Media Integrity
(Graph) Number of times the word ‘scrounger’ has been used in UK newspapers since 1994
The dichotomy between "shirkers" on the one hand and "strivers" on the other is the backdrop against which the coalition is reforming welfare. Building the narrative, however, relies upon a friendly, nay compliant media.
ITV has learnt nothing from the MMR/autism scandal
The current measles outbreak is in large part down to parents not getting their children vaccinated in the late nineties/early noughties because of misinformation about a link between the MMR vaccine and autism. Not everyone has learnt from past mistakes, either.
Scotland should opt into UK wide press regulation, say committee of MSPs
As political leaders in Scotland once again meet today to discuss how to take forward the need for a reformed system of press regulation post-Leveson, a committee of MSPs has called for Scotland to opt into the UK wide Royal Charter proposal rather than going its own way.
‘Baloney’ – the Mail’s campaign against life saving MMR vaccine
MMR safe? Baloney, according to Melanie Phillips.
Social media martyrdom: lessons from the Paris Brown debacle
Yesterday Paris Brown, the country's first Youth Crime Commissioner, resigned from her post thanks to the Mail's digging up of ill-advised tweets she posted several years ago. A sad, but perhaps inevitable end to what was the opportunity of a lifetime for the young teenager from Kent.
Is it any wonder, with our news media, that Paris Brown has opinions like this?
Ah, the Daily Mail. One of Britain's most popular and well read newspapers which in the past has seen fit to victimise those on benefits, transsexuals, homosexuals, asylum seekers, migrants and many more, now finds itself spitting venom at someone who isn't even legally an adult.