Tabloid Watch

Blue Monday is complete nonsense. As Dean Burnett says in the Guardian today: every year , much of the media become fixated on a spec...

Five days ago, the Mirror reported that Tour de France winner Bradley Wiggins was: teaming with Paul Weller and Bruce Foxton on new singl...

The Express and MailOnline have both published a story today - in their 'news' sections - claiming that 8:52pm tonight is the perf...

On 23 August, the Mirror and the Mail wrote about tripe. The Mail's Anna Edwards reported: Now in an attempt to persuade a ...

Today, the homepage of the Daily Star leads with three stories about the Jubilee. The next 'story' is this: That's the four...

The front of today's Daily Star claims there is a 'Fury over Big Bro live sex show' : The article, by Peter Dyke, begins: ...

In an article in the 'sport' section of MailOnline, a headline claims: Rik Sharma reports : not many people will have harbou...

On the day that Daily Star editor Dawn Neesom was giving evidence to the Leveson Inquiry, her paper came up with this front page story : ...

When former Daily Star reporter Rich Peppiatt gave evidence at the Leveson Inquiry last week, he referred to the 'huge influence' ...

According to reports in several papers, Rochelle Peachey has just been crowned 'Britain's curry queen' after eating curry '...

Yesterday, the Leveson Inquiry team held a public seminar on the 'competitive pressures on the press and the impact on journalism '....

Yesterday, the Mail reported : This app is so 'sleazy' , Daily Mail Reporter and the photo caption writer managed to mention t...

As well as helping to uncover the extent of phone hacking at the News of the World, Nick Davies also brought 'churnalism' to people...

Another day, another health story on the front page of the Express: Only yesterday , the Express was claiming there was a 'wonder pill...

The Mirror says : The Express says : Meanwhile, the Mail says : Each very similar article reveals the same results of the same 'survey...

Quotes from a Close Friend is a new 'media watching' blog which began last month and aims to highlight bad journalism and, in parti...

Last Tuesday, several of the papers printed a 'story' that was designed to sell an app and get a recruitment agency's name in p...

Last week, we had the annual trotting out of the 'Blue Monday' myth - supposedly the most depressing day of the year. It has rightly...

A ridiculous Mail headline for a ridiculous article: Mail hack Paul Sims explains : There are only two days to go before the biggest feast o...

On the day the Express was changing its mind - again - about statins , the Mail asked: ' Can taking aspirin in pregnancy make your son i...