How Shit is Your News?

Now that the soporific shit of the Olympics is finally over time to get back to a real news agenda? Still no update on the Diana Memorial Fountain so we have to assume everything's okay.

In the meantime...Bloggerheads is run by some very funny people. I don’t know who they are but we like them. Here are two important recent articles we thought we’d draw your attention to, the first is a deconstruction of how breasts are used in political propaganda:

"The Sun and Rupert Murdoch - In the US, Rupert Murdoch's most effective propaganda tool is FOXNews. In the UK, it's a tabloid newspaper called The Sun with a daily circulation of about 3 million and change (more). Almost every day in The Sun, you can turn to Page 3 and see a picture of a topless woman. I know you're keen to hear more about that, but first, some background...

The Sun and Tony Blair - In 1997, Murdoch's two UK newspapers – The Sun and The Times - backed Tony Blair’s "New Labour" and helped in no small part to bring them to power. Since then, with only a very occasional disagreement over immigration or Europe, The Sun has been helpfully feeding their readers the official government line on all manner of issues - up to and including the Iraq war. On 25 September 2002, they helped to sell the government's biggest lie, with a front-page headline declaring that Brits were "45 MINS FROM DOOM!" When Blair and his cabinet were finally questioned about misleading the public on the matter of WMDs, Defence Minister Geoff Hoon saved his arse by claiming that he had not seen this headline (prompted by information in the equally-dramatic dossier on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction)."

...we'd al;so recommend this one here, the ramblings of a citizen of the Peoples Republic of South Yorkshire.