4:06PM Clem Bastow | The prize for moronic entertainment news coverage of the day goes to the Daily Telegraph (surprise, surprise!) for their efforts in reporting the
shooting of a film in Sydney, Cedar Boys, that aims to challenge the public’s misconceptions of young Lebanese men.
Sounds like an interesting project, doesn’t it? Except you wouldn’t really know it from the way the Tele promoted the story, which can really be summed up by this picture their art dept whipped up for the piece (the flick happens to also star Rachael Taylor from Transformers in an incidental role.) :
It could just be us (though it’s the Tele, so it probably isn’t), but this whole thing makes us think of the brainstorm that went into this piece, which probably went along the lines of: “Okay team, we need to do a ‘think piece’ on this low budget movie about Lebanese youths in Sydney, except no one wants to read about those scary Lebs. Anyone got any ideas? Yes, you up the back… Why yes, let’s make sure everyone knows that it’s okay, there is a hot Anglo woman in the cast!”
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