Jul/10
11:37 7
The direct message that went public: Sky News’ Mark White and his “big powerful weapon”
It’s good to see the Twitter stream on a manhunt for “Britain’s most wanted”, as Sky News keep shouting at us, being used for random banter (albeit in error) between journalists. After a Scrapbook reader grabbed a copy of this journalism anomaly it was swiftly removed from the list of updates on the continuing search for Raoul Moat.
Makes a change from Kay Burley terrifying the locals!
Hat-tip: Sam Cudworth
Mar/10
16:07 60
Because he’s worth it? David Cameron uses Sky News camera lens to style his hair
UPDATE 10 MARCH With more than 10,000 views in one day, this little video has gone viral!
UPDATE 11 MARCH Dave’s “hairbrush moment” is now the 3rd most viewed YouTube video in the world and is due to crack 40,000 views barrier later today.
Living up to an airbrushed version of yourself must be hard going. It’s therefore reassuring to see that Dave has been taking hairstyling tips from former US presidential hopeful John Edwards: never allow a live camera to compromise the status of your barnet. There was no mirror to hand but Dave gets extra points for improvising with the Sky News camera lens.
As Paul Waugh tweeted earlier:
Scrapbook has managed to track down some video!
The look on Dermot Murnaghan’s face sums it up: cringe!
UPDATE 16:35 Hats off to MyDavidCameron for this tweet: “Cameron in need of a hairbrush, not an airbrush!”
Feb/10
16:55 1
Ashes to ashes: Sky News’ Kay Burley eats humble pie over Catholic gaffe
As a good Catholic schoolboy, Scrapbook thought walking round with burnt bits of palm leaves smeared on his forehead was most entertaining. The practices of Ash Wednesday were evidently lost on Sky News’ Kay Burley this week as she proceeded to speculate at length as to why US vice-president Joe Biden “looks like he’s walked into a door”. Burley even joked that bruising may have resulted from a sporting accident on his visit to the Olympics in Vancouver.
You can almost see her wincing off camera as she apologises (scroll to the beginning to hear the initial gaffe)!
That’ll be ten Our Fathers and five Hail Marys, Kay.
Hat-tip: Huffington Post
