This hypocritical bumbling fool truly astounded me with her disgusting piece of "journalism" in which she found it necessary to "retrace" Bristol woman Joanna Yeates' last few hours leading up to her death. Because as if it's not enough that her parents have to go through reconstructions of Joanna's last movements with the police, Jones felt they should have to put up with a controversial idiot, who just wants to sell newspapers, as well.
I don't want to ruin all the fun for you as I've attached the link to the end of this blog, so if you've not already had the pleasure of reading it (or if you simply want to amaze yourself again) now's your chance.
However I do have to pull a few of Jones' most memorable quotes. First of all the future Pulitzer Prize winner passes comment on Joanna's home town of Bristol - referring to it as "upwardly mobile" as a result of the fact that it boasts a Habitat and a Space NK Beauty Emporium. Well call in the hounds, who would ever have thought that in a town as well-to-do as Bristol, with its fancy shops, that a young woman could be in any sort of danger.
Incredibly, her next observation is that the bar, in which Joanna spent her last few hours having drinks with friends, is "OK, but ordinary". She then goes on to say that she wishes Joanna "had spent what were probably her last hours on earth somewhere lovelier". I'd like to applaud you Liz Jones, I'm quite sure you missed your calling in life and would have had a great career as a Family Liason Officer. What a great comfort you would be to her parents. Naturally that is the only wish they must have for their dead daughter. That she spent her last few hours in a nicer bar.
I'm astounded that this vile woman even manages to get her articles published in a national newspaper.
Jones also feels the need to comment on the food served at the bar, citing it as "awful" but is quite pleased to note that the young women working behind the bar are "sweet, with huge wary eyes". Well that's nice to know. Another great comfort to Joanna's parents.
Mystic Liz is convinced that Joanna was in search of "a lovely life, something above the ordinary". How did she reach this conclusion? Why, because of the "upmarket pizza" the young architect bought on her walk home. Why else would anyone buy a pizza - certainly not because they're hungry.
Reading this article really upset me on a number of levels. I can't believe that Liz Jones would even consider cashing in on such a tragedy like this in order to write such a vile column, and what is even more upsetting is that her editors deemed it worthy of publication. Surely they knew the sort of backlash it would receive? Or was that perhaps the point? Using the tragic death of a young woman to stir up publicity and sell more newspapers? Whatever their reason behind printing such crude writing, I think it's a disgrace.
Jones goes on to tell of her shock that a man would be able to stop his car on a narrow country lane and struggle with a body, "without being beeped at and told to get out of the way" - as she was. THAT'S what surprised her? Not the fact that an innocent young woman was killed in cold blood? Just when you thought she couldn't stoop any lower.
As a final insult to Joanna's memory, she insinuates that the killer didn't even want to pay the 50p toll charge to get across the suspension bridge and that's the reason why he took the longer route from Joanna's flat to the location where her body was dumped.
Personally I'd like to applaud Liz Jones - she has actually managed to do what quite a lot of today's "journalists" have being trying to do for quite some time: take journalism to a brand new all-time low. I really hope she's proud of herself.
Here is her quite astounding article, published on 17th January 2011. Below that is the absolutely genius rebuttal from The Daily Mash.
The Astounding Liz Jones
The Daily Mash
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