In its heydey, Metro magazine had a spot called Vileness Corner, where it limelighted various (usually unintentionally) filthy headlines or sentences published in newspapers and magazines.
The About Town liftout of today’s Sunday Star Times (only inserted in copies sold in Auckland) has a headline made for Vileness Corner, one so deliberately filthy and just plain bad it made me blush and be glad my children are unlikely to see it.
JAGERMEISTER MONEYSHOT “IN YO FACE” PARTY
I can only hope that whichever news executive signed off the page containing that piece of filth, above a story about a porn star not appearing on the catwalk at some Dorkland function, has no idea what it means. Those who do, please keep it to yourself.
Its publication in this awful rag is inexplicable given the fuss recently when an entire page was torn by hand from every single copy of the pre-printed Sunday magazine after the powers-that-be noticed something not even as filthy in a column written by magazine editor Emily Simpson.
David Farrar wrote about that episode recently and even linked to a copy of the removed page, so you can see for yourself. Whoever is responsible for today’s smut deserves the sack.
1 Comment
April 27, 2008 at 9:07 pm
I’m looking at the pages you’re talking about, Poneke. There isn’t anything here I can see that’s over the top. Aja Rock is strutting her stuff in brief hip wrap, Nicky Watson is adequately clad.
Like you, I thought the “moneyshot” term was a bit sleazy, but a lot of people seem to be using it these days without realising where it comes from. I’ve heard it used in sporting commentary this year for both tennis and golf….to my surprise. But I haven’t mentioned it to anyone because I’d rather people not speculate as to how I know any other meanings.