tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092552783161885712.post4006820655860455409..comments2024-03-13T15:35:30.839+00:00Comments on Tabloid Watch: PCC must act over Express' 'Muslim Plot to Kill Pope' front pageMacGuffinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16894506410560858668noreply@blogger.comBlogger20125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092552783161885712.post-66086912433014844812010-10-19T17:35:05.751+01:002010-10-19T17:35:05.751+01:00Common people. you all know that the only truthful...Common people. you all know that the only truthful info in a newspaper is the price and the date.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092552783161885712.post-55315363098706068902010-09-22T11:17:09.780+01:002010-09-22T11:17:09.780+01:00This is outrageous. No amount of apologies can re...This is outrageous. No amount of apologies can repair the damages on the image of the Muslim world.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092552783161885712.post-18647374110484507882010-09-21T13:50:37.247+01:002010-09-21T13:50:37.247+01:00DrPizza
i'm sorry but you are coming across a ...DrPizza<br />i'm sorry but you are coming across a wee bit patronising:<br /><br />Railing against this is tilting at windmills, and represents a fundamental misunderstanding of the nature and intent of the press in all its forms<br /><br />I think most people who read this blog understand the nature of the press, but this story isn't about balance. <br /><br />it's about a blatant, large print LIE.<br /><br />I dislike the express's agenda and angle, but i understand it has one. however, printing a fear mongering, big racist lie is a little bit different than not being 'balanced'.sianandcrookedribhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00959715300131969670noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092552783161885712.post-41621325085340070332010-09-20T20:34:30.974+01:002010-09-20T20:34:30.974+01:00"God that paper is like used toilet paper.&qu..."God that paper is like used toilet paper."<br /><br />Minus the paper.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00072635561887119176noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092552783161885712.post-41380743478816243482010-09-20T14:11:55.040+01:002010-09-20T14:11:55.040+01:00The job of a newspaper is to sell adverts, not be ...The job of a newspaper is to sell adverts, not be "accurate" or "balanced".<br /><br />If accuracy and balance are marketable, that's all well and good, but they're not (or at least, not as marketable as fearmongering, fruity young girls, and pointless celebrity gossip).<br /><br />It's not clear what "balance" even means. Equal coverage of different viewpoints? Coverage in proportion to how widely held the viewpoints are? Something else?<br /><br />Complaining that journalism is "unbalanced" is a meaningless criticism; "balance" means whatever you want it to mean.<br /><br />Everyone has a viewpoint. Everything is editorialized. Even the mere selection of what to report and what not is a form of bias. Sure, there are different degrees. Some organizations (the AP and Reuters being good examples) strive to produce broad, non-selective coverage of more or less anything and everything.<br /><br />TV and print news is, however, far more selective, and far more agenda-driven, through necessity.<br /><br />Even without a profit motive or an overt political bias, there is still selection done to assess relevance and level of interest. For example, virtually every news outlet is overwhelmingly biased towards national news, to the exclusion of world news and local news. Many broadcasters have a soft human-interest "and finally..." story to close their shows, typically representing the only piece of good news they'll broadcast. Neither of these things are _balanced_, but so what?<br /><br />Railing against this is tilting at windmills, and represents a fundamental misunderstanding of the nature and intent of the press in all its forms.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15335488976548439448noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092552783161885712.post-22192742364631685752010-09-20T12:54:10.028+01:002010-09-20T12:54:10.028+01:00@Fazel - good for you and for continuing to push! ...@Fazel - good for you and for continuing to push! The reaction should be as appalled by any shoddy media reporting and in many instances the source of several misleading stories is often news agencies. <br /><br />They should not be exempt from censure and like others I strongly believe we need more robust monitoring body rather than the useless PCC. One that covers agencies such as Reuters, pushes for very swift responses (within 48-hours in clear cases such as the Express story); a like-for-like size, space and prominence on stories such as this one and an ability to impose punitive financial penalties on poor reporting where there is clear harm.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092552783161885712.post-20456299802584693082010-09-19T23:24:11.087+01:002010-09-19T23:24:11.087+01:00I wonder what would the reaction be on this page i...I wonder what would the reaction be on this page if the publication was not a tabloid newspaper!!!<br />for the last four months i have been tryiong to get Reuters news agency to apologise for an inaccurate and unbalanced report they published about 5 people who were executed on the 9th of May this year in Iran.<br /><br />for four long months several reuters editors including the editor in chief resisted my and maintained their article was accurate but finally after few MPs intervened they had to remove the piece and correct the story. However they never addressed the issue of balance in their report publicly!!!!<br /><br />my complaint about two newspapers which ran the Reuters story<br />http://www.pcc.org.uk/news/index.html?article=NjYwMg==<br /><br />the link to the article removed <br />http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6480LC20100509<br /><br />why do we not still have a PCC style organisation to regulate international news agencies such as Reuters and APfazelnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092552783161885712.post-83792521424568165142010-09-19T20:02:23.133+01:002010-09-19T20:02:23.133+01:00So a joke, just like the joke about Robin Hood air...So a joke, just like the joke about Robin Hood airport being blown up.