the long-awaited 'why the telegraph is going downhill' thread

[teqniq]

Peter Oborne on his departure from the rag

Why I have resigned from the Telegraph

 

[Hocus Eye.]

Peter Oborne on his departure from the rag

Why I have resigned from the Telegraph

That Opendemocracy link is a bit dodgy. Perhaps it is being hit a lot of times. It is the same link in Roadkill's thread.

 

[teqniq]

That Opendemocracy link is a bit dodgy. Perhaps it is being hit a lot of times. It is the same link in Roadkill's thread.

Why is it dodgy?

 

[Hocus Eye.]

Why is it dodgy?

Nothing sinister, it is just not responding like it was earlier. The Guardian link on Roadkill's post is working fine though and has the same info.

 

[brogdale]

Peter Oborne on his departure from the rag

Why I have resigned from the Telegraph

Have NuLab put out the "Je suis Peter" posters yet?

 

[teqniq]

 

[treelover]

Which newspaper website has stories with the following headlines:

'Vampire grave' found in Bulgaria

British parrot missing for four years returns speaking Spanish

Dwarf stripper gets bride pregnant on her hen night

Is it?

A) The Sun
B) The Daily Star
C) The Daily Sport
D) The super-soaraway Daily Telegraph

'Vampire grave' found in Bulgaria, wouldn't mind a link to that.

 

[gosub]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/wor...11153923/Vampire-grave-found-in-Bulgaria.html

 

[Prince Rhyus]

The link is back up -> https://opendemocracy.net/ourkingdom/peter-oborne/why-i-have-resigned-from-telegraph

The Beeb here.
The Indy here.

Interestingly, mainstream commentators from across the spectrum have backed what he said. I wonder if the Treasury Select Committee will cross-examine bank execs on how they influenced newspaper content given The Guardian said the firm 'paused' their advertising at the peak of the bad headlines (see here).

 

[stavros]

Yes, although - Diana stories aside - that's true of pretty much every other paper too.

You're right, although Sir Bufton Tufton should expect better from his fine organ.

 

[gosub]

http://blogs.kcl.ac.uk/policywonker...-the-telegraphs-coverage-of-the-hsbc-scandal/

 

[brogdale]

You're right, although Sir Bufton Tufton should expect better from his fine organ.

I'd imagine that there's widespread disgust in and around Tunbridge Wells.

 

[gosub]

I'd imagine that there's widespread disgust in and around Tunbridge Wells.

Only if they read other publications as well, oddly enough the Telegraph has been remarkably quiet on Mr Obourne's revelations, though I did note with some amusement that they gave they police raid of HSBC Switzerland a prominent position on the website today

 

[stavros]

The Barclays, along with Jonathan Harmsworth, are the best known of the tax-dodging press proprietors, although I'm pretty sure they all do it in some way or form. The Graun used an avoidance vehicle for something a few years back, and the Eye has had stuff about Dirty Des and Lebedev using offshore means too.

 

[elbows]

Follow-up BBC article, based on Newsnight info:

http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/health-31529682

More than a dozen current and recent Telegraph journalists have confirmed Mr Oborne's concerns that the newspaper has a particular problem maintaining the "Chinese walls" that most newspapers keep between their advertising departments and the work of their journalists.

In one bizarre case, the review for children's film Despicable Me 2 was bumped up from a two-star rating to three stars for commercial reasons.

The children's film's distributors had bought extensive advertising in the newspaper in the run-up to its launch.

More seriously, journalists gave examples to Newsnight of how commercial concerns affected coverage given to China and Russia.

In another case, on 11 December 2012, Jason Seiken, a senior editorial executive, responded to a story published that morning about turmoil within RBS by pointedly telling financial reporters that the bank was an important commercial partner for the newspaper.

 

[nino_savatte]

What free press?

