Scum-watch: Perry knifes Sun.
Katy Perry's publicist has replied to yesterday's Scum super-splash:
Not just two years old then, but three years. This also rather undermines the Sun's "sources" claims that the shots were for her debut album or her website; back in 2005 Perry was working on an entirely different album, according to Wikipedia.
The Sun meanwhile has contacted another relative of a victim of crime:
Quite right. Miss Kinsella's thoughts that "[I]f these evil people want to fight so badly, let them fight for their country" are exactly the sort of thing we should be encouraging.
The Sun incidentally does mention the publicist's comments, but strangely cuts them off mid-flow:
A case study then for aspiring tabloid journalists: when you need to spice up an otherwise boring report on someone dying, just go to the latest star's MySpace page, grab a photograph of them doing something that makes them seem oblivious or indifferent to someone else's pain, completely invent a "source" to attempt to back the story up, and get a quote from someone guaranteed to be outraged, and you have a front page splash. That you'll be promoting that person at the same time, whilst belittling the victim for sales purposes is neither here nor there.
Katy Perry is against all violence. The photo in question was taken in 2005 and is in no way related to the current events in the UK.
Not just two years old then, but three years. This also rather undermines the Sun's "sources" claims that the shots were for her debut album or her website; back in 2005 Perry was working on an entirely different album, according to Wikipedia.
The Sun meanwhile has contacted another relative of a victim of crime:
Ex-EastEnders star Brooke Kinsella, 25, whose brother Ben, 16, was stabbed to death, said: “Celebrities should be role models.”
Quite right. Miss Kinsella's thoughts that "[I]f these evil people want to fight so badly, let them fight for their country" are exactly the sort of thing we should be encouraging.
The Sun incidentally does mention the publicist's comments, but strangely cuts them off mid-flow:
Katy’s publicist said last night: “She is against all violence.”
A case study then for aspiring tabloid journalists: when you need to spice up an otherwise boring report on someone dying, just go to the latest star's MySpace page, grab a photograph of them doing something that makes them seem oblivious or indifferent to someone else's pain, completely invent a "source" to attempt to back the story up, and get a quote from someone guaranteed to be outraged, and you have a front page splash. That you'll be promoting that person at the same time, whilst belittling the victim for sales purposes is neither here nor there.
Labels: broken society bullshit, how journalism works, Katy Perry, knife crime, media hysteria, Scum-watch, Sun-watch
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