country at the moment.

The Sun is no longer the paper it was. Under Larry Lamb and Kelvin MacKenzie it was, for all its faults, lively, cheeky and agenda-setting, brilliantly written and subbed. Since Kelvin's apalling musjudgement over Hillsborough the paper has been rather cowed I think, and has suffered from editors not worthy of it (Stuart Higgins, that dullard David "Hairy" Yelland and the inept Rebekah Wade). There are two people who could makee The Sun rise again, and that's our old chum Piers Morgan or Andy Coulson, editor of The News Of the World, who is a superb editor who has had a fantastic year or so's worth of scoops (Beckam/Loos, Blunkett, etc). It still has moments of brilliance and is undoubtedly the most influential of all newspapers, but it no longer seems to know where the mood of the country lies, which it used to be able to do in its "glory" years.

The Mirror, once the greatest paper in the world, has not prospered under Richard Wallace, who does not seem up to the job; the Times is boring, the Telegraph is well, the Telegraph, the Indy is by far the best of the qualities but too small to have much influence while the Guardian is becoming smug and inert (a great pity).

But I think our press is still one of the best in the world - far better our rags than a lot of the American ones, which are either pompous beyond belief or else tediously parochial.

Kevin

PS Campbell did once work for Murdoch - not on the Sun, but on Today, which the Digger closed in 1995.