<br /><br />http://jackofkent.blogspot.com/2010/09/why-paul-chambers-case-matters.htmlSadButMadLadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17836368722377421009noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092552783161885712.post-36327185325283961752010-09-19T15:15:13.576+01:002010-09-19T15:15:13.576+01:00I saw this at my Grandads house yesterday- made me...I saw this at my Grandads house yesterday- made me feel quite sick.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092552783161885712.post-41230191396683388722010-09-19T14:55:13.000+01:002010-09-19T14:55:13.000+01:00There won't be a front page apology. It would ...There won't be a front page apology. It would shock their readers too much to read that not all Muslims are terrorists, or even that anyone foreign isn't always a Muslim and/or terrorist. I doubt they could cope with that.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092552783161885712.post-81590796091064627382010-09-19T14:52:37.116+01:002010-09-19T14:52:37.116+01:00You could have written the above story on the day ...You could have written the above story on the day men were arrested and probably not had to change a word!<br /><br />What a pathetic excuse for a so called newspaper (no-use paper sounds better!!)Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09638895424858977693noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092552783161885712.post-15273172256950699692010-09-19T14:29:00.874+01:002010-09-19T14:29:00.874+01:00Call me an idealist if you like, but I would like ...Call me an idealist if you like, but I would like to see a law obliging the Express to give its apology and retraction the same prominence as its original erroneous piece. <br /><br />The Express poison has been injected not only into the minds of sad Express readers, but subliminally into the mind of anyone who glances at a news stand.<br /><br />We need a Royal Commission on the media, to look into this kind of thing, and also media ownership, to avoid Berlusconisation of the UK, and to replace the PCC by an independent body with real powers. Green Party conference recently passed a resolution to this effect.<br /><br />Democracy cannot function properly if public opinion is manipulated by this style of "journalism".DocRichardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08903964792092284406noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092552783161885712.post-61360469990368909452010-09-19T14:08:02.053+01:002010-09-19T14:08:02.053+01:00Couldn't there be "citing racial hatred&q...Couldn't there be "citing racial hatred" laws that can be used against the Daily Express? Although, now that I think about it, I am sure the other sleazepapers will get even worse.<br />The one thing that I have noticed about sleazepapers is that they do not like to be told they are wrong.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092552783161885712.post-31357152331461981932010-09-19T13:42:27.188+01:002010-09-19T13:42:27.188+01:00This is completely despicable, but also tragically...This is completely despicable, but also tragically typical. This, along with the 'Atheist Hate Campaign', just goes to underline the zeal of the Daly Mail to find some sort of group to scapegoat anything. It will be an historic day when something is finally done about the filth this paper puts out.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092552783161885712.post-76966959754275222752010-09-19T13:28:55.917+01:002010-09-19T13:28:55.917+01:00The other point is that I've seen nothing that...The other point is that I've seen nothing that confirmed that any of the six gentlemen were Muslims, yet that was the Express's main angle. The only indication of their ethnic or religious origin was that they were "thought" to be Algerian. So why have the Express done a 2+2=5 and made the declaration that they are Muslims? Or is it that describing them as Algerians wouldn't have suited their bigoted agenda?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092552783161885712.post-44501393173144400212010-09-19T13:28:49.860+01:002010-09-19T13:28:49.860+01:00Nice find. Par for the course for the Express.Nice find. Par for the course for the Express.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092552783161885712.post-112412381225208452010-09-19T13:28:30.170+01:002010-09-19T13:28:30.170+01:00Sounds to me as around as significant a comment as...Sounds to me as around as significant a comment as the flippant sort that goes on in every English pub, or where the misguided man on his way into an airport answers to the question "Anything To Declare?" with "Oh only a few bombs officer!" - in those contexts, the outrage from the tabloids is why these airport people don't have a sense of humour and why do they over-react. But that's probably because it's a white middle-class person going on holiday, rather than an alleged Muslim alleged illegal immigrant alleged bomb-plotter. Funny how a beard and a foreign accent can make all the difference.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092552783161885712.post-20508521113095769312010-09-19T13:25:30.785+01:002010-09-19T13:25:30.785+01:00Here's hoping they find a good lawyer prepared...Here's hoping they find a good lawyer prepared to sue the Express and take some of Desmond's dirty money. <br /><br />God that paper is like used toilet paper.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092552783161885712.post-17116415432325537192010-09-19T13:00:07.820+01:002010-09-19T13:00:07.820+01:00What an inevitable end to this shocking yet totall...What an inevitable end to this shocking yet totally unsurprising Express non-story. I doubt there will even be a tiny column on page 34 correction, sadly.DanProject76https://www.blogger.com/profile/01316911867846259567noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092552783161885712.post-26323400954534831962010-09-19T12:59:42.886+01:002010-09-19T12:59:42.886+01:00One of the papers today says the arrests were due ...One of the papers today says the arrests were due to a joke made by one of the men in the staff canteen. So several of the men were guilty of nothing more than listening to somebody else joke about blowing up the pope.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com