Newspaper headlines.

Mikinton

Mikinton

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.... or waiting for nothing to happen so that you can etc etc .....

Here's an analysis of Daily Express headlines from 2013. http://www.buzzfeed.com/tomphillips/2013-according-to-the-daily-express-front-page#.vojyE95l6

"2013 was an amazing year for the biomedical sciences. More than one in five of all front page headlines published by the Express in 2013 were about a supposed health breakthrough of some kind. Between them, health breakthroughs and weather made up over 40% of the year’s splashes.

And you only need to look at four topics - health breakthroughs, weather, immigration and Maddie McCann - before you’ve accounted for half of their lead stories for the entire year."
 
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Mikinton said:
.... or waiting for nothing to happen so that you can etc etc .....

Here's an analysis of Daily Express headlines from 2013. http://www.buzzfeed.com/tomphillips/2013-according-to-the-daily-express-front-page#.vojyE95l6

2013 was an amazing year for the biomedical sciences. More than one in five of all front page headlines published by the Express in 2013 were about a supposed health breakthrough of some kind. Between them, health breakthroughs and weather made up over 40% of the year’s splashes.

And you only need to look at four topics - health breakthroughs, weather, immigration and Maddie McCann - before you’ve accounted for half of their lead stories for the entire year.
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sarsaparilla

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or waiting for nothing to happen so you can make it up!

I agree with all you say Mikinton. I said to my daughter only last week that every time you pick the paper up they've discovered something that can save your life or something seriously detrimental.

A damned good laugh is what enhances your well-being - physical, mental, emotional and financial if you happen to be Peter Kay.
 
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sarsaparilla said:
or waiting for nothing to happen so you can make it up!
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It should be said that the MSM are in the business of selling newspapers(/media) to make money and not necessarily to relay the truth.

From a recent IPSO ruling ....

5. Clause 1 (Accuracy)

i) The Press must take care not to publish inaccurate, misleading or distorted information, including pictures.

ii) A significant inaccuracy, misleading statement or distortion once recognised must be corrected, promptly and with due prominence, and - where appropriate - an apology published. In cases involving the Regulator, prominence should be agreed with the Regulator in advance.

iii) The Press, whilst free to be partisan, must distinguish clearly between comment, conjecture and fact.
 
Withnail

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The ^ 'Drama of the Squid Coma Man' headline was a local news story in the Oxford Mail.

It involved at least one squid, certainly one man, and definitely one coma - the first act of the 'drama' actually began many thousands of miles away.

Care to guess why this might have been 'local' news in Oxford?
 
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The ^ 'Drama of the Squid Coma Man' headline was a local news story in the Oxford Mail.

It involved at least one squid, certainly one man, and definitely one coma - the first act of the 'drama' actually began many thousands of miles away.

Care to guess why this might have been 'local' news in Oxford?
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I also had a drama involving Brize Norton - a most 'entertaining' landing.

I would probably have been happier about it if I had been in a coma.
 
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Brize Norton is the way in here.

But we still have 'squid', 'man', and the 'coma' that brought them all there...
 
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Brize Norton is the way in here.

But we still have 'squid', 'man', and the 'coma' that brought them all there...
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One imagines that an altercation with a frozen squid, leading to entry to a comatose state, when near an island ground from which no other destination is available, could be a possible factor.

Carterton, which exists largely because of Brize Norton, is said to be the largest place in the UK which is not on an A road.
 
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Korean fisherman kiboshed by a flying frozen squid to the noggin boshed into a catatonic state somewhere in the environs of the Falkland Islands. Transferred from patrolling vessel to Port Stanley, airlifted to Blighty and thence to the John Radcliffe.

Spends six months or so catatonically, before 'coming round' in an Oxford hospital.

*thinks* WTF?

Goes home.

Drama of the Squid Coma Man
 
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Snobbery gone totally mad.

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