Quotes of the Week - Hugh Grant, Sir Alex Ferguson and Twitter being sued
Hugh Grant tells us what he really thinks of the tabloid press, Sir Alex Ferguson urges his players to stop being twits and an Israeli couple take inspiration from Facebook for the name of their newborn baby...
"So little do we need the tabloid press that if I won a big libel case against a tabloid I wouldn't [want money], I would want an assurance that they would never mention my name again. We don't need them. The sooner they go out of business the better. They rely almost entirely on stealing people's privacy."
Hugh Grant, forever a target for paps and hacks, continues his crusade against tabloid newspapers.
"You are Hugh Grant. This is a family newspaper. Sleazy low-lifes who believe they should keep the sordid exploitation of a woman prostitute private (just because they are rich and famous) are banned from reading the Daily Mirror.”
The Mirror's riposte to Grant's barbs is to ban him from reading the paper. Er, guys, something tells me he won't be that bothered, what with the whole 'I hope tabloids go bust' thing he's got going on. Just sayin'.
"How do you find the time to do that? There are a million things you can do in your life without that. Get yourself down to the library and read a book. Seriously. It is a waste of time."
Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson tells his players to stop tweeting and start reading.
“The US has a very different philosophy and I doubt whether the US courts will allow Twitter to be sued and I don’t think they will be too concerned."
Twitter is being sued after details of super injunctions banned from seeing the light of day were published by its users. Laywer Paul Jonson tells The Drum the social networking site will not be too concerned.
"The truth is that I have never given my daughter Botox, nor allowed her to get any type of waxing, nor is she a beauty pageant contestant.”
A beautician named Sheena Upton claims she was paid by The Sun newspaper to pose as 'Kerry Campbell' and pretend she injected her eight-year-old daughter with Botox.
"The Sun strongly denies any suggestion it solicited or knowingly published a false story regarding Kerry Campbell and her daughter. The article was published in good faith, in common with a large number of other news organisations around the world, after being received in full from a reputable UK news agency.”
The Sun strenuously denies Upton's allegations.
"While there is a great deal to do, I am convinced that if we attract new digital skills, adopt user-first principles and work collaboratively within government and with a wider, more agile supplier base, then we can improve how citizens interact with government."
Former Guardian digital honcho Mike Bracken reveals what he will be doing to justify his £142,000 a year salary as the government's new 'digital tsar'.
"Clarke is still of the political generation where, if a row blew up one day, you retreated and got your point across the next. It doesn’t work like that Ken."
Crisis PR man Paul Smith says a simple, immediate apology would have defused the row over justice secretary Ken Clarke's controversial rape comments.
"The decision - particularly regrettable in the current climate - to appoint a change manager who had to commute from the United States cannot be dismissed as an inconsequential gaffe."
A report by the Culture, Media and Sport Committee lambasts the BBC for hiring a consultant from the US to oversee its move from London to Salford.
“In our opinion it's the modern equivalent of the name Ahava [Love]. It's just my way of saying to my fantastic daughter, 'Love'."
Israeli Lior Adler tells a local newspaper that he has been inspired by Facebook to call his newborn daughter Like. There are no words.