Monthly Archives: January 2010

A petition to the Editors’ Code of Practice Committee

January 18, 2010 – 12:21 pm

The Petition As you may have heard via Tim Ireland of Bloggerheads fame a small group of bloggers have submitted five suggestions to the Press Complaints Commission’s [PCC] Editors’ Code of Practice Committee for their annual review of the PCC’s Editors’ Code of Practice. It has been submitted in the form of a petition – [...]

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The Daily Mail Distortion of Terrance Gavan

January 16, 2010 – 12:23 pm

I’ve just finished reading Nick Davies Flat Earth news and it is a brilliant book that ends with a chapter on the Daily Mail that I really wish every Daily Mail reader was forced to read. In it Davies describes the Daily Mail selecting stories based on what readers want to read, serving up any [...]

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The Daily Mail face of crime

January 11, 2010 – 12:28 pm

The teenager who poured bleach over a woman in a revenge attack for being told to be quiet in the cinema has had their photo released to journalists. Here is the photo: Here are some of the comments on the Daily Mail article: Diversity is our strength. Isn’t it? – George S, Crawley UK, 11/1/2010 [...]

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The ‘semantics’ of climate change

January 8, 2010 – 12:31 pm

A new year, same old Littlejohn. Littlejohn is now recycling his columns to such an extent that he is beyond parody. Today’s column (Mandelson to run the Jubilee? God save the Queen!) makes his normal crass, prejudiced stereotypes: Peter Mandelson is called ‘Mandy’ is drawn as camp as possible in the obligatory crap cartoon – [...]

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Flat Earth News

January 7, 2010 – 12:35 pm

Well, thanks to some trouble with my old webhosts I have been offline for a while but as you can see, all has been restored and here we are again, trawling the Daily Mail and other newspapers to see what is happening in their worlds today. My better half very kindly bought me a copy [...]

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