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

[Pickman's model]

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

my eyes my poor eyes

 

[teqniq]

Fuck!

 

[gosub]

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

I wonder what was wrong with the ExpressEditor, must be something serious if he had to make his first visit to an NHS hospital in 30 years

 

[ViolentPanda]

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

That's one member of the haut-bourgeoisie that you can guarantee will never crawl out of her own arsehole!

 

[ViolentPanda]

my eyes my poor eyes

She's obviously intending to send her hubby doolally-tap.

 

[stavros]

I wonder what was wrong with the ExpressEditor

You appear, my friend, to have answered your own question.

 

[hot air baboon]

....today's front page has a Battle of Britain photo....they've identified a Hurricane as a Spitfire... ( shakes head slowly in disbelief )

 

[yield]

Scandinavia’s errors: lessons for Greece and Britain
02 Jul 2015

They should read Scandinavian unexceptionalism: Culture, Markets and the Failure of Third-Way Socialism, a brilliant new book by Nima Sanandaji, a Swedish author, published by the Institute of Economic Affairs

Factually incorrect Koch sponsored libertarian drivel.

 

[Belushi]

Top piece in the Telegraph today bemoaning the fact that our 'indigenous working class' are workshy wankers compared to those hard working immigrants, and letting us know it's okay to describe Chinese children as 'moon faced'

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/educatio...among-the-working-classes.html?fb_ref=Default

 

[frogwoman]

David’s parents moved here from China to give their moon-faced boy the best possible chance


what??!

 

[Belushi]

Nice use of the tragic death of that 7 year old boy on a building site last week as well

 

[DotCommunist]

Thomas inherited his brilliance

let me just stop you right there...

 

[Pickman's model]

Top piece in the Telegraph today bemoaning the fact that our 'indigenous working class' are workshy wankers compared to those hard working immigrants, and letting us know it's okay to describe Chinese children as 'moon faced'

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/educatio...among-the-working-classes.html?fb_ref=Default

what's most surprising about that is that it isn't in the guardian.

 

[Pickman's model]

after so many years you'd have thought they'd be able to spell madeleine.

 

[stavros]

after so many years you'd have thought they'd be able to spell madeleine.

It's long been accused of becoming more like the Mail, but maybe it's covering its bases by also crossing over into the Guardian market.

 

[stavros]

Obviously mindful of their massive socialist readership and anxious to dissuade them from voting Labour, today's front page bellows "Corbyn refuses to meet the Queen".

 

[nino_savatte]

The abysmal Simon Heffer uses the Paris atrocity to cheerlead for Le Pen. Naturally, his column has attracted all manner of fash, racists and xenophobes, who give us the benefit of their 'wisdom'.

First, he cites Le Figaro and why not? He's a Tory.

The website of Le Figaro, the conservative French newspaper, proclaimed that there was “war in the heart of Paris”. It is a mood widely shared by the French people, whose attitudes have themselves been radicalised by these terrible events.

Cue the call for "western civilisation" to be "saved".

Above all, we must realise that although this atrocity will change things in France quite profoundly, it is an alarm call to the rest of Europe, to us, and to the whole of Western civilisation. We are all at war with Islamic extremism.

The 128 people murdered in Paris could just as easily have been murdered in London, Berlin, Amsterdam or Rome. French politicians now see clearly that these attacks are a game-changer in terms of how their nation protects itself against this terrorism: so must the rest of Europe’s political class.

Et voila! Le pièce de résistance!

The French press has for months been forecasting that Marine Le Pen’s Front National could win two or possibly even three of the 22 regions in metropolitan France, and warning that such a result would be an electoral earthquake for the country.

Although Mme Le Pen has cleaned up her party from the overtly racist, anti-Semitic and homophobic entity it was under her father, Jean-Marie Le Pen – from whom she is, as a result, estranged – she has been the only high-profile politician to warn consistently of the dangers of the large numbers of Muslims in France, and of their failure to integrate properly into French society.

Then he plugs a dodgy book.

In his highly controversial novel Soumission [Submission], published the day of the Charlie Hebdo attack, Michel Houellebecq predicted a France that, at the 2022 presidential election, faced a choice in the final round between Mme Le Pen and an Islamist.

In his novel, the Islamist wins and proceeds to Islamise France, because the main parties of the French Left and Right, pushed to the margins in the first round, throw their weight behind him in order to keep Mme Le Pen out.

Paris terror attacks an alarm bell for liberal, borderless Europe

 

[stavros]

I saw Heffer as he was leaving Chelmsford station a few months ago. To my great surprise it looked like he managed to fit through the ticket barriers.

 

[bi0boy]

An article on business rates

It features a picture of a Cambridge street encaptioned "Shops in the North..." featuring a person on a badly airbrushed "unicycle". The same picture they used in this 2013 article, at which time they seemed to know where it was taken.

 

[stavros]

It features a picture of a Cambridge street encaptioned "Shops in the North..."

Cambridge is north of both London and Oxford.

 

[stavros]

They seem to do it every fortnight, but the current issue of Private Eye could almost have a whole pull-out section on the current travails at the Telegraph. The mole(s) obviously still haven't been found.

 

[bogbrush]

Conrad Black. It's never been the same since Bill Deedes, I didn't care much for Hastings.

 

[goldenecitrone]

Conrad Black. It's never been the same since Bill Deedes, I didn't care much for Hastings.

Who better to comment on the Telegraph's journey down the U-bend.

 

[stavros]

I didn't care much for Hastings.

Why not? It's got a beach, and a pier.

 

[ViolentPanda]

Why not? It's got a beach, and a pier.

And an atmosphere of human decay.

Rather like Sir Max, when you think about it.

 

[danny la rouge]

Telegraph Media Group | ICO

 

[Maurice Picarda]

That's a weird decision. When newspapers decide which party they support, and shout about it to the readers, it's essentially an editorial and commentary decision*. It's nothing to do with marketing or commercial operations. Hope they appeal.

*Yes, yes, lizards control the media, those of the proprietor's prejudices that the advertisers don't object to, etc etc. But in terms of how newspapers actually work, the point stands.

 

[DotCommunist]

why would they bother to appeal for 30k, its chump change. Not to me obviously, but that lot could swallow it and smile.

 

[danny la rouge]

That's a weird decision. When newspapers decide which party they support, and shout about it to the readers, it's essentially an editorial and commentary decision*. It's nothing to do with marketing or commercial operations. Hope they appeal.

Not sure what ground they'd appeal on. The contravention was Regulation 22(2) of PECR.

 

[Maurice Picarda]

I thought it hinged on people who had opted in for editorial communication getting what was judged to be marketing communication?