 

[gosub]

http://www.businessinsider.in/Heres...e-of-key-advertisers/articleshow/46306610.cms


Holed below the waterline

 

[8ball]

http://www.businessinsider.in/Heres...e-of-key-advertisers/articleshow/46306610.cms


Holed below the waterline

That's definitely a brave gambit...

 

[gosub]

That's definitely a brave gambit...

as long as you dear reader, take our word for what happened and and don't look at the evidence, if we invoke political tribalism, we can pretend nothing has happened

 

[Celyn]

No subject, no story, no person and no organisation is off-limits to our journalists.

Yeah, right.

So their defence roughly boils down to the "Telegraph" somehow being brave defenders of British interests, blah blah. Hmm. Me not convinced.

 

[Dogsauce]

They've made that common mistake of using the term 'wealth creating' rather than 'wealth extracting'. I see it quite often in places like the Telegraph, is it an autocorrect error or something?

 

[nino_savatte]

The smell of hubris emanates from every word of this leader column.

This newspaper makes no apology for the way in which it has covered the HSBC group and the allegations of wrongdoing by its Swiss subsidiary, allegations that have been so enthusiastically promoted by the BBC, the Guardian and their ideological soulmates in the Labour Party. We have covered this matter as we do all others, according to our editorial judgment and informed by our values. Foremost among those values is a belief in free enterprise and free markets.

We are proud to be the champion of British business and enterprise. In an age of cheap populism and corrosive cynicism about wealth-creating businesses, we have defended British industries including the financial services industry that accounts for almost a tenth of the UK economy, sustains two million jobs and provides around one in every eight pounds the Exchequer raises in tax.

We will take no lectures about journalism from the likes of the BBC, the Guardian or the Times. Those media outlets that are this week sniping about our coverage of HSBC were similarly dismissive in 2009 when we began to reveal details of MPs’ expenses claims, a fact that speaks volumes about their judgment and partiality.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/...12/The-Telegraphs-promise-to-our-readers.html

 

[TheHoodedClaw]

This is a very low blow by "Telegraph Reporter"

News UK, the publisher of The Times and The Sun, has launched an internal investigation after two members of its commercial department took their own lives within weeks of one another amid fears that staff are being put under unreasonable pressure to hit targets.

In addition to the tragic deaths, at least nine other staff members from the company’s advertising arm have been signed off recently with stress-related complaints.

Details of the internal probe came as it emerged that one of the company’s senior executives had boasted about how its commercial and editorial departments were now working closely with one another, despite public assurances from the firm that they remained entirely separate.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/med...s-of-two-members-of-its-commercial-staff.html

It's on the print front page tomorrow.

 

[gosub]

Also got a story on the guardian saving apple's blushes. Defend by attacking. Might lead to an industry wide clean up, but I doubt it. In other news their head of investigation, that did mp expenses they were so proud of this morning, took a job at the Guardian today

 

[brogdale]

Vennmania....Possibly the most ludicrous 'political' piece yet produced for this election....

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/gen...election-power-sharing-deal-in-one-chart.html

(hover your mouse over the SNP/LibDem set for Clarksonian casual racism)

 

[gosub]

Article "Britain to bask in 21C as summer finally arrives". Um its April 5th, it would be nice for a warm Spring, but Summer finally being here in April, get to fuck

 

[stavros]

Article "Britain to bask in 21C as summer finally arrives".

Did the Telegraph really use metric units?

 

[gosub]

Did the Telegraph really use metric units?

was a c&p, so yes, see the title has now changed to "summer on the way after wet Easter weekend, and its 70F now

 

[stavros]

The Telegraph cover here tells me that "80,000 could die in superbug outbreak". Little by little, the gap between this organ and the Mail and Express gets smaller.

That said, the same page shows the Express has the jaw=dropping story that "NHS hires foreign nurses".

 

[Belushi]

This is very special http://www.telegraph.co.uk/lifestyl...riors-an-intensely-artistic-London-house.html

‘We don’t have a television or electronic games – the children understand they are heirs to a lost culture,’