Mark Pack

A quick update to my post which pointed out how the media had comprehensively misreported findings about how many people are registered to vote, painting an unduly pessimistic picture. The Evening Standard at least has now corrected its report.  »

Earlier this week the Electoral Commission published a new report, The completeness and accuracy of electoral registers in Great Britain, looking at how electoral registration is working in the UK. Although it's been widely covered, the coverage has been very similar - taking the top line figures from the report and covering press release without digging in to what the report really says. So if we venture in to the inner reaches of the report, what do we find? »

It’s a small, but telling example. The Evening Standard ran a piece from Simon Jenkins, which included a bit of myth-recycling about what the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health had said about people clearing snow from outside their property. There were two problems. First, either Simon Jenkins or a sub-ed dropped the word “probably” making the quote [...] »

With the Evening Standard about to go free, getting hold of a printed copy will no longer be a matter of whether or not you want to pay for it from one of the numerous newsagents and sellers around London but instead a matter of whether or not you can find a free distributor who [...] »

Credit where credit's due: the Evening Standard was one of the media outlets which ran pieces wrongly reporting the TUC as wanting to ban high heels. So I pinged an email of complaint over to them, pointing out that in fact the TUC only wanted to ban the wearing of high heels being made mandatory [...] »