Monthly Archives: October 2010

Kendall Jenner / Kardashian: Mailbait extraordinaire

October 31, 2010 – 11:10 am

Tweet Following on from my post on how the Mail hypocritically cashes in on publishing vast quantities of semi-nude photos of celebrities, all the while wagging their fingers and shaking their heads in disgust it is even more disturbing when the girl featured is only 14 years old. One of their favourite female celebrities is [...]

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Shameless attempts to cash in

October 30, 2010 – 1:12 pm

Tweet I’m currently building a new blog that will attempt to draw together some of the narratives discussed on this blog into essays that have a bit more depth, that can start to draw together blog posts into a proper exploration of how the tabloid press functions. One of the key ideas that I want [...]

By Uponnothing | Posted in Terrible journalism | Tagged , , , | Comments (3)

An important question about the MailOnline iPhone app

October 29, 2010 – 4:44 pm

Tweet MailOnline has finally launched their iPhone App whilst Android and other mobile platforms ‘on their way’. The blurb for the app makes pretty depressing reading: ‘Now you need NEVER be without your favourite website again‘. What exactly can the app do for you? well it can provide you with exactly the same crap that [...]

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The same old stories

October 29, 2010 – 11:38 am

Tweet It has been another busy week for media disinformation on a range of their favourite topics. The Daily Mail has made more extremely misleading claims about migration, this time attacking skilled workers by implying that only 1 in 4 of them actually work in a ‘top job’. The figures in fact could only confirm [...]

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Bad Journalism

October 28, 2010 – 3:23 pm

Tweet As has been highlighted before on this blog the Daily Mail is particularly adept at exploiting the PCC’s ruling that ‘headlines are not actually part of a story’ and hence do not have to be accurate. I was browsing through the brilliant Ben Goldacre’s Bad Science blog this morning and found an excellent article highlighting [...]

By Dralienfromzog | Posted in Uncategorized | Comments (2)
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