Adam Wilcox; tea drinking Brit with fondness for the media and tech.
Attention: This is old content. The archives are a snapshot of content created from 2004-2009. New stuff, visit log.adamwilcox.org.

adamwilcox.org

Daily Mail's Bin Campaign 18 June 2009

The last few days have hardy been quiet on the news front- Violent protests over Iranian “elections”, Treasury minister Kitty Ussher resigned from Government over £17,000 tax dodge, the Iraq war inquiry is to be held in secret. So what has the Daily Mail led with as its front page story for two days?

Daily Mail Bin Campaign

The Mail’s editors believe that wheelie bins not looking scenic are top priority and are launching the Not In My Front Yard campaign, to spearhead the fight back against wheelie bins. Apparently this passes for Journalism today, I wonder why newspapers are rapidly losing money.

Update

My always insightful Twitter friend emalyse has also noticed the screaming headlines and asks what time the mass middle England bin burning starts. I’m guessing it’ll be just after lunch, and end in time to pick the kids up from school.