Category Archives: Telegraph

The BBC and bias

Posted on September 3, 2010 by

Several papers, including the Telegraph, happily report that the current Director General of the BBC thinks that 30 years ago the organisation found it much harder to be impartial than it does now*. However, the Telegraph can’t resist adding in … Continue reading →

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Making my blood boil(er suit)

Posted on August 3, 2010 by

Via Littlejohn’s column (ew, sorry) comes the latest yuman rites/PC gorn maaaaaad tale: Police have been banned from forcing suspects to change into blue paper boiler suits while their clothes are sent for forensic analysis. Yep, you guessed — yuman … Continue reading →

Posted in Churnalism, Express, Human rights, Mail, Media, Police, Telegraph | Tagged , , , , | 5 Comments

Illegal immigration and the media

Posted on August 2, 2010 by

There’s been an unusually large number of stories about illegal immigration recently, whether it’s Romanian children trafficking, marriage scams in Sussex, or fast-track deportations of rejected asylum applicants being ruled illegal. It’s a tricky area and one that can really … Continue reading →

Posted in BBC, Guardian, Immigration, Mail, Media, Numbers, Standard, Telegraph | Tagged | 2 Comments

The unusual suspects

Posted on July 18, 2010 by

It’s almost too easy sometimes to criticise the mainstays of bad journalism. So here’s a story about how other, more respectable newspapers can fuck up. In August 2009, Mr Justice Wyn Williams ruled in the High Court on a case … Continue reading →

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It’s not just the Express

Posted on July 14, 2010 by

The Express has rightly taken a lot of criticism for its foul front page yesterday. But while its effort is by some way the worst of the coverage of the Leeds study, that’s no reason to let the others off … Continue reading →

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