Has the Daily Mirror run out of news?

[Dorrin]

Front page headlines this week have been a full size picture of Britney Spears driving with her baby on her lap, earth shattering news, worthy of front page and the startling revelation today that builders on the new Wembley Stadium are smoking pot!

I've no doubt on most building sites it goes on as well as a wide raft of work environments including government offices and newspaper offices. If you went through the toilets in the Mirror & Scum you will probably find cocaine residue on the cisterns, why do they think it is front page news in this day and age and who actually gives a f---?

Would anyone with some actual news please email it to the Mirror as their hacks seem unable to find any, must be time they got someone working at Heathrow, the Palace, Westminster, Channel Tunnel etc with dodgy credentials so they can picture them with a fake bomb to show how we are all at risk and they care.

Before the usual stream of "don't buy it then" comes from the regulars, you can read these headlines in the newsagents without actual buying the rag.

[stripeysydney]

I've always read the broadsheets , used to get some strange looks on the construction sites, I can tell you, all the Brickies and the Labourers with their "Sun, Mirror, sport,etc.
They always bought them for the "sports section," you see, but when I used to point out that there was 100 times more sports information in my paper, all I got was fack off, you weird twat......

[colin]

i agree, i find The Independent has better sports pages than the original tabloids. the downside is that it is beginning to get fairly expensive.

[DavidS]

It isn't just the Daily Mirror and the problem isn't just confinded to newspapers. The BBC tv news are pretty good at it. If it isn't exactly dumbing down the choice of leads are sometimes most odd. Last Friday, for example, at least 1,000 people died when a Red Sea ferry sunk, yet the BBC led with a story about the meningitis jab. Sometimes when you watch Ch4 news after the BBC, you wonder if the journalist actually live on the same planet.