A big raspberry goes to Liz Hoggard’s piece in yesterday’s You magazine, for a feature called:
“At Last, A Role Model For Real Women”
This is about a model, Lara Stone, who is the new face of Jaeger, and is attracting a lot of attention from media and designers alike.
The description of the feature in the contents [...]
Entries from August 2009
August 31, 2009
A Model Exaggeration
August 30, 2009
Liz Jones: Never Has A Headline Been More True
Liz Jones.
What more do we need to say? The fashion journo and mistress of the confessional article has reached new heights of oddity recently with her move to the wilds of the south-west and subsequent articles slagging off everything about the south-west (OK, mostly the people).
We vaguely keep up with her life (as it appears [...]
August 27, 2009
The Truth About Eamonn Holmes. Not.
Great example of inadequate quality checks at the BBC this week, in a story online about the inexplicable decision to employ Peter Andre as a showbiz reporter on ITV’s This Morning.
This decision is worthy of a post in its own right (not sure what Andre’s qualifications are as a reporter, as someone who knows the showbiz [...]
August 25, 2009
Posting The News
Good on Birmingham Post editor Marc Reeves for responding to reports today that Trinity Mirror is consulting on whether to turn the Post from a daily to a weekly newspaper.
Marc has detailed the options for the paper’s future on his blog, and asked for his readers’ views.
It may be that readers don’t decide what happens [...]
August 23, 2009
How To Confuse Your Customers
We spotted this sign outside a local antiques centre, and it had us quite confused for a while. Although we can be a bit daft, admittedly.
No, it’s not Photoshopped, although someone (a very bored someone, obviously) has clearly done a bit of manual improvement to the sign.
But what we found funny was the number of [...]
August 21, 2009
Lost In Translation – The Sequel
Still on the subject of Spain, and here’s an advert that, bizarrely, was in a men’s toilet in a Spanish bar.
Yes, we know it’s odd taking a camera into a men’s toilet, but honestly, we only did it after we spotted the ad on a previous, um, toilet stop, and thought it was so odd [...]
August 20, 2009
Lost In Translation
House of Journopig has just returned from a sojourn in southern Spain, where we were struck with the giggles over some of the advertising we came across.
This was, in some cases, due to some words meaning different things in different languages. For example, who could resist buying this brand of bread?
However, Journopig One would like [...]
August 12, 2009
Feel Like Death? Run The Marathon.
Andy Blackford has written an opinion piece in the September edition of Runner’s World, responding to Richard Branson’s call for suggestions to improve the London Marathon route. Branson apparently wants the route to be a bit more glamorous and fun.
Andy points out that runners generally aren’t too focussed on these aspects of a marathon route [...]
August 7, 2009
An Aside On Journalistic Style
We love America in Journopig Towers. We go to America on holiday. We read American lit. We’re interested in American politics.
So it makes sense that we follow American news via US news websites, and one we follow regularly is the LA Times.
One thing we’ve noticed is the difference in terminology used in reporting murder cases.
In [...]
August 4, 2009
Citizen Watch
The Banbury Cake has been a bit disappointing, recently. It’s had news in it, for starters.
So this week, we turn our attention to another regional paper, The Citizen, which covers Gloucester and district news.
The Citizen’s edition of 31 July was a bit odd, mainly because as we read it, we had a strange sense of [...]
