Blog Pre-History #3

Observer Magazine Cover 10.04.11

*pop* it's gone. Just like that. We're now free to live in our happy, clappy, bubbly wonderland *pop*. 

Just don't mention the widening pay gap. 

Or that she's just the pretty PR face for the pornographers that gave her the 'breakthrough' job at Birmingham City FC. Pornographers she faithfully followed to West Ham United FC.

Or that she has no distinguishable career of her own.

Or that boardroom managers aren't people anyway, and they certainly don't have gender differences. 

*pop*

The article itself almost borders on critical sometimes. Before washing itself up with an asinine, 'Look at her go, go get 'em, tiger' conclusion. 

Blog Pre-History #2

Observer Magazine Cover 03.04.11

LACKEY: We still haven't got a finalised image for the cover, Ed.

EDITOR: What are our lead articles?

LACKEY: Do you remember when Kate Moss lit a cigarette on the catwalk?

EDITOR: No.

LACKEY: Well, we've got this piece on how smoking is a bad thing, despite someone in fashion having smoked. ... So what do you want on the cover?

EDITOR: [pause] Woman fellating a cigarette. 

Blog Pre-History #1

Observer Magazine Cover, 27.03.11

Anna Chapman: a former spy AND a woman AND a Russian. You've seen James Bond. You know how evil all of those things are. 

How relevant is the reference? Chapman was born in 1982. 20 years after that film was released, seven years before the fall of the Berlin Wall. The nature of spying may be a little different these days. Even the Dail Mail referenced a John Le Carré novel about trying to get the hell out of an inhuman, cynical, back-stabbing and amoral environment. They ogled her more than this visually, of course. 

Do you remeber those tasteful articles about Alexander Litvinenko headlined 'YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE'? Nah, they went for dull old 'poisoned'.  

Stock image cover reproducing a pre-feminist attitude towards women and Cold War xenophobia. Giving an article that was previously only amateurish a good, hard, shove into the lecherous box. Full marks to editor, Tim Lewis.

An Explanatory Note

Hello.

This blog aims to provide a daily fix of the most heinous thought crimes in the broadsheet 'fuck you, I've got connections' press, and related media.

The Daily Mail are hate-mongering scum: granted. The tabloid gutter press earned their name: well duh.

If we've come as far as 2011 and learned that much, well done, round of applause. So why do more respectable publications (well... I say respectable...) churn out page after page of sexist, xenophobic, little-Englander, narrow-sighted bile?

Fucked if I know, but here's a massive repository of it.

We'll be naming names, taking suggestions (comments enabled) and at the end of the year, we'll try and send out book tokens to the 'Most Prolific Twat', 'Most De-Contextualising Hack', 'Photographer of the Heaviest Breath' and 'Editor of the Brownest Nose'.

Now piss off.