Thanks to The Observer for paying tribute to our Poverty Issue.
Focusing on crime in Nottingham, it looks like The Observer interviewed and photographed the same people we did, and then wrote pretty much the same things that we wrote.
Just compare their intro to ours. Sounds similar, no?
See the kid with the samurai sword? You might recognise him wearing a bandana here. BTW: We hope they got release forms signed by his parents, because when we checked he wasn’t 18.
Later on in the article, the author writes: "Another London magazine has been up in the past, offered them a few hundred quid to get their knives out for some photos, asked them if they can find some guns to pose with."
We can categorically state that we DID NOT offer anybody a few hundred quid to get their knives out.
Hey, we’re not saying that a national newspaper has completely ripped us off. We’re saying imitation is the sincerest form of flattery! Thanks guys!
They also reported on the same strip club as us.
Reader Comments
January 29th, 2007
3:38 pm
they went to the same strip club as you guys and talked to the same gang?
January 29th, 2007
3:57 pm
I can vouch for the fact that Vice is tightfisted and would not pay anyone more than 49 pence for anything
January 29th, 2007
4:17 pm
Yeah, i read this yesterday and thought it was pretty similar.
January 29th, 2007
7:16 pm
fuck the observer - coming strqaigt from the undeground
January 29th, 2007
10:14 pm
i feel used and dirty, raped even..
January 30th, 2007
12:54 am
What? its a surprise that Vice is ripped off? Since the whole deal with Vice is that they do everything first its scandalous they don´t get ripped off more…
In fact, it seems like the commenting-forum is a perfect reflection of vice (if just a millionth as funny and eloquent) What with the “First!” and the attempts to shock…
January 30th, 2007
1:20 pm
the guardian/observer is full of smug white middle class liberals who think they’re saints… awful people. it’s like a british new york times kinda thing a ling. they should be embarrassed by force
February 1st, 2007
3:26 pm
Yeh… like you’ve never ripped off The Observer…
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