Physician, heal thine own ad dept. first.

This from a guy who a wee while ago decried journos breaching professional respect levels.

A surprising Sunday Mirror online advert

Well, trying not to be one who weighs into a inter-professional media industry 'critique', I'd have to say that I usually get a bit more disturbed by climate-change nanny articles in some places right next to ads for 4x4s or jaunts to the Maldives.

Where's the AdSense in that?

But agreed, those big guys who have entire media departments to match equally huge editorial ones should no more be allowing inappropriate ads to be placed than they should use Wikipedia to get their stories.

But it still seems to happen.

QUOTE OF THE DAY - Welcome to the petard

I reckon that in my writings there are a few ticking landmines that will come back to haunt me (and evolving views over time don't count), but until then, this tickled:

Two-way 'Mirror'

After 'The Sun' sponsored a conference debate, "Broken Britain", the 'Daily Mirror' ran a leader retorting "Broken Britain is a ridiculous Tory slogan". It's true the phrase is associated with Dave, but history records he didn't coin it. On 16 May 2006 a paper declared: "Broken Britain has to be fixed." The paper? The 'Sunday Mirror'.

Still, in their defence it was two whole years ago. Bless.

Actually, almost all the subsequent posts are epic, too.