Grayling’s “ticking time bomb” – more misdirection from IDS’s DWP?
New DWP figures throw little light on household worklessness in Britain, and none whatsoever on youth unemployment, the purported subject of today’s stories.
Media Integrity
Cameron’s communications chief Coulson calls it quits
David Cameron’s Downing Street Director of Communications Andy Coulson’s resignation today brings an end to a political saga that has been running for months.
Immigrants less likely to claim benefits than general population
The Daily Mail’s undue emphasis on focusing on benefits claimants as immigrants disproportionately is not backed up by Office for National Statistics data.
The Daily Mail are debt dunces
Michael Burke discusses how the coalition’s economic policies represent a transfer of income from poor to rich, and how the Daily Mail are deficit dunces.
Tunisia: Where was the British media when protestors were being murdered?
Luke Bozier asks why it took the UK media so long to report on the revolution in Tunisia, and why is the focus has been on British tourists, not the situation.
Radical ideas for a progressive majority: Making the media more accountable
Better regulation of the media – holding them to account like public servants are – was one of the ideas discussed at the Dragons Den session at the Fabian conference.
Left Foot Forward: Progressive, independent, evidence-based
Over at Order Order, Guido Fawkes has accused Left Foot Forward of being a “fully signed on” member of some Labour Party rebuttal network, and “regularly taking stories” from Ed Miliband’s online communications specialist, Alex Smith. Let’s look at the evidence.
Daily Mail: Never mind the data, here comes the Muslim convert fear
For the Daily Mail, it turns out, when you cannot scare people with the facts, well, you can just scare them anyway, with a story about “Islamification”.
Mail and Telegraph pull anti-tax-dodging ads
Right-wing papers the Daily Mail and the Telegraph have pulled 38 Degrees’s anti-tax-dodging “Artful Dodger” ads – despite having agreed prices with the group.
Fox News caught distorting climate change debate. Again
Fox News has been caught again distorting the facts through media manipulation, this time on climate change, reports exec director of Climatico Niel Bowerman.