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"Such junkies as Kate Moss"
In a piece of audaciously reductive phrase-making, The Daily Mail have attempted to top The Daily Express's now legendary "Hey Jude hitmakers" with a caption under a photo of the skin and bones supermodel (looking scarily like Amanda Holden) that reads "A country that reveres such junkies as Kate Moss has no right to lecture China on its drugs policy, argues Leo McKinstry" http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1239051/LEO-McKINSTRY-Sorry-jo...
Putting aside the deeply unpleasent content of the Mail column for a moment, can the massive come up with similarly dismissive descriptions of the uber-famous? How about "Such jug-eared world leaders as Barack Obama" or "Chubby booze salesman Orson Welles" as your starter for 10. over to you.
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"skin and bones supermodel"
Reductive phrase-making? Yes, I see what you mean. The nasty old Mail at it again, eh?
That's not reductive, just
That's not reductive, just an accurate description, just as world famous, multi-millionaire songwriter would be a fair description of Macca.
Such Hitler supporting newspapers
Like the Daily Mail.
technically
is Ms Moss a junkie (which I would take to be a heroin addict)? because, he adds quickly, whatever the Mail may think about her chemical recreations, i didn't actually think she was ...
Snap
That's exactly what I thought when I saw it.
Mr McKinstry obviously thinks junkie is a catch-all term to describe drug users. Ms Moss's lawyers might take it upon themselves to point out his error.
The Daily Mail
Paying them any attention at all only encourages it. The hateful piece written by Jan Moir about Stephen Gately must have sent their website traffic through the roof thanks to the Twitter campaign, and website hits equals advertising revenue, even if the ads were taken off that particular page. They aren't clever enough to have thought of doing something like that deliberately, but sooner or later it will be everyone's game. Outrage = attention = money.
The only way to respond to the Mail is to not respond at all.
"The complete
and utter bell-end Pete Docherty"?
Oh, hang on
High waisted
flat topped, spawn of the devil.........
Brian Setzer?
One eyed
slack jawed, breathless oaf......
Sammy Davis Jr?
But it does seem a bit harsh on him.
Xenophobic, incurably right-wing
million selling the Daily Mail?
Seriously, how can anyone with half a brain justify buying that dross?
Just to clarify, I don't buy
Just to clarify, I don't buy the Mail or read it online, usually. Someone linked to the article on Twitter with a comment along the lines of "now we've really reached the bottom of the barrel".