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Why I (still) read the Daily Mail
Four years on, I’m still a Daily Mail reader (even if they think I’m a foreigner). Here’s an updated explanation. I once rang the Daily Mail to mildly complain about a story I had a connection with. The journalist I spoke to put me on hold while he conferred with a colleague. At least, he thought he [...]
I don’t cause cancer, I’m not in a bikini and I’ve not come to tax your petrol. But I am in the Daily Mail
Here you go: [Nick Clegg's] view was backed by Mark Pack, co-editor of the blog Lib Dem Voice, who said the losses [in party support] were recoverable if the party continues to win policy successes, such as accelerating towards the £10,000 tax allowance. Speaking on the same programme earlier in the day, Mr Pack said: [...]
Daily Mail sued by Carina Trimingham
The Press Gazette reports: MP Chris Huhne’s partner Carina Trimingham today brought a High Court damages action over a “cataclysmic interference” with her private life. The PR adviser, whose adulterous affair with the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change became public in June 2010 – with Huhne leaving his wife of 26 years [...]
Ministry of Justice’s paperwork overdose hits the media
My story Paperwork gone mad at the Ministry of Justice has hit the media today in a nice piece from Matthew Parris in The Times and in a long piece in the Daily Mail. If the latter’s piece sounds rather familiar when you read it, that’d be because the wording bears a remarkable resemblance to [...]
Mail blunders over Twitter, again
Fresh from the Mail’s triumph of journalism where it exposed an MP sending tweets in the middle of the night (only a pedant would point out that the Mail’s journalist read the time wrong and in fact the tweets were sent during the day), we have the Mail’s splash on how Steve Jobs may be [...]
Exclusive poll: newspaper hostility makes voters more likely to back Lib Dems
A poll carried out exclusively for Lib Dem Voice shows that opposition from the Daily Mail, The Sun and Daily Telegraph to the Liberal Democrats actually makes people more likely to vote for the party.
Asked the impact on their voting intention of those papers opposing Nick Clegg becoming Prime Minister, 15% said it made them [...]
It's not just Party A vs Party B, it's the public vs the newspapers
In the past if you read something in a newspaper that you disagreed with, that was pretty much it. A very small number of people were moved to write to the paper and a few very rarely moved to stop buying it. But it was essentially a personal, private matter – grumble a bit, mention [...]
Mail readers angry at paper’s Nazi slur
This is how two Daily Mail readers reacted to today’s attack on Nick Clegg by the paper (via Radio 5):
Transcript:
Tom: The way media interpret these things is really important. I contacted you because of the reaction my parents had given what was published this morning. They are Daily Mail readers. They are Telegraph readers. They [...]
