A year in the life of Daily Star front pages

Today's hearings at the Leveson Inquiry were set aside to explore goings on at the Daily Star and The Express.

And in honour of the appearance of the Daily Star on the Leveson agenda - and as a homage to the brilliant blog post by Ned Morrell which dissected every Express front page last year - blogger Scott Bryan has done the same for the Daily Star - publishing every front page headline the red top ran last year, with a little commentary to guide us along (read Bryan's post in full here).

Scott's post informs us that in 2011 – a year widely hailed as one of the most-news-packed years in living memory - The Daily Star...

- Ran 130 front pages dedicated to the real or imagined twists and turns in reality TV land. That's more than four months' worth of its annual output.

- 37 of which were dedicated to flogging Big Brother and Celebrity Big Brother over on Daily Star proprietor Richard Desmond's Channel 5.

- The Star also ran 32 front page headlines about former glamour model Jordan and/or her former former-popstar husband Peter Andre - more than a month of headlines dedicated to the couple.

- The Daily Star lead with Ryan Giggs' love life on 33 editions last year.

So that's more than half a year's worth of front page headlines about reality TV and Ryan Giggs. Add to that a dizzying array of deliberately misleading headlines, such as the one about Simon Cowell being dead (TELLY KING COWELL IS DEAD, 2 June 2011, above) which earned a special mention at the Leveson Inquiry, and even the most loyal Daily Star reader could be forgiven for thinking they wasted 2011.

Read Scott Bryan's full post.

Comments

[A]

The scary thing is people actually pay to read this 'news'

[Matt]

I hope Levensen has reigned in the tabloids. Because the press regulate themselves, they get away with a ridiculous amount of sh**. They ARE just serving up what people want to read, but with every headline they print, my opinions of tabloids drops a centimetre. They're like a bunch of naughty schoolkids trying to get away with trouble, and leading the rest of the class astray. Sterner teacher needed!