Tag Archives: Daily Telegraph

In the media spotlight

February 5, 2011 – 12:10 pm

Tweet Last month the Daily Mail wrote a worried piece titled: ‘How will children ever grow up if schools won’t let them take risks?‘ which was followed by the following in bold: ‘A passionate attack on politically correct nannying by the inspirational teacher sacked for allowing pupils to go’. Not only does this highlight Stewart [...]

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Winterval myth still alive and kicking

December 27, 2010 – 9:53 am

Tweet The Daily Telegraph was one of the worst culprits for repeating the Winterval myth and it has repeated it yet again. This time it was the turn of Peter Oborne – the Daily Telegraph’s chief commentator – who writes a very formulaic piece on how wonderful it is that a government is finally standing [...]

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Ink bomb defused ’17 minutes before it was due to go off’

November 4, 2010 – 6:32 pm

Tweet According to reports in the Daily Mail, Mirror, The Sun and the Daily Telegraph one of the ink bombs was defused just ’17 minutes before it was due to go off’. The information was disseminated by the French interior Brice Hortefeux via French TV. The Mail, Mirror and Sun all fail to make any [...]

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The Unacceptable state of medical reporting

October 18, 2010 – 7:13 pm

Tweet A recent study found that when compression-only CPR was conducted by bystanders with the assistance of a dispatcher the survival rate of victims suffering from cardiac arrest improved. The NHS Behind the headlines team point out that the researchers ‘do not advocate from their findings that people should make a deliberate decision to avoid [...]

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Duncan Bannatyne now wrong about the Equality Act in the Telegraph

October 13, 2010 – 11:39 pm

Tweet Duncan Bannatyne wrote a piece of ill-informed outrage over the new Equality Act for the Daily Mail which was taken apart superbly by Darren Newman, an employment expert. Whenever you are knowledgeable about a certain subject you suffer the misfortune of knowing how terribly poor the media coverage is of that subject – and [...]

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