why the daily mail's going down the drain

[two sheds]

From a Hacked Off email yesterday:

“The Daily Mail is attaching Black names to racist, ghost-written content. This is a major media scandal.”

Last weekend it was reported that the Daily Mail had manipulated its content by attributing prejudiced newspaper articles to people of colour - to fool readers.

It’s a highly deceptive practice designed to stoke hate by giving the false appearance of voicing a minority group but suppressing them from using their own words.

Lester Holloway is the Editor of The Voice, the leading Black newspaper operating in the UK.

Writing for Hacked Off, Lester argues that from a journalistic point of view these revelations are more serious than making up quotes, or even inventing stories known to be false.

Lester adds,

“We must see accountability for the Mail, an investigation into the scale of the practice, and real change to ensure this never happens again.”

The Leveson-style press regulator, IMPRESS, has standards on attribution. IPSO, the Mail’s complaints-handler which is controlled by the press, has none.

 

[teqniq]

I saw something about this on Twitter about a week ago. A black woman said she had been approached by the Mail to put her name to a ghost written piece, she refused.

 

[two sheds]

That's up there with the Sun only ever giving the race of black people who were breaking the law and only stopping when one bloke kept complaining.

Worth a complaint to Complain I presume is the place.

 

[teqniq]

Here you go:

 

[PR1Berske]

Yes, there currently running with, EXCLUSIVE: Meghan Markle SMILES

 

[Pickman's model]

The mail keep it classy

 

[T & P]

Part of the Mail's 'greatest books', no less...

 

[stavros]

 

[stavros]

Definitely not complete bollocks, as I have it on good authority that they told Seward yesterday.

 

[PR1Berske]

 

[Pickman's model]

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Like a candle in the wind

 

[PR1Berske]

 

[stavros]

Peter Hitchens, the doyen of self-awareness.

 

[stavros]

This is interesting, in a seemingly positive piece on Starmer (I haven't read the actual story). Partly I get that they're trying to get in with the future government, lest they implement Leveson in full. However, one of Labour's headline policies is to get rid of non-doms, a status which Mail owner Jonathan Harmsworth has long held.

 

[Dogsauce]

Peter Hitchens, the doyen of self-awareness.

Christ, he’s grown a beard and filled out a bit. Kind of resembles an aging Beadle.

 

[gentlegreen]

This is interesting, in a seemingly positive piece on Starmer (I haven't read the actual story). Partly I get that they're trying to get in with the future government, lest they implement Leveson in full. However, one of Labour's headline policies is to get rid of non-doms, a status which Mail owner Jonathan Harmsworth has long held.

perhaps it's reverse psychology

 

[PR1Berske]

"Airpot"

 

[T & P]

"Airpot"


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They have corrected it now, but it goes to show what a cynical money making venture, insult to journalism that website is. It’s all about clicks and traffic and as fast turnover of new content as possible.

To the point whereby they don’t even have a full news section menu. Hell, they don’t even have a UK news section (but devote a whole one to the U.S. complete with secondary subjects). See screenshot below for the available news sections

 

[Serge Forward]

I'm shocked they don't have a "Woke" section on there.

 

[stavros]

"Airpot"


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Or "air pot":

 

[stavros]

Is print media allowed to be so flagrant in its bias? I don't know if it's from the disgraced ex-PM's DM column, or the reporting of news of whatever bullshit he's just spouted. If the latter that headline surely has to contravene some sort of balance regulation?

 

[Puddy_Tat]

Is print media allowed to be so flagrant in its bias? I don't know if it's from the disgraced ex-PM's DM column, or the reporting of news of whatever bullshit he's just spouted. If the latter that headline surely has to contravene some sort of balance regulation?

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are there balance regulations for the printed press?

don't remember the scum or the fail being particularly balanced before previous elections. or for that matter the mirror.

 

[Lurdan]

It's his weekly column - paywalled as 'premium content' online

BORIS JOHNSON: The nation doesn't really want Sir Keir or his tax-hiking, EU-loving, soft-on-illegal-migration agenda. There's still time for us to swerve from the cliff edge of Starmergeddon - Daily Mail Online (archived)

You're welcome.

 

[stavros]

are there balance regulations for the printed press?

I thought there were for news pieces, but not for opinion pieces. I know there are on telly, as KGB News gets its knuckles regularly rapped when their "newsreaders" go rogue. I might be wrong for print though.

 

[DaveCinzano]

are there balance regulations for the printed press?

don't remember the scum or the fail being particularly balanced before previous elections. or for that matter the mirror.

There are impartiality rules on broadcasters, but not on print media. “The Press, while free to editorialise and campaign, must distinguish clearly between comment, conjecture and fact.”

Print media - like broadcasters - are expected to adhere to rules on accuracy, and to correct mistakes.

 

[Dogsauce]

There are impartiality rules on broadcasters, but not on print media. “The Press, while free to editorialise and campaign, must distinguish clearly between comment, conjecture and fact.”

Print media - like broadcasters - are expected to adhere to rules on accuracy, and to correct mistakes.

And if they are caught out being inaccurate then the full weight of the regulator will land on them and they will have to print an apology in 8-point text at the bottom of page 37, say they’re really really sorry and won’t do it again this week.

 

[T & P]

I’m tempted to have this framed. Vintage stuff even by their own standards


Not even sure all those Mail headline generator websites out there could have done a better job. ‘Rampant wokery’ is fucking vintage stuff, and I for one salute the subeditor responsible for it

I do wish once the dust settles down in a few days, the Mail clarifies which Brexit freedoms they fear we’ll lose under Labour.

 

[Ax^]

hearing from mail reader

they fear Rayner more than Starmer ..

whole thing is a set up for keith to step down and let a women have a go at running the country

 

[Cerv]

rampant wokery is my DJ name

 

[FridgeMagnet]

Sounds like a porn star name