Tabloids and Taliqueers

[Daniel Davies]

>Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2002 15:04:48 -0400 
>From: Doug Henwood 
>Subject: Re: American Tali-Queer 

>Michael Pollak wrote: 

>>I'd say this was a new low for the Post 

>How can they beat their 1980s masterpiece, in which they 
>illustrated some propaganda leak from the Reagan admin on 
>how Khadaffy/Gadafi/etc. liked to dress up in women's 
>clothes with a crude, pre-Photoshop simulation of how he 
>would look in drag? 

>Doug 

You realise that in the tabloid newspapers of The Greatest Newspaper Market
On Earth, that would be like just a normal day's editorial comment? I
swear, one day, someone is going to launch credible competition for Murdoch
and he won't be able to price them out of business. Then he is going to
give you guys a dose of real tabloid journalism and it will blow your
minds. The difference between British tabloids and American tabloids is
like the difference between crack cocaine and normal cocaine. 

Btw, if you enjoy the tabloid style, but you don't particularly want to
look at pictures of topless women at that precise moment, and if you want
your news with an avowed left-wing slant, the finest newspaper in the world
for my money is the Daily Record (the Scottish edition of the Mirror). It
is also usually full of entertaining stories about local hard men shooting
each other in Marbella. 

dd 


Get Your Free Email at http://www.al-islam.com