Posts Tagged ‘celebrities’
Posted by Irresponsibility One thing guaranteed to make me grind my teeth is newspapers and magazines using Twitter as a source. Duane Gundrum at Open Salon has written an excellent blog on why some star’s Twitter feed is NOT a news story. For the love of jumpin’ jehosephat, Tweets are not news. Subscribing to someone’s [...]
Posted by Irresponsibility The press has been devoted to proverbially kicking Angelina in her perfect white teeth almost from the moment she hooked up with perennial pretty boy Brad. Not out of any personal animosity, I assumed, but because it made a nice script. Hapless ‘can’t-hold-a-man’ Aniston with her tame blonde hair and tight smile [...]
Posted by Irresponsibility Donald Trump has been criticising Angelina Jolie’s looks. She’s not beauty, by any stretch of the imagination… I really understand beauty. And I will tell you, she’s not. Normally, I’d let fly. But sometimes a picture is worth a thousand words. Share It del.icio.us Digg Facebook Google Live Spaces MySpace Newsvine Reddit [...]
Posted by Irresponsibility I am rarely rendered speechless. But mark your calendars my friends, today is such a day. You may have noted my ongoing Britney fascination. The craziness, the suppression, the gross injustices. Now that she’s back looking strong and happy and beautiful comes the news that daddy Spears is in charge of her [...]
Posted by irresponsibility After serving up Angelina on a spite-platter for daring to spend time with her children and not being ‘nice’ enough to Brad, Grazia helpfully illustrates what women should aspire to: Cheryl Cole-ness. Here’s their four-point guide to appropriate feminine behaviour. A) Stand by your (philandering idiot) man “Throw in her back story [...]
Posted by irresponsibility I am finding it increasingly hard to justify buying woman’s magazines. They read like self-hatred indoctrination manuals. And they are insidious. The crude “look who’s put on five pounds!” Heat-style covers have given way to the sinister sophistication of magazines like Grazia (“Voted magazine of the year”) – a de facto weekly [...]
Julie Burchill, at her best, is polemic wildfire, shrieking through conventional wisdom, gulping it down and spitting out the cinders. She’s on this superlative form in a Guardian column taking on the recommendation of the “British Fashion Council to the Periodical Publishers Association to, in the words of heat magazine, ‘form a group to curb [...]
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America: winners or spoilt kids?
25 August, 2008 in children, china, olympics, parenting, tabloids, television, U.S., UK, values
Tags: America, celebrities, comment, olympics, sport, thoughts, UK
Posted by irresponsibility ‘Stop knocking the winners, you losers,’ Jenni Murray scolds in the Observer. The tender-hearted Murray is unhappy. Britain isn’t very nice to school kids, gormless reality TV “stars” or dead authors. I have yet to see the shade of light needed to cast Jade Goody as a “winner,” but I’m more interested [...]