Tabloid war!
Britain’s The Daily Mail made an emotional appeal to its readership this week as they ran a front-page story about the havoc that plastic grocery bags can wreak on ocean life.
Cut to the haunting image of a sea turtle, thousands of miles away, struggling through the deep ocean waters as discarded plastic bags wrap themselves around its flippers and body.
These majestic animals are dying in alarming numbers because they mistake the flimsy translucent bags — which could in theory come from British supermarkets — for jellyfish, a key element of their diet.
Oh noes, the turtles!
But rival newspaper The Daily Express slammed the Daily Mail for using polythene mailing bags for millions of its subscription copies every week. Furthermore, The Daily Mail owns the High Speed Bagging Company plant that produces these polybags.
The Daily Express really spared no indignation in its criticism of the tab, and threw in some bonus commentary about its falling circulation:
Every week, hundreds of thousands of plastic-encased Daily Mails and Mail on Sundays languish unsold in shops.
Postmaster Steve Denham, who runs the newsagent’s at West Chiltington in West Sussex, dubbed the Daily Mail’s plastic bag campaign “eco hypocrisy”.
He said: “It’s two-faced. That’s the way I’d put it. At least with the plastic bags from supermarkets, they do sometimes get reused. But with newspaper polybags, they can only ever be used for wrapping the product.”
We love a good international catfight, don’t you?
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I bet the sea turtle pic is a Photoshop fake.
FANTASTICO! The Daily Fail is Britain’s worst paper.
Definitely thought that the bags in the picture were condoms at first glance. Wow.
I liked the good old days when the newspaper came in a turtle shell. At least then we recycled. I’ve still got a ton of turtle shell ashtrays.
Chris
But, just like everything else that sounds like WE SHOULD PANIC AND DO SOMETHING!! Turns out the whole plastic bag thing is just more junk science.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article3508263.ece
Damn, where is PETA when you need them?
This is just going to get funnier.
I really got sick of the word “Daily” in that post, it lost meaning after a while. Can’t anything come out weekly in that place? I like turtles, but is that the turtle from “Finding Nemo”? Coz it looks supiciously like it. Is this photoshopped? Oh my God, the turrrtles!
I thought turtles lived in the sewers of New York and fought crime! What the hell are they doing in the ocean?!?