Friday 16 October 2009

Brooker vs. Moir!

The evil, homophobic, slimy 'story' about Gateley by Jan Moir has been annoying pretty much everybody in the country today - now Charlie Brooker's weighed in. He can be a bit too 'look at me' at times, but this piece is a cracker. As a taster, this is his experience of reading the article:

It's like gazing through a horrid little window into an awesome universe of pure blockheaded spite. Spiralling galaxies of ignorance roll majestically against a backdrop of what looks like dark prejudice, dotted hither and thither with winking stars of snide innuendo.

Which pretty much sums up my feelings every time the Mail is mentioned. The Mail was, of course, too cowardly to publish the piece in the Irish edition - perhaps they thought nobody over here would mention it to the family.

Don't forget, everybody: this paper supported the Nazis, Mosley and Enoch Powell. Its editor 'feels our pain' about the rich staying rich through the recession but just bought a 15,000 acre (yes, fifteen thousand) Scottish estate for £3.5m.

1 comment:

Ewarwoowar said...

Charlie Brooker is a genius, and his article is superb. I was going to send it to your good self, then I realised that you read the Grauniad so you would have already seen it.

I want this woman to resign/be sacked, by the way.