Category Archives: Newspapers
Media: “I’ve never treated you like a whore” Sex Writer: “You just did”*
Media: “I’ve never treated you like a whore” Sex Writer: “You just did”*Last week the Independent ran a feature with the exciting headline “I was a hooker who became an agony aunt”. Sounded fascinating. Another tart with a heart story, perhaps?
No, reading the piece indicated the headline was wrong.
The feature [...]
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“Twilight Success” – I invented that
Yesterday I discovered I’ve been quoted about the book/film Twilight in a Dutch newspaper. The journalist who wrote it must have been psychic, because they never interviewed me for the piece. And I can’t work out where the information they attributed to me came from. Must be the mysterious effect fictitious vampires have on the media. Read on for a creepy tale of supernatural journalism…..
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It’s just a word…
It’s just a word…The word ‘therapist’ means something. It’s a job title like ‘cardiologist’, ‘architect’, ‘choreographer’, or ‘solicitor’. You’d expect newspapers to get basic facts like this correct.
I opened my Sunday paper this morning to see myself described as ‘Dr Petra Boynton, Relationship Therapist’. Which is all very nice, except I’m not a therapist. I’m [...]
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