Monthly Archives: June 2010

How the Daily Mail covers the EU

June 30, 2010 – 10:14 am

They invent something that the EU is supposedly about to enforce on us: ‘EU to ban selling eggs by the dozen: Shopkeepers are told all food must be weighed and sold by the kilo‘. Then, when the EU respond to such inane and invented slurs and make it perfectly clear the Daily Mail is talking [...]

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The ‘Safety brigade’

June 29, 2010 – 5:18 pm

A charming piece of guff on the Mail website today: ‘Do you remember your first car? ‘Yes, it cost £150 in 1956 – and I’m still driving it‘. Contains a rather bizarre dig at the ‘safety brigade’ from the car’s owener: He drove it car on the roads of France soon after Caroline was born [...]

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Reporting in ‘good faith’, again

June 28, 2010 – 5:43 pm

The Daily Mail have jumped on some figures obtained by the Daily Telegraph from the Metropolitan Police on black crime statistics: ‘Black men ‘to blame for most violent city crime’… but they’re also the victims‘. As with most Daily Mail journalism this article – from Rebecca Camber – is a copy-and-paste job from the Daily [...]

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A lie about Tesco breaking the law

June 27, 2010 – 2:34 pm

Another classic misleading headline – although misleading is a bit euphemistic, it is a clear lie from the Daily Mail: Has the practice of selling lager below cost price now law? No, of course not as the content of the article clearly states: Tesco has emerged as the only supermarket to be ‘caught’ pricing its [...]

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Fact-checking and ‘good faith’

June 27, 2010 – 2:03 pm

A while back  I posted a blog on the charming story of a pig that had a phobia of mud, and pointed out that it was in fact a story completely made up to sell sausages and promote a campaign for the fairer pricing of pork. I linked to the PR company which was using [...]

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