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Tuesday, 31 January 2012

'Not about cannabis, smoking or schizophrenia'

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A Mail article about the dangers of cannabis has been awarded the 2011 Orwellian Prize for Journalistic Misrepresentation (of scientific re...
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Not such a positive solution

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George Monbiot's column of 26 January about Positive Weather Solutions (PWS) is well worth reading. PWS had become favoured weather f...
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Tuesday, 24 January 2012

'At Last'

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As spotted by Simon Ricketts :
Monday, 23 January 2012

Recommended: A year of headlines

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On 31 December 2011, Ned Morrell listed every front page headline published by the Daily Express in 2011 . Inspired by that effort, Scott ...
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Thursday, 19 January 2012

The Express, the EU and plastic bags (cont.)

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In May 2011, an Express front page headline claimed the EU had said 'ban shopping bags' : The sub-head clarified that this was...
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Wednesday, 18 January 2012

Drake/Leon Best

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In an article in the 'sport' section of MailOnline, a headline claims: Rik Sharma reports : not many people will have harbou...
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MailOnline clarifies story on Dale Farm lawyers

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In November, an article published by the MailOnline carried the headline: Dale Farm lawyers scoop MASSIVE £6m of taxpayers' money to ...
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Tuesday, 17 January 2012

What's wrong with this picture?

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An apology from the Daily Mail, published today : A picture published on January 4 which was captioned as showing convicted murderer Davi...
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Saturday, 14 January 2012

Richard Desmond and the McCanns

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At the Leveson Inquiry on Thursday, there were intriguing exchanges about the McCanns between a clearly unimpressed Robert Jay QC and Richa...
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Friday, 13 January 2012

Ethical

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From the Leveson Inquiry yesterday : Robert Jay QC: What interest, if any, do you have in ethical standards within your papers, or is that...
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Richard Desmond and the Daily Star

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In November 2011, Richard Desmond was trumpeting the circulation figures of the Daily Star : The Daily Star was selling 400,000 when we b...
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Thursday, 12 January 2012

Neesom and Whittow give evidence to Leveson

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Today, the Leveson Inquiry heard from Dawn Neesom, editor of the Daily Star, and Hugh Whittow, editor of the Daily Express. Neesom asserte...
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The rumour mill

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The Leveson Inquiry, 9 January 2012 . Robert Jay QC questions Sun editor Dominic Mohan: Q. Wasn't the true position something along t...

Re-heating old quotes for front page news

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On the day that Daily Star editor Dawn Neesom was giving evidence to the Leveson Inquiry, her paper came up with this front page story : ...
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Mail pays damages to Neil Morrissey

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The Daily Mail has paid substantial (five-figure) libel damages to actor Neil Morrissey after a lengthy dispute over their 19 March 2011 art...
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