Tuesday, September 25, 2007

Sex (?) in the News

Why do they call they "newspapers" when some of the material in them isn't news ... like yesterday's item on celebrity chef Jamie Olivier who, if you believe what you read, thinks he's a bit of (not necessarily even thinking) woman's crumpet, given how many women throw themselves at him, particularly when he's in Australia.
But it wouldn't do to remove non-news content from the pages of newspapers, because then we would miss out on gems about other "celebrities" like Jack's in The Daily Telegraph: He might be the Sheik of Tweak in the fantasy world of professional cricket, but in real life he's the Moron of Melbourne, the Bonehead of Blackrock, the Bogan of Brighton. Or Carol's, about the same in-the-news-again-because-of-sex-texts celebrity: I wonder what woman would find him attractive if he didn't have celebrity status. A fat, immature oaf with bogan hair and cornflake lips.

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