Daily Star reporter tires of 'stirring up a bit of light-hearted Islamaphobia '

[PaddyJoe]

Resignation letter from Richard Peppiatt:

Dear Mr Desmond,
You probably don't know me, but I know you. For the last two years I've been a reporter at the Daily Star, and for two years I've felt the weight of your ownership rest heavy on the shoulders of everyone, from the editor to the bloke who empties the bins.
Wait! I know you're probably reaching for your phone to have me marched out of the building. But please, save on your bill. I quit.
The decision came inside my local newsstand, whilst picking up the morning papers. As I chatted with Mohammed, the Muslim owner, his blinking eyes settled on my pile of print, and then, slowly, rose to meet my face.
"English Defence League to become a political party" growled out from the countertop.
Squirming, I abandoned the change in my pocket and flung a note in his direction, the clatter of the till a welcome relief from the silence that had engulfed us. I slunk off toward the tube.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011...er-letter-full

[C. Flower]

Resignation letter from Richard Peppiatt:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011...er-letter-full

Great resignation letter and probably a fair view of how the Star operates. I laughed out loud a couple of time.

Clearly looking for his next job, but good luck to him.

[Griska]

The Star's reply claimed he was miffed at being passed over for a job.

Doesn't really matter, the letter is it's own reward.

[PaddyJoe]

Good time to bump this thread

Daily Star favourite Kelly Brook recently said in an interview: "I do Google myself. Not that often, though, and the stories are always rubbish. "There was a story that I'd seen a hypnotherapist to help me cut down on the time I take to get ready to go out. Where do they get it from?"

Maybe I should answer that one. I made it up. Not that it was my choice; I was told to. At 6pm and staring at a blank page I simply plucked it from my arse. Not that it was all bad. I pocketed a £150 bonus. You may have read some of my other earth-shattering exclusives.

'Michael Jackson to attend Jade Goody's funeral'. (He didn't.) 'Robbie pops 'pill at heroes concert'. (He didn't either.) 'Matt Lucas on suicide watch'. (He wasn't.) 'Jordan turns to Buddha.' (She might have, but I doubt it.)

I know showbiz is the sand on which your readership is built. And while I didn't write tittle-tattle dreaming of Pulitzers, I never knew I'd fear a Booker Prize nomination instead.

[PaddyJoe]

Richard Peppiatt at the Leveson Inquiry:

Richard Peppiatt told the Leveson Inquiry that he received threatening phone calls, text messages and emails after he leaked his outspoken resignation letter to the Guardian newspaper.

Mr Peppiatt said the messages included, "We're doing a kiss and tell on you", "You're a marked man until the day you die", and "RD will get ya" - a reference, he suggested, to Express Newspapers owner Richard Desmond.

"It worried me enough to get my girlfriend to move out for a couple of days because I didn't know at the time where it was coming from and the frequency, all through the night, got me thinking for her safety it's best that she lets this cool off," he told the inquiry.

The journalist said he was also emailed details of a voicemail left on his phone by a friend cancelling an arrangement to see Arsenal play Barcelona after the message was apparently deleted.

"I see no way that the information could have been known unless my voicemail had been accessed," he said in a witness statement.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ukne...im-agenda.html

[Spectabilis]

That letter is a must for anyone who has ever fantasised about what they might write in a letter of resignation. His summary of the Daily Star's approach to journalism as Daily Mail stories bundled up with press releases is a delight.

I am thinking of making an endowment to my local coffee shop to enable to get some decent paper everyday other than these red tops. I feel a need to wash my hands and it's not the ink that's the problem but the paper that never refused it