Monthly Archives: January 2012

Mail on Sunday encourages us to ‘forget global warming’

January 30, 2012 – 1:00 am

Tweet Apparently the Met Office and the University of East Anglia Climatic Research Unit have released some figures that will prove ‘an inconvenient challenge’ for the ‘supposed “consensus” on man-made global warming’. Naturally, the Mail on Sunday online article provides not one link to what it is they are actually talking about (seriously, the busiest [...]

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More on The New Journalist

January 19, 2012 – 10:21 pm

Tweet This is just a quick message to all those taking an interest in The New Journalist project. Things are progressing well, a good range of writers have been in touch and the website coding has been completed. The project is now waiting for the following: Completion of the website – mainly installing widgets, setting [...]

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The MailOnline’s spinning moral compass

January 17, 2012 – 9:12 pm

Tweet The MailOnline has become an increasing flesh-fest of celebrities, reality TV stars and anyone else vaguely worthy of a bikini-shot mention. However, at the same time the Daily Mail website retains the hypocrisy that has been a long-time feature of the print edition; as ever it is a case as do as we preach, [...]

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MailOnline and children, again

January 14, 2012 – 12:51 pm

Tweet This week saw Daily Mail picture editor Paul Silva face the Leveson inquiry. During the questioning he was asked about the privacy of children, here is a summary from the free speech blog: Silva agreed with a celebrity asking for privacy for their children, and that he “would go along with whatever they ask”. [...]

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New Journalism project

January 11, 2012 – 11:18 pm

Tweet Those of you who follow me on Twitter will probably know that I have created a new website called ‘The New Journalist’ and that I’m looking for writers and contributors. The basic idea is this: I have blogged about the terrible state of the UK media for a few years now and whilst I [...]

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