To be in an absolute rage with Liz Jones

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Is this the most trite, self-absorbed cashing-in-on-a-tragedy piece of journalism ever? words fail me

Aargh, AARGH! I don't know what's worse - that she's gone on some kind of murder tourism jaunt, or that she thinks that buying pizza constitutes a desire for a 'better life', her annoyance that Jo Yeates didn't spend her last night in a better wine bar, or that she equates her having to pay toll on the Clifton Suspension Bridge with the murder of a young woman.

...Or that she gets paid £250,000 A YEAR for this.

Or do I need to get a life and not get so aerated with the DM?

< fans self, blows into paper bag >

YANBU.

hmmm, it didn't read that way to me. The piece keeps Jo's profile in the news and she seemed genuinely sad at the loss.
Shrug.

She really is poisonous. Surely she cannot be as nasty in RL as she seems from her columns? Her priorities are so warped, and she makes me cringe with her snobbery - 'a white company button'. Urgh.

I can't stand her........... She is dreadful. Whinging in her column all the time about having no money then leaving her car somewhere she shouldnt have at the airport and then bleating that she got a ticket!! Oh and don't mention the "rockstar" boyfriend who i strongly suspect was probably some backing singer for a group that had a couple of hits in the 70's!!

that is perhaps the weakest attempt at journalism I have ever had the misfortune to read. Bloody hell, she must be doing something else for that money surely?

I have always felt nothing but contempt for Liz Jones and have avoided reading her for years - looked at this piece to see what you were getting aerated about - and thought "yep, the woman is still a moron". YANBU

it's a pretty lame article but not worth worrying about.

save your getting-steamed-up energy for the number of women who are murdered every year and the number of men who get away with it.

hopefully this piece will help keep it in the news and contribute a tiny bit to ensuring that this particular killer is caught.

Don't read the DM

dementedma - It's the highest profile murder case in a very long time, so I don't think it's going to fade out of the news anytime soon. But mainly what upsets me is that this feature isn't about Jo at all, it's about LJ. I mean what's this sentence got to do with Jo, for example?

"I don?t have 50p and try tossing 30p and a White Company button into the bucket. It doesn?t work."

something for all you fans out there!

the original DM article made me feel a bit nauseous...but the Daily Mash cheered me right up!

I'm starting to think she's some sort of Chris Morris/Charlie Brooker figure.
Some of the lines in there can not have been written with any other motive but to wind people up or satirise the type of self-congratulatory public grief which she is trying to display.
These in particular:
"I?d have expected the cars to slow down here to show respect but they sped past, carrying people on their way home from work. The lane is narrow. I can?t see how a car stopped here and a man struggled with a body without being beeped at and told to get out the way, as I was."

" Perhaps he also wanted to avoid the 50p toll.

I don?t have 50p and try tossing 30p and a White Company button into the bucket. It doesn?t work.

There is now an angry queue behind me. Isn?t it interesting that you can snatch a young woman?s life away from her in the most violent, painful, frightening way possible, take away her future children, her future Christmases, take away everything she loves, and yet there are elaborate systems in place to ensure you do not cross a bridge for only 30 pence."
"I almost buy that upmarket pizza; the choice tells me Jo wanted a lovely life, something above the ordinary"

I mean these can surely only be meant to satirise people who are trying to show how much better they are than everyone else because "they still remember."

TanteRose - that's really funny!

It is a rank article. But not surprising from Liz Jones.

Liz Jones: murder, disappointing bars and buttons takes it apart well.

I loved that Daily Mash rewrite. Spot on!

Sethstarkadder - then she should write about those other cases which just slip under the radar, not this incredibly high profile case.

But, yeah, I know you're right it's an utter waste of energy really, like waking up at 4am to formulate cutting replies to a person who pushed you when you were waiting for a bus

I'm not her fan but given her past columns this one was actually comparitively sensitive.

I was expecting her to (probably sartorially) judge the murdered woman in some way.

I blocked the DM on my old laptop to stop me being drawn to it like a moth to a blowtorch. Generally speaking it's designed to wind you up isn't it? Must get that block set up again actually, the world seemed a friendlier place without it.

Daily Mash is fantastic. Liz Jones - urgh. I feel sick.

sorry - comparatively.

"I almost buy that upmarket pizza; the choice tells me Jo wanted a lovely life, something above the ordinary."

Oh my fucking God. Is Liz Jones possibly the worst journalist in the world? If I had read this article anonymously I would have thought it was a spoof article used to teach wannabe journalists how to bring down an article with weak metaphors and irrelevant and inappropriate detail.

How is she still employed? Is anyone surprised that her husband fucked off? All these questions, and so many more........

TanteRose, Earwicga - thank you, great links. I am almost feeling normal again now.\

SmethwickBelle - 'moth to a blowtorch' is a brilliant way of putting it! DM = anger porn

BaggedandTagged - Exactly!!!

Jim Kerr????

mayorquimby - I'm starting to think that DM deliberately print this sort of shit just to drive traffic to their site to keep their ad revenue up - look we're all talking about it now.

That said, she is a complete fuckwit. I didn't realise she was a real person until her exH was in the papers, having a go at her.

Both those links have made me guffaw! Liz Jones is a bloody oxygen thief...and a toll dodger - LYNCH!

"I don't have £5 and try tossing a Kraft cheese single and a Michael Bublé CD into the toll booth. It doesn't work."