Daily Mail
Dacre: ‘Britain’s newspapers are infinitely better behaved than they were two decades ago’
In the same week that the Daily Mail made two libel payouts in as many days, Paul Dacre made this extraordinary claim as part of his annual report as chairman of the Editors’ Code of Practice Committee. In particular, he criticised politicians,… Read more
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Daily Express – following in the Mail’s footsteps
The Daily Mail’s big story for today is European police to spy on Britons: Now ministers hand over Big Brother powers to foreign officers. The story was first posted on Mail Online last night and appears on the Mail’s front page for… Read more
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The ‘So what?’ box
Whenever you visit the Daily Mail web-site, the first thing that confronts you will be a large box towards the centre of the page. This box, which will be called from now on the “So what?” box, is where all the stories that make you go “So… Read more
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Journalism is dead
Friedrich Nietzsche once proclaimed that God is dead. Whether you agree with him or not, one has to wonder whether the same can be said about journalism in modern Britain too. ‘Why is this?’, you might ask. Well, millions of people in this… Read more
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Fleet Street syndrome
Stockholm syndrome is the curious phenomenon that arises when hostages experience adulation for their captor. Even though these people may have been beaten or tortured by their captors, they develop positive feelings for them. I think, when it… Read more
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