‘Singer Lily Allen: 150 dead in Grenfell inferno’
‘Police Commissioner ‘HOPES the death toll won’t reach TRIPLE figures as 600 feared to have been in Grenfell’
‘Locals claiming 100 bodies taken to ONE hospital as protests mount over lack of tenants register’
‘Furious local resident claims Kensington & Chelsea Council will be paying for FIVE HUNDRED FUNERALS’
Lily Allen talks to Channel 4. YouTube. Fair use.
These headlines would sell more papers than anything any British news editor has printed so far. If Lily Allen claims a fireman told her the death toll is three times the government’s figure, it doesn’t mean it’s the truth. But it does mean the most incredible front page splash the British tabloids have had in a long time.
But these aren’t the headlines in The Mail, The Sun, or The Times this week. Why not? The profit-seeking ‘run it now and pay the legal bills afterwards’ tabloid media to which we’ve grown accustomed are now not printing the headlines that would sell the most papers. This needs some attention.
