by Angela Phillips The appointment of George Osborne, a Conservative MP and former chancellor of the exchequer, as editor of the Evening Standard was, to put it mildly, a surprise to many. But Osborne’s appointment only makes more explicit the newspaper’s close ties to the Conservative Party We carried out research on the Standard when it was edited by Sarah Sands, who … [Read more...]
The Bias of Objectivity: The Evening Standard not so neutral after all..
Earlier this month, the editor of the Evening Standard asserted that the paper would be 'scrupulous' in giving equal treatment to Conservative and London mayoral campaigns. In the past, the Standard has been widely criticised for abusing its dominant market position by pursuing a highly partisan approach to covering mayoral campaigns. The Media Reform Coalition - in … [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...]