Rob, Rambling - A lot of things interest me...

All three tabloids splashed a big picture of Cheryl Tweedy (is she still technically Cole? I don’t keep up with this kind of thing) making a first public appearance since a bout of malaria.

Surprisingly, only two of them had the gall to label it an EXCLUSIVE…

Just to illustrate the complete nonsense that is the fashion of slapping ‘Exclusive’ onto a newspaper story, both the Sun and the Star had that word on their identical front-page stories today.

As it happens, the Star is actually a bit more forthcoming about what happened. In their story, they say that Cole shouted at fans from a balcony at the clinic in France where he is receiving treatment for a broken ankle. The entire story is based around a single quote, one paragraph in length.

The Sun, however, uses the same quote, but nonsensically claims that he was “telling The Sun”. Using the word ‘exclusive’ also makes it sound like they got a sit-down interview, something you can tell they didn’t by the lack of any other fresh material/quotes later in the article.

Well, save for the obligatory “source” who says something that sounds exactly like what the writer wanted to hear. Funny coincidence, that.