And it’s bollocks.
Private Eye editor Ian Hislop has expressed his thanks to “everyone for their concern” following an incident which saw the rear window of a taxi he was travelling in smashed.
It was initially thought the London black taxi had been hit by a bullet, but the Metropolitan Police have confirmed there is “no evidence of a firearms discharge at this time”.
All the news outlets were claiming that Hislop was shot at. Why anyone would bother is another matter. But that was the story. Now, apparently not.
“Initial indications suggest a mechanical fault might have caused the window to shatter. We await further tests.”
The news here is that there is no news. ‘Taxi window breaks‘ is hardly headline stuff. Attempted assassination of a minor celebrity, on the other hand… The MSM really are credulous, gullible fools and this story shows it.
I was in a bus once when it took a corner a bit sharpish and a pillar box broke a side window. No-one was hurt, no news article appeared, and this was decades before social media. No celebrities were involved. Did it happen?
Sounds like someone tried to kill you. You can still go to the papers even after all these years and they will believe you.