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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 [...]
Moderating comments: lessons from the Daily Mail
Moderating comments is a pretty blunt instrument – either a comment appears or it doesn’t. For some people and some sites, that is fine because it suits their site and moderation preferences. However, it doesn’t suit everyone. For example, suppose you want to encourage discussion on complicated or sensitive issues but your threads are dominated [...]
CommentIsLinked@LDV: Vince Cable on the surveillance state
Vince Cable’s latest column for the Mail on Sunday is out and this time it’s about civil liberties:
A quarter of a century has passed since 1984, the titular year of George Orwell’s novel which described a world constantly spied upon by an all-powerful dictator, the fearsome Big Brother.
It never happened. Orwell’s nightmarish vision was realised, [...]
Daily Mail poll feels the heat of 1,500+ tweets
The Daily Mail website was running an online poll with the very Daily Mail question, “Should the NHS allow gipsies to jump the queue?” In what looks like a striking display of social media’s power, lots of messages sprung up on Twitter urging people to vote in the poll. A quick search I did on [...]
Nine out of ten people spied on by local authorities are innocent
From today’s Daily Mail, following up the story about the widespread using of snooping powers by councils (as covered yesterday by Home Office Watch):
Nine in ten of 10,000 spied on by councils using anti-terrorism powers are innocent
The revelation intensified the controversy over local councils using anti-terror powers to spy on those suspected of ‘crimes’ such [...]
Somehow I think that if this was a Lib Dem council, there would be a whole load of Tory bloggers hurling insults…
From the Daily Mail:
They’re never going to have to deal with a difficult route across country, or conquer the maze of an inner city.
In fact, the trickiest test of navigation they are likely to face is getting from one side of a field to the other.
But that hasn’t stopped council chiefs buying a set of [...]
Innovations in comment moderation