The Press and Me Page 5

Bigfella- I don't know the tone and exact content of your documentary but publicity in a national tabloid is a great opportunity. If you pick a few up you will find that more and more of the content are just regurgitated from press releases and are not stitch ups.

Although the PR company should be telling you this anyway, write the papers a press release with snappy witty quotes and a great photo and you won't even have to speak any misquoting journalists.

Chipolata makes really good points about tabloids liking their narratives and feeding lazy stereotypes. Because of that however they like their man bites dog stories and fatman running marathon is like blonde gets degree, boy from council estates does ballet etc.

Quote: Kevin Murphy @ September 23 2009, 1:54 PM BST

I doubt there's going to be any money in it. From the sounds of it, this is a story about an overweight feller trying to lose the pounds. If he was doing it by shagging his way through Girls Aloud every night, I could see them breaking out the chequebooks, but otherwise...

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Isn't something I've done. But would be willing to give it a try!

Quote: bigfella @ September 23 2009, 2:25 PM BST

Isn't something I've done. But would be willing to give it a try!

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Even the ginger one? That's sick!

Quote: Kevin Murphy @ September 23 2009, 2:30 PM BST

Even the ginger one? That's sick!

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Aw, she's got a brilliant figure just goes too heavy on the make-up...

I did an interview about 25 years ago for a local paper. When it came out whoever saw it repeated the same wanky phrase that I had to deny ever saying. I couldn't understand why everyone picked up on it but I couldn't see it in the article. Turns out they'd misquoted me and stuck it under my photo. My grandmother dug out a copy last year and I still felt like a twat.

My wife works for our local hospital and there are inaccurate stories in our town paper about it all the time. Big headline grabbing ones. A correction goes out the following week buried in the middle of the rag. Really pisses me off.

Last time I was in the paper, the quotes they used were roughly the gist of what I said, but I'm pretty certain they weren't verbatim. But it was a puff piece, so it didn't really matter.

The main problem was that the photo caption said I was Lee Henman and vice versa. I wouldn't mind, but now I'm constantly getting bothered by autograph hunters.

Right going to do some photographs for the local paper at the gym.

Might have to tell the young blonde lycra clad girlies it's for secret multi millonaire weekly!

Quote: Paul W @ September 23 2009, 1:50 PM BST

I can be like... "I know that guy from a forum... but his sketches are shite"

I'm joking of course...

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I can be like... "I know that guy from a forum... but his sketches are funny"

I'm joking of course...