Saturday 19 May 2012

Star: 'Only says this in the headline, the story itself does not suggest this is your quote'

Today's Daily Star says:


Soon after this front page emerged last night, Gary Lineker took to Twitter to deny he had ever said the England team were 'losers':


'Only says this in the headline, the story itself does not suggest this is your quote'. 

Like when they said Simon Cowell was 'dead' - it only said this in the front page headline, the story itself didn't actually say he was dead.

And when they ran the front page headline 'Cowell: My feud with Cheryl' which included the actual quote 'we haven't had a fight'.

And when they said a celebrity couple had 'kissed and made up' in a front page headline, when the story itself said no such thing.

And so on...

This morning, Lineker added:


When she appeared before the Leveson Inquiry, Star editor Dawn Neesom refused to admit the 'Cowell is dead' headline was complete rubbish, saying instead:

you only have a finite amount of words you can fit on a page 1 as a headline...it was designed to be an eye-catching headline.

(Hat-tip to Martin Baker)

2 comments:

  1. Ah, so you can put any old rubbish in the headline just as long as you don't make any reference to it in the story?

    That's a great way to get round any slander allegations isn't it? The "It's just a headline" defence, I'm sure, will go down great in court

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  2. The Star reminds me a lot of Jay from the Inbetweeners.

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