Monthly Archives: July 2010

A lack of perspective

July 22, 2010 – 9:22 am

Today the Daily Mail are claiming that ‘Billie Piper blows smoke in toddler’s face as actress mum enjoys a roll-up‘, yet when you look at the picture you can clearly see that this is not the case: Again, such a blatant lie that even a cursory glance at the picture demonstrates, so why bother? Do [...]

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Daily Mail Dosing

July 21, 2010 – 2:08 pm

The repitition of writing about Daily Mail ‘journalism’ makes me realise that I so often start a post in exactly the same way. I always seem to start with the old cliche that just when you think they could not get any worse, they do. However, this is not done for effect, it is written [...]

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It is not about truth

July 20, 2010 – 2:06 pm

I often write about how Daily Mail readers swallow any old rubbish if it suits their prejudices – even the ‘stories’ that are nothing more than a completely dishonest headline and the article clearly states that the truth is completely different attract legions of outraged comments from Mail readers. Yet the current top story on [...]

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Momentum

July 18, 2010 – 6:33 pm

There have been some good talks recently instigated by Tim Ireland over at Bloggerheads at revitalising some old websites and creating some new ones to better promote the work done by those who blog about the media. In particular it has the aim of having a website for each major tabloid newspaper that will appear [...]

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Daily Mail and horrific deaths

July 17, 2010 – 11:42 pm

I’m not sure if it is just me, or has the Daily Mail been making more effort to report in great, lurid detail more and more terrible deaths? It seems to me that thousands of people die across the UK each day for a variety of reasons and the vast majority of these deaths are [...]

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