Monthly Archives: November 2011

Freedom for what? To kill young women?

November 19, 2011 – 11:42 am

Tweet As regular readers of this blog know, the Daily Mail believe that the vital importance of a free press is an excuse for anything they want to do. The confluence of reporting and commentary is so insidious and malevolent. Many newspapers are guilty but the Mail is the biggest culprit. For me, one of [...]

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Trust in the media

November 14, 2011 – 11:25 pm

Tweet YouGov has today published the results of a ‘Trust in the media’ survey and it is bad news for newspapers. The survey found that ‘this summer’s phone-hacking scandal has resulted in media mistrust among members the public’.  Here are some of the results: 64% of UK adults saw TV as the most trusted media [...]

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Some thoughts on press ‘freedom’

November 14, 2011 – 10:33 pm

Tweet The Leveson enquiry opened today with Lord Justice Leveson feeling the need to reiterate the tired line that a free press is of fundamental importance in ensuring that public figures and governments are held to account. Therefore what he wants to consider is not whether the press needs to have its freedom curtailed in [...]

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Here lies Winterval: 1998-2011?

November 8, 2011 – 8:55 pm

Tweet So, after a lot of resistance – distorted, truth-bending resistance – the Daily Mail have published a correction after Melanie Phillips claimed that: Christmas has been renamed in various places ‘Winterval’. Tabloid Watch has charted the great effort the complainant – regular Tabloid Watch reader James – went to in order for the Daily [...]

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