Category Archives: Media Integrity

Don’t feed the troll: The five stupidest Brendan O’Neill articles

By James Bloodworth | Published: May 16, 2013

To call Brendan O’Neill a professional contrarian would be to elevate him to the status of something he isn’t. Brendan O’Neill is a troll. A professional troll, but a troll nonetheless.

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(Graph) Number of times the word ‘scrounger’ has been used in UK newspapers since 1994

By James Bloodworth | Published: May 1, 2013

The dichotomy between “shirkers” on the one hand and “strivers” on the other is the backdrop against which the coalition is reforming welfare. Building the narrative, however, relies upon a friendly, nay compliant media.

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ITV has learnt nothing from the MMR/autism scandal

By James Bloodworth | Published: April 30, 2013

The current measles outbreak is in large part down to parents not getting their children vaccinated in the late nineties/early noughties because of misinformation about a link between the MMR vaccine and autism.

Not everyone has learnt from past mistakes, either.

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Scotland should opt into UK wide press regulation, say committee of MSPs

By Ed Jacobs | Published: April 28, 2013

As political leaders in Scotland once again meet today to discuss how to take forward the need for a reformed system of press regulation post-Leveson, a committee of MSPs has called for Scotland to opt into the UK wide Royal Charter proposal rather than going its own way.

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‘Baloney’ – the Mail’s campaign against life saving MMR vaccine

By James Bloodworth | Published: April 25, 2013

MMR safe? Baloney, according to Melanie Phillips.

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Social media martyrdom: lessons from the Paris Brown debacle

By Guest | Published: April 10, 2013

Yesterday Paris Brown, the country’s first Youth Crime Commissioner, resigned from her post thanks to the Mail’s digging up of ill-advised tweets she posted several years ago. A sad, but perhaps inevitable end to what was the opportunity of a lifetime for the young teenager from Kent.

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Is it any wonder, with our news media, that Paris Brown has opinions like this?

By Guest | Published: April 8, 2013

Ah, the Daily Mail. One of Britain’s most popular and well read newspapers which in the past has seen fit to victimise those on benefits, transsexuals, homosexuals, asylum seekers, migrants and many more, now finds itself spitting venom at someone who isn’t even legally an adult.

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Is the Daily Mail killing children?

By James Bloodworth | Published: April 5, 2013

No. Obviously not. Saying such a thing would constitute sensationalist reporting of the crudest kind, and I’m not going to resort to that.

But remember this:

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The Daily Mail: How the poor die and how the rich die

By James Bloodworth | Published: April 3, 2013

The Daily Mail’s reaction today to the tragedy of Michael Philpott’s multiple manslaughter of his six children is not only quite disgusting, but it also shows the paper’s double standards:

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The media’s role in the death of Lucy Meadows

By Guest | Published: March 26, 2013

Lucy Meadows, a transsexual woman formerly called Nathan Upton, committed suicide earlier this month, the victim of a media witch-hunt. In December, Daily Mail columnist Richard Littlejohn published an attack on her that aimed to hound her out of her job as a primary school teacher.

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