Tag Archives: celebrity drivel

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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Children of famous parents and their right to privacy

January 2, 2012 – 10:19 pm

Tweet Another thing I would like to see from the Leveson Inquiry is the conclusion that plastering the faces of young children across newspapers and their websites simply because they have been born to famous parents is utterly unacceptable. The PCC code of practice does mention Children and states: Editors must not use the fame, [...]

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Press reform: the challenge of addiction

July 6, 2011 – 11:41 pm

Tweet It’s becoming increasingly clear that a substantial section of our press is no longer serving to report the news, but rather functions as a full-blown arm of the entertainment industry. Accuracy, journalistic integrity and moral decency have been replaced by the overwhelming desire to sell as many newspapers and as much advertising space in [...]

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‘Recycling’ or how extreme capitalism works

June 26, 2011 – 10:42 am

Tweet One of the frequently recycled stories that appear on the Mail website that really bothers me is the one where person x wears item x of clothing for a second time. Sometimes this is referred to as a fashion ‘faux pas’ (one of the favourite phrases of Mail hacks), sometimes as recycling but it [...]

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Anti-journalism

March 28, 2011 – 10:03 pm

Tweet ‘Facebook puts vulnerable children at risk of depression, warn doctors‘ [istyosty link]. From the article: ‘A lot of what’s happening is actually very healthy, but it can go too far,’ [Dr Megan Moreno] said… Parents shouldn’t get the idea that using Facebook ‘is going to somehow infect their kids with depression,’ she said. Too [...]

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