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Rio Ferdinand and John Terry might be personification in the World Cup notwithstanding old injuries, but mess has struck in the press room.
Martin Samuel, the Daily Mails star sports writer, has slashed a tendon in his right hand, preventing him from typing. He had usually filed his duplicate for Friday when he went to catch a descending booze potion on Thursday night, disjunction a critical tendon. Because of the sobriety of the injury, that indispensable obligatory sanatorium treatment, there are doubts he will be means to record for the World Cup, though a Mail orator played down the suggestion. Editor Paul Dacre is pronounced to be seeking in to removing him a typist. Get well soon.
Tassles for iPad Page 3 girls?
Bad headlines for News International as they begin charging for online editions: The Suns page 3 girls, whose ranks once numbered Melinda Messenger could be forced to cover up for the iPad. The German publication Der Bild has complained of being censored by Apple from using topless girls on the iPad applications software. Apple not long ago private the art studio of bare photos from the site of Stern magazine, and forced Bild to put garments on the "Bild girl". "Today they bury nipples, tomorrow the paper content," pronounced a spokeswoman. Rupert will not be happy.
Harvard, the new Coventry
Jaws gaped when Will Lewis was suddenly sacked from theMedia Group last week, but maybe the essay was already on the wall. Last summer, the ex-editor of The Dailywas sent to Harvard on a government precision march by arch senior manager Murdoch MacLennan. Now I"m told a publisher at the Mail was once additionally sent to Harvard by MacLennan, usually to be discharged on his return. Worryingly, Edmund Conway, the economics editor at bothpapers, has usually voiced he as well is off to Harvard. Happily he has taken the prevision of handing in his abdication first.
Hear Today, drum tomorrow
John Humphrys has been well known to trouser large sums for presenting awards ceremonies, but he was nowhere to be seen at Mondays Sony Radio Academy Awards. The eventuality was hosted by Chris Evans, the new saviour of the BBCs Radio 2 breakfast show. The endowment for Best Breakfast Show went to Radio 4s Today, nonetheless conjunction Humphrys nor any of his associate presenters incited up to pick up the gong. How grand.
Playing for Sheffield, US-style
Fans as we are of US newspapers, it was unavoidable that their character of omission the word "on" when stating when an eventuality happened eg, he died Tuesday would lead to confusion. And so it proves: an reparation in The New York Times seeks to explain an essay about John Harkes, one of the initial US footballers to fool around professionally for England: "He arrived in England in 1990 to fool around for Sheffield Wednesday; he did not arrive "in England to fool around at Sheffield on Wednesday"."
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