Sunday isn’t Sunday without The Sunday Telegraph defaming a celebrity
The Sunday Telegraph doesn’t seem to have entirely learned its lesson about double checking the identity of famous people before jumping in with both feet.
The newspaper that added to the gaiety of the nation with the fake Pauline Hanson photos has been at it again – this time getting the wrong end of the stick and announcing a Twitter spat between Jackie O and Kate Mac, who had until recently been 2Day FM colleagues and remain friends.
The story was to be found in the newspaper’s gossip column edited by Ros Reines, known to her 3,892 Twitter followers as @tabloidterror. She asked:
“What was better than the skirmish between Jackie O and Kate Mac on Twitter last week?”
Like tabloids, like federal politics…
HAHAH – As the actual person in this article this makes me laugh so much.
How hard is it to check out who I was?? I mean really. My profile links to my facebook page and everything. Someone was trying to make a column out of nothing!
The author of the article just apologised to me on Twitter, explaining that they spelt my name wrong in the column. I don’t think their intention was to implicate the 2dayfm person Kate Mac.
Hi Caitlin,
Thanks for your comments. I do tend to agree with your first comment.
As to the message from the author: Hmmm. It’s an intriguing argument that @tabloidterror has come up with. If she is claiming that she now writes about every single comment from a member of the public about a celebrity, she may need a bit more space than her current inside back page slot. Perhaps a whole pullout section. Let’s wait and see what she has to say for herself in next week’s edition.
If only the Sunday Telegraph had thought of that explanation for the Pauline Hanson photos – “Oh, we didn’t mean that Pauline Hanson…”
Cheers,
Tim – Mumbrella
I love that her column is called Guess Who? Don’t sue.
Both bits of that seem apt.
Guess who? No clue.
So let me get this right: Mumbrella reports the this arrant nonsense on Tuesday evening, Cate responds to that post 50 mins later, having said nothing about Sunday’s column in her twitter, then another hour after that – almost three days after the column was filed – @tabloidterror suddenly apologies for misspelling Catie’s name (oops, missed by thaaaaat much).
I’m surprised Ros didn’t blame Godwin Grech.
I think its priceless that they think we would acctually believe that they spelt a name wrong – as Tim said – if they are going to write on every person in the community who has a problem with someone like Kyle Sandilands then I wouldnt be planning on getting any sleep in the next few years…
Horse Reines should be put out to pasture.
Agree with Hasbro – who outside of the Eastern suburbs actually reads that drivel?