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According to the Daily Mail, I’m a foreigner
Given the Mail on Sunday’s story casting aspertions on Nick Clegg for not being properly British in their eyes (“His wife is Spanish, his mother Dutch, his father half-Russian and his spin doctor German. Is there ANYTHING British about Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg?”) now seems a good time to revive a post I wrote [...]
Daily Mail: big boost for Lib Dems in poll – but editorial line even more striking
There’s straight-forward good news for the Liberal Democrats in today’s Daily Mail:
A Harris poll for the Daily Mail, the first in-depth survey of the public response, showed him decisively ahead of David Cameron and Gordon Brown on measures of energy, honesty and strength.
The survey of over 1,000 people who watched the clash found 32 [...]
The Daily Mail song
Music, satire and the Daily Mail mixed together to make this great film: Now I’m off to bin all my pen tops.
Facebook vs Daily Mail: In the online age, is rewriting a story sufficient?
At one level the legal threats by Facebook against the Daily Mail are fairly straight forward: newspaper runs horror story about a firm, firm says story is all wrong and threatens to sue for libel. At another level though this story highlights how much difference there is about correcting a story in the online sphere. [...]
Did all the complaints to the PCC over Jan Moir achieve something?
It’s a fair question to ask: lots of complaints made over Jan Moir’s piece on the death of Stephen Gately, none upheld.
However, as Enemies of Reason points out, that isn’t the only measure of success:
But I would like to hope – hope against hope – that the storm the Daily Mail found itself in after [...]
Julie Spence: intriguing new appointment at the Press Complaints Commission
The news that Cambridgeshire Chief Constable Julie Spence has been appointed to the Press Complaints Commission (PCC) is likely to divide people. Depending on your point of view, Julie Spence either has fed just the sort of whipped up fears of immigrants stories based on flawed ‘facts’ that the tabloids so love (and so will [...]
Jan Moir and the power of social media: more complaints in one weekend than in five years
The latest about Jan Moir’s Daily Mail column on Stephen Gately from today’s Guardian: The Press Complaints Commission has received 21,000 complaints about Jan Moir’s article about Stephen Gately since Friday – more complaints in a single weekend than the regulator has received in total in the past five years. Welcome news also that the [...]
Jan Moir: the dilemma for the PCC (and what you should say in your complaint)
The reaction to Jan Moir’s article about the death of Stephen Gately has been widespread and swift. Fuelled primarily by Twitter and Facebook, complaints about homophobia flooded in on the Daily Mail, the Press Complaints Commission (PCC) and the firms who were unlucky enough to have their adverts appearing on the page. The headline was changed, [...]
The curious case of Iain Dale, the Daily Mail and the missing comments
Today’s Ephriam Hardcastle column in the Daily Mail made the sort of snide unpleasant comments about Iain Dale that you expect of homophobes. It’s generated a lot of hostile comment around the internet, including this post from Stephen Glenn, people being encouraged by Kate Bevan via Twitter to complain to the Press Complaints Commission and [...]
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