Monthly Archives: September 2010

Daily Mail links Gordon Ramsay to Chef suicide

September 29, 2010 – 10:58 pm

Tweet I read this in the dead-tree version of the Daily Mail today and was struck at just how accusatory the article was: ‘Chef told by Gordon Ramsay that his business was about to ‘swim down the Hudson’ is found dead after jump into river‘. It seems to me that the Daily Mail is implying [...]

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‘Learning’ from America

September 29, 2010 – 10:19 pm

Tweet Keith Macdonald – famous in Tabloid-land for allegedly fathering 15 children by 14 different mothers – has not been put in prison for his actions. However, in America a similar man – by the name of Howard Veal – has been given a prison sentence, with the judge summing up: ‘You are the poster [...]

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Who is ‘Red Ed’ and why should he get married?

September 29, 2010 – 7:51 pm

Tweet The Daily Mail is anxious that we all know that Ed Miliband is not married to his partner (or as the Mail prefers to say: ‘partner’) as if this is supposed to shock us into thinking he is really evil. Just look at this headline: ‘Red Ed: I don’t do God, I don’t even [...]

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The Daily Mail on Asbestos

September 28, 2010 – 4:43 pm

Tweet Richard Wilson has an excellent guest post on the Guardian website today on how Daily Mail published an article by Christopher Booker that claimed white Asbestos was ‘relatively harmless’ and that the threat from such products was ‘vanishingly small’. Wilson calmly highlights what the Daily Mail reader probably does not know: What many reading [...]

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Jumping to conclusions…

September 27, 2010 – 9:36 pm

Tweet The Mail wasn’t alone in blaming ‘yobs’ for a ‘sick prank’, but I’m too busy to round up just how many news outlets churnalised this story so I’ll just focus on the Mail’s coverage: Followed up by this, just two days later: The Daily Mail is quick to point out that it was the [...]

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