Private Eye
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Private Eye is a British satirical fortnightly magazine, founded in 1961. Its contents are a mixture of spoof news items, straight reporting and investigative journalism, cartoons, and an esoteric range of classified advertisements[1]. It has a particular penchant for gossip about media and political figures. It has no overt political line, being to content to mock all British political parties for careerism and hypocrisy. The magazine uses a number of running gags; one of the most frequently employed, where the writers of an item run out of steam, is to break off by directing readers to a non-existent page, and this has the (contd. p94)
