And why are on earth they showing a picture of the offspring of a single mother?????? If that mother was British I think it would be fairly safe to assume they would be running a ‘14 KIDS – AND GUESS WHO’S PAYING’ headline
Interesting story here about how the papers are seen to be so corrupt that less people trust them than they do the banks, and in the current economic climate, that means you must really have been printing some shite!
Only 7% of the population actually thinks the press behave responsibly or honourably and the government it on the verge of shaking up the way they’re regulated. About time too!
Yeah, heard reports yesterday on radio and TV re. the Media Standards Report and read comments in the broadsheets. Clearly the Wail makes up part of the 7% that actually believes the press do a good job – they made no mention of this report yesterday or today. Guess everything is rosy in Wail-world…
Just remembered – Media report made a mention of “scare-mongering health stories” in the tabloids. Any one recall a double-page story in the Wail by some boffin that nobody had ever heard of (about 3 yrs back) telling us the whole world was at risk from a horrible disease from Asia? Alongside was a half-page Hogarthian image of the Black Death. Couldn’t sleep for weeks. Now that’s what I call scare-mongering.
Any criticism of the media in general isjust deflected using the ‘public interest’ shield by the papers. I would suggest the vast majority of the stories printed in the tabloids actually do the opposite. The economy is a classic example…they constantly print scare stories when confidence is already low and serve to fuel the problem. They hold no truck with balance as they can’t push agendas with both sides of the arguement.
And I am STILL waiting to catch bird flu. We were all suposed to be dead by now, or eaking out a post-apocolyptic Mad Max style existance in it’s wake. What happened to that?
The government that takes a hard line on the press in this country is the party that gets my vote. Unfortunately, whenever the British press comes under scrutiny, both left and right have a tendency to close ranks.
CJ – The left and right tend to close ranks, probably because that government would be the BNP!
As much as I would love the press to get shafted in this country, the unfortunate truth is that one of the only professions that can be relied on to be more populist, corrupt, power mad, manipulative and self serving than a journalist is a politician, and if one tried to fuck with the press, the tragedy is they’d likely not have the best of intentions in doing so.
I seriously want press reform, but I’m not sure if I trust anyone to do it apart from maybe some impartial, genuinely independent NGO or trust set up for the purpose. If it’s a toss-up between the devil we know (a lying free press) or the small possibility of reform giving us a lying un-free press instead of an honest free one, I’d rather, begrudgedly keep what we have.
Is this Paul Dacre’s salary they’re referring to?
And why are on earth they showing a picture of the offspring of a single mother?????? If that mother was British I think it would be fairly safe to assume they would be running a ‘14 KIDS – AND GUESS WHO’S PAYING’ headline
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7878090.stm
Interesting story here about how the papers are seen to be so corrupt that less people trust them than they do the banks, and in the current economic climate, that means you must really have been printing some shite!
Only 7% of the population actually thinks the press behave responsibly or honourably and the government it on the verge of shaking up the way they’re regulated. About time too!
Yeah, heard reports yesterday on radio and TV re. the Media Standards Report and read comments in the broadsheets. Clearly the Wail makes up part of the 7% that actually believes the press do a good job – they made no mention of this report yesterday or today. Guess everything is rosy in Wail-world…
Just remembered – Media report made a mention of “scare-mongering health stories” in the tabloids. Any one recall a double-page story in the Wail by some boffin that nobody had ever heard of (about 3 yrs back) telling us the whole world was at risk from a horrible disease from Asia? Alongside was a half-page Hogarthian image of the Black Death. Couldn’t sleep for weeks. Now that’s what I call scare-mongering.
Any criticism of the media in general isjust deflected using the ‘public interest’ shield by the papers. I would suggest the vast majority of the stories printed in the tabloids actually do the opposite. The economy is a classic example…they constantly print scare stories when confidence is already low and serve to fuel the problem. They hold no truck with balance as they can’t push agendas with both sides of the arguement.
Oh i see so they’re supporting Brown now.
more crap giveaways
See private eye for details on Daily Mail bonus’s.
Also see this:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1139886/Single-mothers-created-generation-uber-chavs-costing-taxpayer-fortune-claims-deputy-head.html
Thats one way to deal with the issue of getting people back to work and problems in education: Its not the government, its the single mothers!
A baby with eight legs! Yuck!
And I am STILL waiting to catch bird flu. We were all suposed to be dead by now, or eaking out a post-apocolyptic Mad Max style existance in it’s wake. What happened to that?
The government that takes a hard line on the press in this country is the party that gets my vote. Unfortunately, whenever the British press comes under scrutiny, both left and right have a tendency to close ranks.
Nothing really to complain about here, other than the pointless Facebook reference
CJ – The left and right tend to close ranks, probably because that government would be the BNP!
As much as I would love the press to get shafted in this country, the unfortunate truth is that one of the only professions that can be relied on to be more populist, corrupt, power mad, manipulative and self serving than a journalist is a politician, and if one tried to fuck with the press, the tragedy is they’d likely not have the best of intentions in doing so.
I seriously want press reform, but I’m not sure if I trust anyone to do it apart from maybe some impartial, genuinely independent NGO or trust set up for the purpose. If it’s a toss-up between the devil we know (a lying free press) or the small possibility of reform giving us a lying un-free press instead of an honest free one, I’d rather, begrudgedly keep what we have.
I think the PCC should become independent to the press in my view, impartial from the industry.
It’s your only possible solution to the current quagmire, then again Paper press could be dead in 20 years.
I’ll honestly give it less than 10 years before the concept of a newspaper is an anachronism, at least in the most developed parts of the West.