Showing posts with label The Daily Express. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Daily Express. Show all posts

Friday, 1 May 2009

A few links about death, war, lies, homophobia, and the Media

Robert Fisk reflects on the time that he met Baha Mousa’s father as British operations in Iraq come to an end. ‘Robert Fisk: A historic day for Iraq – but not in the way the British want to believe’.  For Fisk’s first article about meeting Baha Mousa’s father - ‘Robert Fisk: A cry for justice from a good man who expected us to protect his son’.

A good post from Tabloid Watch on racism in the press and crime reporting - ‘How the tabloids cover crime

Another good post from Tabloid Watch on homophobia in the Sun. ‘Sun's shower of homophobia

3 good blogs on the evidence presented to the Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee.

Saturday, 18 April 2009

Tabloid Watch - Lies, Express lies and statistics

Tabloid Watch focus on The Daily Express misrepresenting marriage statistics for the purpose of political point scoring. Exemplary of greater ills in British Journalism - ill-judged, reactionary, biased, alarmist, populist nonsense. Well, it it's not as though anything interesting or significant is happening at the moment - might as well try to deceive people.