Friday, 18 December 2009

Christmas poll: Choose your favourite press funny of 2009

On HoldtheFrontPage today we are running our nominations for the Top Ten Friday Funnies of 2009, featuring the very best in UK press cock-ups, bizarre news judgements, unintentional double entendres and sheer silliness from the past 12 months.

Now we want your help in choosing the ultimate winner.

The following poll will remain open for the next fortnight and the results will be published on the site early in the New Year.

Click here for a recap on the contenders.

Jan 5 update: Thanks for taking part. The poll is now closed.

Thursday, 10 December 2009

O Christmas Tree....



This rather sorry image was captured in a regional press newsroom earlier today. We'll spare the blushes of the newspaper concerned, but the journalist who sent it to us seemed to think it summed up his company's year.....

Thursday, 3 December 2009

All in the line of duty….

An Israeli sports reporter got more than he bargained for when he went to cover a basketball match on Tuesday.

Irmi Olmert, the brother of the country's former Prime Minister Ehud, apparently took exception to something the reporter had said on-air on the Channel 5 sports network.

Video footage shows the pair arguing followed by shots of the reporter laid flat out on the court although the punch itself is not filmed.

It's not the first time a reporter has been set upon – all in the line of duty of course – so over to the Daily Mirror website for a video round-up of the Top 10 attacks on reporters caught on camera.