Tag Archives: media narratives

Here lies Winterval: 1998-2011?

November 8, 2011 – 8:55 pm

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 Mail [...]

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Do computer games leave children with ‘dementia’?

October 14, 2011 – 7:41 pm

Daily Mail headline: ‘Computer games leave children with ‘dementia’ warns top neurologist’. The first two paragraphs of the article: Children’s brains could be left damaged and they could suffer temporary ‘dementia’ by playing computer games, a leading scientist has warned. Eminent neurologist Baroness Susan Greenfield said yesterday that spending time online gaming and browsing internet [...]

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Daily Telegraph reheats Daily Mail rubbish

October 10, 2011 – 10:11 pm

Last week the Daily Mail claimed that Thomas the Tank Engine had got rid of Christmas in an attempt to be politically correct. The article did seem to contradict this claim by including the following two paragraphs near the end: Hit Entertainment, the company behind the DVD, said: ‘It was put out some time ago. [...]

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Richard Peppiatt’s speech to the Leveson inquiry

October 8, 2011 – 10:46 am

Your must read article of the day, largely because it is someone from inside the newspaper industry confirming my own arguments about how media narratives are constructed and adhered to by all of the journalists working for a particular newspaper: In approximately 900 newspaper bylines I can probably count on fingers and toes the times [...]

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Daily Mail launches astonishing attack on OUR Christian heritage

October 7, 2011 – 11:59 am

The Daily Mail have today been accused of ‘an attack on Christianity’ after choosing to use the controversial politically-correct C.E. date format – showing blatant disregard for the AD/BC system based around the year of OUR lord. Critics suggest that a Diktat has been issued by senior staff to all journalists to scrap the use [...]

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