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Bias

January 25, 2011 – 10:46 pm

According to his website – currently not operational for some reason – Richard Littlejohn: has no party political affiliations and believes journalists should be in a state of permanent opposition and scepticism, opposed to vested interests of all political persuasions and fiercely protective of civil liberties. His job is to sit at the back and [...]

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Ego

December 21, 2010 – 10:38 am

I’ve been spending a little bit of time reading Richard Littlejohn’s website recently. It is a strange experience because the website spends a lot of time building up Richard Littlejohn as a serious social commentator, a brave crusader of free speech who is prepared to say the things that no-one else will. You then head [...]

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An irritable response to a blogger

December 15, 2010 – 11:16 pm

I was minding my own business this afternoon when I was tweeted by someone who had suggested that ‘you should put a point of view not say the opposition make stuff up‘ and it linked to their blogpost discussing my recent post on the latest Daily Mail attack on immigrants. Basically, the writer of said [...]

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Facebook cannot commit crime

December 13, 2010 – 11:35 pm

Primly Stable blogged earlier about how MailOnline editor Martin Clarke mentioned in a recent speech that 10 per cent of Mail Online’s ‘UK traffic now comes in via Facebook, making it the biggest source of traffic for the site after Google’. I have covered why the Daily Mail likes to criticise Facebook to generate extra [...]

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Some new media myths

December 13, 2010 – 9:26 pm

As you can probably guess I spent a lot of time researching and writing my Winterval essay. Throughout the process I often just sat there, annoyed and depressed with each utterly ignorant repetition of something that was always utterly untrue – and obviously untrue. Fittingly via Twitter I was informed that on the day I [...]

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