Conquest of the Useless

Mic Wright

Honest media criticism from a complete arsehole.

Created 10 Oct 2018

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The revolting door: Kevin Schofield going from gambling flack back to political hack is another sign of the rot...
25 Oct 2021 • about 18 hours ago • 7 min read • 1 0
Previously: Scoop derangement syndrome: Journalists often forget they're writing about real people After yesterday’s edition on “scoops” and the condition now known as Scoop Derangement Syndrome, it w...
Scoop derangement syndrome: Journalists often forget they're writing about real people
24 Oct 2021 • 1 day ago • 6 min read • 7 0
Content warning: This edition discusses a story involving fatal violence against women. I don’t go into excessive detail but you may wish to skip this one. When former chief reporter of The Sun, John ...
Thick white sauce: Steve Bannon, Guy Hands and Andrew Neil — three studies in getting away with it
23 Oct 2021 • 9 min read • 5 2
[Adam Curtis voice]: This edition will tell the story of three very different men, with three very different careers who’ve consistently been allowed to get away with ‘it’ by the media. But what is ‘i...
In search of New Goonsberg: Praise for Laura Kuenssberg and preemptive predictions about her successor reveal the myopia of the British political media...
22 Oct 2021 • 11 min read • 3 0
Last night, The Guardian’s Media Editor Jim Waterson — who is well-sourced at the BBC1 — published a story suggesting its Political Editor, Laura Kuenssberg, is set to move on from the role. He report...
Havin'-a-column Syndrome: Squid Gaming school kids, 'needle spiking' and why British journalism loves a moral panic...
21 Oct 2021 • 9 min read • 7 0
As I was sitting down to write this edition of the newsletter I heard Times Radio’s Aasmah Mir doing a trail: “And we’ll be asking — how do we protect women from being ‘spiked’ in nightclubs?” She wen...
Dead Cheap: The treatment of John Pat Cunningham and Dennis Hutchings shows who British papers consider worth mourning and who they believe deserves justice...
20 Oct 2021 • 8 min read • 9 0
John Pat Cunningham was 27 years old when he died. He was shot and killed in a field in County Tyrone on 15 June 1974. He was struck by three bullets fired by a British Army patrol. The soldier accuse...
Hack belt, first Dan: Why Dan Hodges genuinely believes he and the Daily Mail do something more than trolling...
19 Oct 2021 • 6 min read • 7 0
Previously | Toxic avengers: The paper of “Enemies of the People” and “kill vampire Jezza” cannot offer lectures on civility... In a Twitter back-and-forth with LBC’s James O’Brien, Dan Hodges wrote: ...
The Daily Terrorgraph: British newspapers really want their readers to be afraid…
18 Oct 2021 • 9 min read • 3 0
Previously | Toxic avengers: The paper of “Enemies of the People” and “kill vampire Jezza” cannot offer lectures on civility... Between 1979 and 1984, three MPs were murdered (Airey Neave killed by th...
Toxic avengers: The paper of “Enemies of the People” and “kill vampire Jezza” cannot offer lectures on civility...
17 Oct 2021 • 7 min read • 3 0
It took just 10 days after the murder of Jo Cox for The Mail on Sunday to publish a piece by Dan Hodges bearing the headline Labour MUST kill vampire Jezza1 and illustrated with a picture of an (un)de...
Four perspectives on a delusion: GB News, Giles Coren, Janice Turner and John Lewis advert rage in the Exploding Plastic Invective
16 Oct 2021 • 10 min read • 4 0
Previously | Remember Foster's Law: A new method for dealing with Giles Coren Reading the British newspapers every morning — as I do as part of my continuing campaign of professional masochism — can b...
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