Political Penguin

I don’t add new categories to my blog very often as those that I set up over a year ago have pretty much stood me in good stead but I’ve decided to add another.

Much as I don’t go in for all this ‘the war on’ (pick your own subject) primarily for the overly sensationalism aspect of it but given the subject matter I find it rather apt.

There’s probably a fair few older posts that would have fitted into this category but I’ll leave them out and concentrate on only adding newer posts.

So welcome to the war on crap journalism. I’ve a few more considered words to say on journalistic integrity but they will wait for another day.

To start off, and I have a distinct feeling that the Express and Star will feature fairly regularly in this slot, I’ll point you in the direction of this wonderful story about a couple who got done for smuggling cocaine.

Your humble Penguin doesn’t partake in the consumption of illegal substances and I’ve never even seen cocaine in real life but from memory or to be more precise from watching Scarface with Al Pacino, I vaguely remember that cocaine is this funny white powder looking stuff that you snort up the nose.

So in the true journalistic high standards that we’ve come to recognise from the good old E&S, there’s an accompanying picture to remind us. Yep, that’s cocaine without a doubt.

Note to E&S journos. That would be heroin then, that is heating in a spoon and administered intravenously through a syringe. Surely someone could have made a few lines of sugar in the staff canteen if you were that desperate for a photo?