Category Archives: Terrible journalism

Vile Product

Tweet I genuinely didn’t think it was possible for me to have more contempt for the Mail. It turns out I was completely and utterly wrong: I think that pretty much everyone who’s heard this story of the Philpot family will have been deeply saddened and upset. It is a very bizzare tale of a [...]

‘Could Spider-Man become a reality?’ asks Mail Online

Tweet For some reason the Mail Online editor has filed this article under ‘Science’: ‘Could Spider-Man become a reality? Bizarre white cobweb found on nuclear waste that could have come from a ‘mutant’ spider’. The article – remember Dacre today telling the Leveson inquiry that the Mail employs some of the finest journalists around – [...]

The MailOnline’s spinning moral compass

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, [...]

Freedom for what? To kill young women?

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 [...]

Here lies Winterval: 1998-2011?

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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