To be in an absolute rage with Liz Jones

[kenobi]

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 >

potplant - I think you're absolutely correct and I am feeding the LJ/DM troll by linking it, but I just had to vent.

2blessed - it just can't be - surely?

She is vile.

And her journalism is lazy and ill informed.

LOve the Daily Mash pisstake of Liz Jones' article, which mostly reminds me of some of the crapper chicklit - you know the sort, where the author has been told to include every bloody label of the clothes/makeup/food/wine etc., possibly in the hope of freebies from the company mentioned. I can't read more than a couple of overdetailed pages of "I got dressed carefully in my Joseph suit, Manolo Blahnik shoes (which don't go but I was being Ironic), slicked Maybelline High-gloss-stay-forever-welded on lipstick onto my thinning lips..." before hurling the book against the wall and then introducing it to the shredder.

"I bet her heart lifted as she reached this spot, looking forward to the feeling only a Friday night spent composing something utterly unspeakable for the Mail on Sunday can give you."

Pure genius

I think she is really Marilyn Manson. I mean, you never see them together. Spooky.

(small voice).....i have grown to quite like liz jones and her writing. it has a unique acerbic resonance.

i'll get my coat.

kenobi - have seen it on 2 separate blog things now. Am in despair, used to think he was great...and to go from Patsy Kensit to her

[ makes pyre out of Simple Minds CDs]

Kepler10b You mean the acerbic resonance of lines like:

"I hate it when you just ring up someone to make a casual inquiry, such as: ?Ooh, when are you going to collect my recycling because I have now added Christmas cards to that enormous festering pile??, and they say (when I?ve already given them the name of the village): ?What is your postcode??
I don?t want to keep giving out my postcode, it?s exhausting!"

By any chance?

She's a hypocritical, smug, nasty piece of work who is full of complete and utter SHIT! Not just because of this article, but she just talks a total pile of wank, purposely designed to get people's backs up. Sad cow.

FFS - just read the link to the DM article. What is she on??? Off to read the Daily Mash in the hope of salvation.

BaggedandTagged Marilyn Manson loves his mum and would have made sure she had small change in the car for tolls.

It seems like a fairly reasonable article to me. She isn't slagging Jo Yeates off, she's empathising in a cack handed sort of way. I don't understand the vitriol. The woman has created a character for a column that people either love or hate. She's paid to have opinions. The nature of them is that they are like arseholes. Everyone has them and everyone elses stinks.
If she can get someone to pay her £250,000 for her opinions then good luck to her. I'd do it in a heartbeat. Even for the Daily Fail.
(I will qualify this by saying that I have been a media whore in papers and radio for the last 20 years and I am green with envy that anyone can get £250,000 for writing that twaddle.)

PS. She lives near my mum and dad and always says hello in the morning when dad goes to get the paper. She can't be all bad!

I just don't see why she felt the need to retrace Jo's steps and to speculate on stupid things like Jo's choice of pizza, it's hardly a wish for a better lifestyle if you don't buy Tesco Value everything, it's more likely it was just a particular type that she liked. The bollocks about the toll bridge is just pathetic, as if she can't afford 50p to cross a bridge, it's 50 bloody pence!

the Daily Mash piss take is hilarious. And I bet she loved the accompanying photo

Nasty Poisonous woman, but what do you expect from somebody who writes for that facist sympathising paper!!!
She is completly out of touch with reality, My Dad has taken it upon himself to read her column to me!!!!
she makes me angry GGRRRRR

its funny that you all profess to hate her and the DM yet you've all read it, and seem to read her regularly.
don't read it if it upsets you so....

She is one annoying woman, and her 'journalism' is so crap too - makes you wonder how someone of so little obvious talent got to be so high profile.

I bet its that old git from status Quo that she is shagging.

Ewwwwwww.......nasty mental pic emerging....

Hopefully Liz Jones will lead a long life- to prolong her agony! The tripe she writes at the back of the 'You' supplement, are testament to the fact that she is sad,talentless and shallow. And so with that knowledge you can be rest assured that she isn't enjoying her existence!

....or meatloaf?

tsk. And her a vegetarian!

Urgh. Can the UK government impose a tax on the word 'lovely', please?

Demented - you're right of course. I don't seek her out but I always click the links to DM. Can't help myself.

This is why I do not read Liz Jones. She is a moron. And the DM in general is not good for my rage.

Why oh why did I click on the link??