When the Telegraph encourages us to believe that we have a problem with people arriving from Pakistan and spreading COVID-19, we know what it is up to. The lead item on the Telegraph news site on 26 June announced: ‘Exclusive: Half of UK’s imported COVID-19 infections are from Pakistan’. Read the rest of this entry »
Peak Denial: How the Corporate Press Negates Journalism – Brian Cathcart
26 05 2020
You really have to laugh. And at the same time you have to wonder whether, with this, the UK corporate press has finally achieved Peak Denial. Because the COVID-19 pandemic has brought a sharp acceleration in the decline of print newspaper sales, they have decided that they no longer have to tell the public how many – or rather how few – copies they are selling. Read the rest of this entry »
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Categories : Journalism, Media Regulation
The Government is giving away your money to the Mail and the Sun – Brian Cathcart
30 04 2020
The whole affair could hardly be more sleazy and murky, but the truth is now clear: the Government is giving tens of millions of pounds of taxpayers’ money to the corporate press, including the Daily Mail and the Sun. Read the rest of this entry »
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Categories : Government and Policy, Journalism, Media
Exploiting a Pandemic: Billionaire Press Owners want your tax money – Brian Cathcart
11 04 2020
The press billionaires want your money. Or, to be precise, they want the Government to give them your money. They are taking a financial hit and they smell public subsidies in the air for other industries damaged by COVID-19 so, greedy as ever, they want a share. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: Brian Cathcart, Byline Times, Coronavirus
Categories : Journalism, Media
The Beautician and the Beast: Danielle Hindley v Mail on Sunday – Brian Cathcart
26 02 2020
Danielle Hindley is a chatty beautician aged 34 who lives in the former mining village of Kippax, near Leeds. In her 20s, she went through a disastrous marriage that left her single, broke and with a baby, but she worked her way back, building up a nice little business in her home while raising her son. Read the rest of this entry »
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Categories : Libel, Media Regulation
Caroline Flack: The Dark Side of the Sun – Brian Cathcart
17 02 2020
In tabloid newsrooms today there were three priorities – one, look sad about Caroline Flack, two, shift the blame for her death elsewhere, and three, find another victim. Read the rest of this entry »
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Manchester United, the Sun and that complaint to the “press regulator” IPSO – Brian Cathcart
11 02 2020
Complaining to IPSO, the fake ‘regulator’ operated by the big newspaper companies, is almost always a waste of time, first because the dice are loaded against complainants and second because, even if you win and your complaint is upheld, IPSO has no power to deliver a meaningful remedy. Read the rest of this entry »
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Categories : Media Regulation
The Cairncross Review: It was a con – Brian Cathcart
28 01 2020
Why has the government binned the key recommendation of its own report on the future of journalism? Because it was only ever meant as a distraction. Read the rest of this entry »
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For British Muslims the outlook for 2020 is continuing racist abuse from the press – Brian Cathcart
9 01 2020
‘I speak for myself,’ the outgoing IPSO boss Sir Alan Moses told the Financial Times, ‘but I have a suspicion that [Muslims] are from time to time written about in a way that [newspapers] would simply not write about Jews or Roman Catholics.’Comments : 1 Comment »
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Meghan and the Car Park: Anatomy of a Royal News “Story” – Brian Cathcart
25 10 2019
On 12 April this year the front page headline of the Sun was ‘NOT IN MEG BACK YARD’. The report began: ‘Prince Harry and Meghan have infuriated Royal Household staff at Windsor by banning them from using a car park — because it overlooks their new home.’ Read the rest of this entry »
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