That Michael Jackson has had plastic surgery. “In related news, President Chirac said the U.S. had failed to show convincing proof that Jennifer Lopez has a big ass.”
BAGHDAD BROADCASTING CORPORATION WATCH: A special radio World Service arts program has been exploring the question of whether American culture, in the words of one French critic, “is a non-culture, a non-civilisation, just a way of life.” A radio comedy show gets its anti-French jokes edited out by BBC honchos. (Sample: “What do you call a Frenchman advancing on Baghdad? A salesman.”) Meanwhile, a viewer backlash is mercifully under way. Anger at anti-U.S. spin and bias has provoked “one of the largest reactions from viewers ever recorded.”
MRS MUGABE GOES SHOPPING: In Paris. Where else is the wife of an African dictator supposed to buy the essentials? With two Mercedes’ full of bodyguards to help her carry the shopping bags.
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