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The Daily Mail

  • 01-09-2008 4:27pm
    #1
    ejmaztec
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,229 ✭✭✭✭


    Am I hallucinating? This article, one of the usual one expects from this rag, discusses Al Pacino's large paunch and the fact that he's been piling on the pounds. I expected to see him being lifted from his bed by a crane, but surprisingly, he's actually standing up.

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1051297/Al-Paunchino-Film-legend-reveals-expanding-girth.html#addComment

    Have a look at the article and tell me if you can see a paunch, or any reason for the article being written in the first place.

    The Daily Mail seems to have an obsession with this kind of crap.


Comments

  • #2
    Amz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,330 ✭✭✭✭Amz


    The Daily Mail is one of the worst excuses for a paper on the planet, the Irish Daily Mail is even worse.


  • #3
    Stargal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,626 ✭✭✭Stargal


    Is it crazy to suggest that someone came up with the headline first ("Hmmm, Al's looking a little chubby in that pic... hang on a second, I've a great idea for how we can make a story out of this otherwise unremarkable photograph of Pacino standing around waiting to drive his car home!") and then wrote the story?

    Daily Mail is the lowest of the low. Worse than a lot of the tabloids because of its pretence at serious journalism.


  • #4
    Larianne
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,954 ✭✭✭✭Larianne


    I was reading the Irish Daily Mail today as my Dad buys it and when thinking that myself- trying to be serious paper but it's obvious just crap.


  • #5
    ejmaztec
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,229 ✭✭✭✭ejmaztec


    .....and apparently Hugh Laurie has an enormous bald patch :eek:

    Anyone would think that he had been scalped by some nutter with a hatchet!

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1051491/Pictured-Grim-faced-Hugh-Laurie-reveals-enormous-bald-patch.html

    I've often wondered what the Daily Mail staff look like. I wonder if any of them are fat, bald or whatever. Perhaps they're like the Stepford husbands and Wives perfect in every way.


  • #6
    Stargal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,626 ✭✭✭Stargal


    ejmaztec wrote: »
    I've often wondered what the Daily Mail staff look like. I wonder if any of them are fat, bald or whatever. Perhaps they're like the Stepford husbands and Wives perfect in every way.
    Well to be fair I know a few people who work for the Irish Daily Mail and they're nice people. They're aware that not all of the stuff they write is hard-hitting or indeed, newsworthy journalism. They just write the stuff in the style of the paper.

    Having said that I think they should be questioning what they're doing a bit more. But that's a whole other topic.


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