John Rentoul on "Private Eye's sense of humour failure".
There speaks a man who gets his copy of OK! sent free to the office and doesn't have to pay £2.60 for it. Innit.
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Someone seems a bit tetchy. Anyone have a spare flapjack or sarnie to placate the rather hungry-looking Mr Rentoul?
He seems so eager to catch out the Eye at its own game that he can't even keep straight his own criticism. First, Mr Rentoul witheringly says the Eye lacks any grasp of "postmodern humour"; then, he segues into a meandering Journalism 101 primer on the concept of "teasers" -- pausing on the way, irrelevantly, to insult Lord Gnome's performance on Question Time.
Nice links to examples of "OK!" acknowledging their teaser abuses. One's got to wonder why Mr Rentoul would go so bitterly to the mat over the Eye busting the gossip rag. Is he close to someone who works at "OK!"? Did the Eye deny him a job many years ago? Hmm.
Since I can't leave a comment on Mr High and Mighty Rentool's page, can I leave one here.
Mr Rentool, if you had actually bothered to watch Question Time last week, you will have found that Ian Hislop was the best thing on it. Ms Coopers discomfort was more about being found out about her inability to answer a straight question.
There, i feel better now.
OK! can now be bought with three other Desmond sleb mags for one low all-in price, that's four !!!!.
Yes, I saw that last month - when the OK! cover line was "Jordan - I was raped" and the one on one of the accompanying mags was something like "what's Jordan complaining about now?"
Made me laugh, anyway...
On the subject of the Eye, the Penguin recently referred to its material as
largely fantastic exaggerations, distortions or just made up!
Oh god, not him... where did he say this?
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