This is merely pathetic, you'll say. The other example is much worse because this sort of ignorant, contemptuous usage is ingrained in English clich . I saw a report in a newspaper, which talks about you as 'the ultimate linguistic nightmare'. This building is referred to as the ogre's castle. This is the pot calling the kettle black.
Newspapers are notorious for bad English, still more so for slipshod and partial reporting.
As we all know, everything that can be criticised in England is always the fault of Bruxelles. This is not just bad, biased, pejorative language, but the deliberate manipulation of opinion. Similarly, in the press, Germans are always called Teutons, and they are always 'Strut'. So that the Chancellor, Herr Kohl, the heavy-footed plod familiar to us, was said to be Strutting. The week before, it had been Schr der.