Monthly Archives: November 2010

The Daily Mail knows ‘Why suicide bombers are Muslim’

November 30, 2010 – 10:21 pm

Tweet I haven’t had time to post much recently as I’ve been busy with a project that should be finished at some point this week/end. I’m perhaps also running out of patience with a media that will repeat any rubbish as long as it pushes a few buttons or causes a bit of controversy. If [...]

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The answer to the rhetorical question is always likely to be ‘NO’

November 23, 2010 – 10:07 pm

Tweet The Daily Mail headline: ‘Is wi-fi radiation killing off trees? Study blames computer signals for dying leaves‘. The claims made at the start of the article: As if our magnificent trees didn’t have enough problems, they’re now being threatened by our emails… Now researchers say radiation from wi-fi networks that enable our burgeoning online [...]

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In Osborne we trust…

November 22, 2010 – 3:17 pm

Tweet So, the Irish economy is going to be supported by billions of pounds of loan from a central EU pot, along with around £7bn directly from the British government. At this point Football365′s Mediawatch has drawn attention to this gem of an article written by George Osborne for the Times in 2006: A generation [...]

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Daily Mail invent Al Qaeda link

November 19, 2010 – 4:18 pm

Tweet The Daily Mail has claimed this in a headline today: ‘Was it a training exercise? Loch Lomond forest blast is linked to Al Qaeda‘, which immediately begs the question: who has made this ‘link’? The answer, unsurprisingly is they have. Calum Murrray, Strathclyde Police Chief Superintendent, has stated clearly that: At the moment it [...]

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Goverment provides a grant, council gets the blame

November 16, 2010 – 12:49 am

Tweet Another council has become the victim of Daily Mail lies: ‘Fury as council spends £900,000 on refurbishing a travellers’ site‘. The article claims that: A council came under fire today over plans to spend nearly £900,000 refurbishing a travellers’ site. Conservative-controlled Cambridgeshire County Council owns Blackwell Farm, a 15 plot site near Milton, which [...]

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