Mic Wright
Bad Press Awards
Recognising the Worst of the Worst of British Journalism
Janet Daley Scoops the Leopard Print Ribbon for Tragically Late Epiphanies
One of the few upsides of social media is that it makes it possible to pinpoint when modern proverbs first spring to life.
On 16 October 2015, Twitter user @Cavalorn tweeted: “‘I never thought leopards would eat MY face’, sobs woman who voted for the Leopards Eating People’s Faces Party”. In doing so, they gifted to all of humanity a handy way to sum up the pricking of a particular bubble of naive self-interest.
This month’s Bad Press Awards winner is a quintessential example of someone discovering that they’ve been supporting the Leopards Eating People’s Faces Party and that the consequences have finally arrived.
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