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Several Daily Mail editorial staff along with columnist Stephen Glover are believed to be suffering from a mystery illness which has resulted in selective amnesia. Possibly a symptom of DMC (Daily Mail Contact), the illness leaves the victims with only vague and often erroneous recollections of events which occurred the day or week before and an inability to make sense of the world.
It is believed that this illness is the only credible explanation for Stephen Glover's article 'The Guardian, a failed putsch and a question of media ethics.'
Anyone who reads the Daily Mail would be aware that during the past few weeks the paper has been vociferous in demanding a change of leadership and in calling for a general election. In yesterday's Daily Mail the editorial comment included -
'How could the electorate have made it clearer that we want a general election as soon as possible to replace an exhausted and discredited Government with one that enjoys the mandate of the people?'
Yet, in Stephen's article today which, it is assumed, must have been approved by the same editorial staff, clearly suffering from the same condition, he writes :
'For the time being Gordon Brown is safe, and his would-be assassins and rebels shrink back into the shadows, several of them unidentified. But as the dust settles, one rather disturbing aspect of the unedifying saga has not been commented on: the role of a major newspaper which, not content with just reporting and commenting on events, actually played a leading part with the rebels in their attempted putsch against the Prime Minister.'
Stephen then goes on to name the Guardian as the 'major' newspaper in question, but then changes tack and lays the blame for the entire debacle on a woman called Polly. Clearly delusional and unable to remember anything that has previously appeared in the Daily Mail on this subject, he rounds up with the comment:
'Newspapers which enthusiastically recommend a momentous course of action which runs into the sand inevitably end up looking silly.'
It is believed that if these are symptoms of DMC, they will subside after three days in the sanctity of a darkened room, along with total abstinence from the Daily Mail. Here's hoping Stephen and the editorial staff all have a speedy recovery! |
