tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092552783161885712.post5729672018163415021..comments2024-03-13T15:35:30.839+00:00Comments on Tabloid Watch: Dacre, the Mail and cancerMacGuffinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16894506410560858668noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092552783161885712.post-6564181717405854672012-02-11T16:21:22.986+00:002012-02-11T16:21:22.986+00:00"I categorically dispute that we adopt an irr..."I categorically dispute that we adopt an irresponsible stance on medical stories." How does this guy put his clothes on in the morning, Christ.Rebeccahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12130718224295515997noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092552783161885712.post-11066517753574235772012-02-07T15:45:36.857+00:002012-02-07T15:45:36.857+00:00What surprised me was that the hypocrisy that exhi...What surprised me was that the hypocrisy that exhibits itself daily in his 'news'paper actually comes direct from the top. The thousands of complaints made against the Jan Moir article were dismissed by Dacre as they apparently came from an online campaign and users of Twitter and that only a few "readers" directly complained to the Mail directly. If that is what he thinks why are there weekly articles about how viewers are "outraged" about some BBC or Ch4 programme with quotes lifted directly from message boards and twitter when at the end of the article a spokesperson for the broadcaster makes clear not a single person complained directly to them e.g. the Frozen Planet stupidity last year?<br /><br />Similarly Dacre dithered when asked more probing questions about how his newspaper is run and had the usual excuse we've heard alot of from these editors of either being out of the office that day, on holiday, or being chief of such a large group they haven't time to worry about the small things when misleading articles were published. If it were any other company his paper would be calling for the CEO to be reprimanded for failure to manage, lose their bonus etc yet he excuses himself willingly from any corporate responsibility.Martin Snoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092552783161885712.post-12314276246367638302012-02-07T14:35:50.820+00:002012-02-07T14:35:50.820+00:00Anyone who listened to Paul Dacre's defence of...Anyone who listened to Paul Dacre's defence of this article during the session at the Leveson Inquiry will have noted his insistance that the press release on this research said (direct quote from him, repeated more than once):<br /><br />"Just one pulse of artificial light at night<br />disrupts circadian cell division ... damage to cell division is characteristic of cancer."<br /><br />With this in mind you might be forgiven for feeling a degree of sympathy in regard to the difficult job he described newspapers as doing. Perhaps their only error was that they took the press release at face value... but wait... <br /><br />Let's take a look at the actual press release.<br /><br />I have no personal knowledge of whether this is the original press release, but working on the assumption it is... <br /><br />http://newmedia-eng.haifa.ac.il/?p=2875<br /><br />And... oh now wait a minute... it doesn't say what he says at all. Missing out some words makes a significant difference....<br /><br />"Just one “pulse” of artificial light at night disrupts circadian cell division, reveals a new study carried out by Dr. Rachel Ben-Shlomo of the University of Haifa-Oranim Department of Environmental and Evolutionary Biology along with Prof. Charalambos P. Kyriacou of the University of Leicester. “Damage to cell division is characteristic of cancer, and it is therefore important to understand the causes of this damage,” notes Dr. Ben-Shlomo. The study has been published in the journal Cancer Genetics and Cytogenetics.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com