Showing posts with label news. Show all posts
Showing posts with label news. Show all posts

Friday, 19 February 2010

Life imitating commentary on life?

So this was part of this week's Charlie Brooker's Newswipe, repeated last night on BBC4:



Next day (today), Tiger Woods releases a statement which is THE main headline on ALL news bulletins.

And the PCC turns down complaints against Jan Moir...

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Thursday, 5 November 2009

France's Europe minister accuses Tories of 'bizarre autism' on EU

guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/nov/04/france-autistic-tories-castrated-uk

As someone with Aspergers syndrome, I'm not particularly pleased to see the term 'autistic' used in such a context (or being put upon such an anemic political entity as the Conservative party of the United Kingdom), but Lellouche's rant (for lack of a better term) may stick. With Hannan and Helmer jumping ship off the front bench, Cameron's not exactly in the rosiest position for a forthcoming Murdoch-leader-elect.