by Jon Danzig The Press Complaints Commission has ruled that the Daily Mail breached The Editors’ Code on accuracy with its story about buses and planes from Romania and Bulgaria to the UK being full-up and sold-out. On New Year’s Eve last year, the Daily Mail published its story headlined, ‘Sold out! Flights and buses full as Romanians and … [Read more...]
The Mail and intrusion into grief – an isolated incident?
Written by Martin Moore. Reposted with kind permission from the Media Standards Trust. When a Mail on Sunday journalist intruded on a private memorial service for Ed Miliband’s uncle the editor of the Mail on Sunday, Geordie Grieg, apologised and suspended two journalists. It was a ‘terrible lapse of judgment’ he wrote, and said that it was ‘completely contrary to the … [Read more...]
Professor James Curran comments on the Daily Mail
Letter to the Evening Standard The Daily Mail’s attack on Ed Miliband’s father as ‘the man who hated Britain’ because he criticised the country’s institutions and values is a replay of the McCarthyite assault on the left in the US as being un-American, during the 1940s and 1950s. It is a classic ploy: if you do not disavow your radical beliefs, you do not belong to the … [Read more...]
PROTEST: THE DAILY MAIL HATES BRITAIN
When: Sunday, 6 October, 12:00 Where: The Daily Mail, Young Street, W8 5EH (High St Kensington tube) Hosted by: The People's Assembly Details: https://www.facebook.com/events/247553875396192/ From the organisers: So, the Daily Mail accused Ralph Miliband - a Jewish refugee who fled the Holocaust and proudly fought the Nazis - of "hating Britain". The irony. This … [Read more...]
The Daily Mail knows all about ‘hate’
Des Freedman argues for a full and open debate about concentrated media power. In light of the forthcoming consideration by the government of the two rival Royal Charters, this is the first of a series of pieces on press power we will be publishing. If any single article demonstrates the abuse of press power, the Daily Mail’s hatchet job on Ralph Miliband, the father of … [Read more...]
Miranda detention part two: who decides on the public interest?
Yesterday we wrote about why the detention of David Miranda under anti-terror legislation was so different from the arrest of British journalists on suspicion of unlawfully obtaining information. We were writing in response to various figures who accused the critics of press abuse of hypocrisy and double standards. One of them was Brendan O’Neill, who, who made a crack about … [Read more...]
Our Media, Not Theirs: report from the Media Reform rally, 17 June
This post is reproduced, with kind permission, from the website of the National Union of Journalists. It does not represent our views, but does offer a fair summary of the rally that night. As the explosive events in Turkey played out on news networks and Twitter around the world, and protesters were being attacked in Taksim Square by the police, the Turkish national news … [Read more...]