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Good publicity for "thespoof"

http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/the-staggers/2010/10/chile-mine-theme-park-tabloid


http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/greenslade/2010/oct/15/dailystar-richard-desmond

http://tabloid-watch.blogspot.com/2010/10/from-spoof-to-star.html

Well, that's a first.

Ooh, ah, Daily Star!

Never mind, eh, better look next time

Ha ha, Indeed Daily Star front page..was wondering why it is getting so many hits....wasn't one of my better stories!

Nice one Gabhan!!

Now for the 'broadsheets'

Mwahahaaaaaa........

Very funny!

Congrats, Gabhan.

Congratulations.

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Quote: pinxit

Nice one Gabhan!!

Now for the 'broadsheets'

Mwahahaaaaaa........

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We already did that. Daily Telegraph.

And very nearly Sky News but they must have sussed it was a hoax in the commercial break because they never came back to the story.

Regards

Skoob.

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Quote: Skoob1999


We already did that. Daily Telegraph.

And very nearly Sky News but they must have sussed it was a hoax in the commercial break because they never came back to the story.

Regards

Skoob.

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WELL done that man.

Skoob's and CJ's UK 2010 election spoofs were certainly cited in the Telegraph earlier this year.

LOVE it each time the mainstream media is Spoofed by this site.

A few years ago my story on hair lice eating Britney's hair extensions was reproduced verbatim by UK red tops and then run as a bona fide news item on ITN lunchtime news - about seven days after the actual Spoof was published.

Earlier this year the Mail on Sunday ran a daft story about suicide bombers' boobs being packed with TNT in a carbon copy of my Spoof from a few weeks before. The author - Christopher Leake - didn't have a single attributable source and let his terrorism prejudices run riot. Most enjoyable!


And my fav was a story about Mossad losing its entire pension fund in the Bernard Madoff ponzi scam. My Spoof was picked up by a Latin American paper who hired some sort of erudite professor of security studies who then went on to justify his vast Zionist/Mossad paranoias - in print - based on my Spoof.

Etc
Etc.

When will these guys ever learn? A spoof is a Spoof is a Spoof is a Spoof is a.........................

QM

You forgot that one of yours that got quoted on that police website.

I think the booby bombs item was your best for causing havoc. That one got quoted all over the place.

I know Monkey Woods has had some stuff printed as news in the Metro freesheet, because he commented on it in a thread.

In the States, when our colonial brethren put their heads together, they've been quoted on radio stations and had their stuff quoted verbatim on academic websites.

It's great when it happens, and I'm sure there are many more instances that I haven't heard of.

I reckon we should get bonus points when that happens!

Regards

Skoob.

Gabhan

Great achievement. Well done mate!

Just a suggestion, but maybe we could ask Mark for a 'Special Achievement' box or something similar, maybe on the Home Page for when a writer successfully bullshits the bullshitters.

Regards

Skoob.

Frame that Front Page!!!

Congrats Gabhan, nice work.............

Did you read some of the comments on 'Tabloid Watch'?

Mark Taylor said...
They could at least have had the decency to steal from a spoof site that isn't awful.

15 October 2010 09:55

What a tosser he must be.............

Sounds like a genius to me birb.

What say we invite him to contribute here, then we can see how it really should be done?

Regards

Skoob.

When do tickets go on sale for the theme park?

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When do tickets go on sale for the theme park?

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Doc!!!! Great job since you took over the obits on the IOW...

brings life to the old rag!!!

Pulitizer I reckon!

Faithful Subscriber

Morse

No shortages of applicants that's for sure.

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Quote: victor nicholas

No shortages of applicants that's for sure.

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I dig it....you bury 'em.

Thanks Guys

It seems the Spoof must have alot of influential media types as readers!

I asked the Daily Star for some royalty payments...they ignored me tho! Don't they know who I am!!

Gabhan, well done! At least you got your 'name' on the front page. The Telegraph 'online' pinched one of my 'Paul the psychic octopus' stories. Cheeky buggers...I didn't even get a bloody mention. (Might have been published in the real paper. I don't know)

Sneeky buggers those journalists!

Lady G.

Thanks Lady Godiva....your a fine looking smurfette and your psychic octopussy sounds facinating...did you get excited when they pinched it

Nope! Didn't feel a thing! Cheeky monkey

LG

I just found out from watching "Have I Got News For You" that the News of the World stole my Kate Middleton Tracking device Story on Sunday. It was in the The Curse of Princess Diana's engagement ring.

How can they be allowed to do that. I've been looking for the story all over but I can't find it. I wanted to make rude comments along the lines of "Get your own stories, or pay me some cash."

Slimeballs!

LG

I know. Bet their story didn't have a cocaine submarine, though, like what mine did.