What a real ‘Benefits Street’ would look like
This is what a real ‘Benefits Street’ might look like.
Media Integrity
Steer clear of Russia Today if you are serious about human rights
So-called ‘alternative’ media should be viewed with no less scepticism than the mainstream.
The man who wasn’t actually arrested for joking about Nelson Mandela
In a shocking disregard for freedom of expression, Neil Phillips from Rugeley, Staffordshire, was arrested last week after he made tasteless jokes about Nelson Mandela on the internet. Or was he?
Why is a poppy ok on the BBC but not an AIDS ribbon?
Graham Norton’s AIDS ribbon reprimand proves the BBC should end its discriminatory favouring of the British Legion’s poppy.
The Mail caught fibbing…again
The Daily Mail has been caught lying about Gordon Brown’s expenses.
Sun apology: ‘No evidence’ of 600,000 benefit tourists, the paper now says
A few weeks ago the Sun ran a story which claimed that there were ‘600,000 benefit tourists’ in the UK and that the European Union had said this was ‘no problem’. The Sun made it up.
The Sun’s mealy-mouthed non apology for its ‘1,200 mental patients’ headline
Tucked away in its ‘clarifications and corrections column today, the Sun has offered what looks like an apology for a distasteful and inaccurate headline two weeks ago.
‘BBC presenters have deeply held left-wing political views’. Do they? That’s not what the evidence suggests
If anyone should be complaining about BBC bias it is the left rather than the right.
In a digital age, radical media must adapt
We must innovate and experiment, combining print and digital in new ways.
Real press reform would look at who owns our media
Freedom of the press in Britain is the freedom to ‘print such of the proprietor’s prejudices as the advertisers don’t object to’.