Budget polls: What The Sun “forgot” to tell you
Rupert Murdoch’s Sun, revelling in the success of its own campaigning on the budget, didn’t want the latest YouGov polling analysis to take the shine off.
Media Integrity
How to write a Richard Littlejohn column
Dominic Browne presents a step-by-step guide to writing a Richard Littlejohn Daily Mail column.
Daily Mail’s baseless ‘pay apartheid’ slur on public sector
The Daily Mail has mounted its highest of horses this morning, attacking the public sector over higher average pay than the private sector.
Tabloid claims about “181,000 migrants overstaying” wide of mark
Bad news about immigration once again shows itself as being just about the only news the mass circulation papers want to print, writes Migrants Rights’ Network director Don Flynn.
The truth behind the Mail’s warning that 50p tax will cost £350bn
The Daily Mail this morning reported that “Labour’s 50p tax rate ‘could cost the country £350bn’, Osborne warned”. The claim was calculated on the back of a fag packet.
Ghastly decline in right wing reporting standards
A rebuttal of the right wing media’s manipulation of how a court dealt with a fostering case involving a Christian couple with anti-homosexual beliefs.
Poll shows widespread sexism; Mail says: “Women declare sexism dead”
The Daily Mail has used a report showing sexism is widespread in UK society to argue sexism is dead; the article is headed “sexism is dead, say most British women”.
Four media myths about the justice green paper
Sophie Willett, of The Howard League for Penal Reform, rebuts some of the right wing tabloids’ myths about the Ministry of Justice green paper, ‘Breaking the cycle: effective punishment, rehabilitation and sentencing of offenders’.
No wonder Murdoch’s happy: the News Corp horse had already bolted
The stable door had been open for a good while before News Corporation tabled its bid for the 61 per cent of BSkyB it did not already own, writes Martin Moore, director of the Media Standards Trust.
Campaigners ignored as Murdoch gets go ahead
The BBC are reporting that Rupert Murdoch has been given the go ahead for News International’s controversial takeover of BSkyB. The move is likely to inflame campaigners.