Not A Rant: The Sun in ‘exactly the f*ckwitted sort of thing The Sun do’ Shocker
Whether it’s either, as we might imagine, simply the vitriol of knuckle-headed-knuckle-dragging bigots, or the calculated actions of debauched marketing strategists attempting to shift some units – are we really THAT surprised by this virulent nonsense anymore?
Pseudo-moralising (usually on Twitter) is entirely ineffectual and only propagates their unflinching malevolence.
STOP. F*CKING. BUYING. IT.
They had a Page 3 Girl, as part of their ‘News In Briefs’ section, commenting on the Richard Keys and Andy Gray story for Christs sake. They have Page 3 Girls. They call them Page 3 Girls *Testing 1,2,3 … Is this thing on?*
(If you’re one of the *lol-phwoaaarr-pot-noodle-wank-sob* lot who enjoy this rag, then you’ve come to the wrong site and a torrent of abuse will happily escort you from the premises)
As I have a natural aversion to the word ‘rant’, I’m just going to leave a few examples lying around the place and you can choose to do with them what you like.
I think a few people may believe that it’s only this generation (primarily through the Leveson Inquiry) that has happened upon the startling resemblance between Rupert Murdoch and a massive arsehole. Here’s a Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie sketch from 1995…
Click to view article
Masters of holding a mirror up to society, Viz Comic, have for years parodied The Daily Mirror‘s Tony Parsons, with the character Tony Parshole.
Recently, he parodied himself, so they didn’t have to.
Here’s his painfully disconcerting REAL-LIFE GENUINE article on the passing of Whitney Housten.
Who can forget the Daily Mail showing themselves up entirely by printing the “Amanda Knox – Guilty” story, before she’d been found ‘not’…
The examples above are not the rare exceptions, they are the rule. If you really want to flex your mal-contented muscle, stop buying tabloids altogether. They are nothing more than mind pollutants. Remember, you are free to create your own reality.
(This has drifted way too far away from football territory for my liking)
