{"id":4655,"date":"2014-08-15T15:20:15","date_gmt":"2014-08-15T15:20:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/?p=4655"},"modified":"2014-08-18T07:11:19","modified_gmt":"2014-08-18T07:11:19","slug":"bristol-post-balls-bad-punning-and-sexism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/?p=4655","title":{"rendered":"Bristol Post Balls – bad punning and sexism"},"content":{"rendered":"

Regular readers will be aware that the Bristol Post is not renowned for the quality of its journalism.<\/p>\n

However, the dreadful pun and sexism of today’s front page of the dead tree edition marked a new low in the paper’s already woeful standards.<\/p>\n

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Bad puns are annoying in headlines at the best of times and sexism is tolerated far less than when the fifty-something males in charge of producing Bristol’s daily work of fiction first started out in what was then called journalism.<\/p>\n

There has been a steady stream of criticism of the Bristol Post on Twitter throughout the day.<\/p>\n

However, the paper has not sought to respond to any of its critics, presumably because the person in charge of the Twitter account has yet to notice the ‘reply’ button.<\/p>\n

In addition, some of Bristol’s Twitterati have also been alerting the national media to The Post’s disgraceful front page seeking to trivialise a sexual assault.<\/p>\n

With front pages like the one above, is it any surprise that the Post’s circulation figures (as measured by ABC<\/abbr><\/a>) are falling by nearly 11% per year? Not to me it isn’t!<\/p>\n

Update 18\/08\/14:<\/em><\/strong> Bristol 24-7 is reporting<\/a> today that Bristol City councillor Naomi Rylatt<\/a> has written to the Press Complaints Commission (PCC) over the above front page headline, describing it as a “disgusting attempt at humour<\/em>“.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Regular readers will be aware that the Bristol Post is not renowned for the quality of its journalism. However, the dreadful pun and sexism of today’s front page of the dead tree edition marked a new low in the paper’s already woeful standards. Bad puns are annoying in headlines at the best of times and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,3,32],"tags":[40,36,16,22,33,35],"class_list":["post-4655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bristol","category-translation-and-language-related-matters","category-media","tag-bristol","tag-comment","tag-english-usage","tag-language","tag-media-2","tag-social-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4655"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4676,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4655\/revisions\/4676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}