After my post on Thursday about the MSM use of the word ‘Former’ where they cherry pick some occupation or event in a persons life to imply / suggest something about the persons character whether or not it is relevant to the story being related.
So comes this classic example from The Daily Mail
On reading the article, I take it the journalist is not enamoured of Heather Mills so we have her variously being described as:
“The Former Lady McCartney”
“The Former escort girl”
“The Tyneside-born former underwear model” (Double sneer whammy there)
Relevance to the story of the last two, none
It’s lazy, snide and it’s ugly and I hate it.
(For the geeks the word ‘former’ is used 11 times in the article)
In case it disappears
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