The Daily Mail: ‘Are we sorry we backed the Nazis?’

Media Integrity

Steve Bell is on top form in today's Guardian, and his latest cartoon requires no further comment from me.

Steve Bell is on top form in today’s Guardian, and his latest cartoon requires no further comment from me.

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20 Responses to “The Daily Mail: ‘Are we sorry we backed the Nazis?’”

  1. Alec

    No it’s not and no I won’t.

    Harman, you and a lot of others have badly misjudged this. Most people – even those who disagree with the DM’s editorial position – feel a sense of revulsion at dirty old men eying up young boys, and would leave any organization which didn’t cast them aside with great force.

    ~alec

  2. blarg1987

    Let’s clarify what is going on here:

    My understanding is that the whole Harman affair is to do with the fact she was in an organisation (not the leader of or could dictate policy) that had another organisation associated with it that wanted the laws changed to justify things that the vast majority of people would agree are distateful and wrong.

    What one has to be careful of is once you open the floodgates you may indirectly imply yourself. For example you may have shares in your pension fund that are invested in a company that droped a bomb on a house that killed an innocent family. Does that mean by association you should bear some responsibility for something that is partially out of your control?

    What the Guardian is rightly picking up on is the double standards of the Daily Mail, yes it is right for the Mail to pick up the story, however they are in an untenable position to claim to be protective of children, when they do have a certain habit of writing articles and displaying people under the age of 16 in a certain manner which is morally wrong.

    If they truly want to set the standard on the Harman story then they should atone for previous articles and set the example. They should not be pointing one finger when they have four others pointing back at them.

  3. rob

    Well put

  4. robertcp

    It is terrible and amazing that PIE was involved with NCCL and this seems to be the view of its successor organisation.

  5. David John Moore

    smart man well put

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