Archive for jan moir
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 [...]
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: an SEO lesson from the long tail of search results
The Google search statistics for people coming to my article about Jan Moir, Stephen Gately and the PCC over on Lib Dem Voice are a handy reminder of just how big the long tail is on many search terms. Overall the post has done well at picking up traffic via Google searches, but only 16% [...]
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, [...]
