Please get your facts right.

Just loving the first comment on the Mail's website under the headline Brotherss who tortured get just five years

Please get your facts right.
They were not sentenced to "just FIVE years". They were given indeterminate sentences which means they can be incarcerated for their whole lives if necessary.
Yeah, but let's not let facts get in the way of an opportunity to have a good old rant about 'Broken Britain' and how our justice system is a 'joke' and we need the BNP to sort it out. You know Mail readers love all that stuff.

Mail accuses the Beeb of producing seven tons of carbon dioxide as it covers Copenhagen.

More BBC bashing this morning courtesy of the Daily Mail which reports that the corportation

is sending 35 people to next month's climate change talks in Copenhagen - creating as much carbon dioxide as an African village does in a whole year.
its delegation of 12 presenters, along with a backup team of researchers, producers and camera crews, will spend up to two weeks in the Danish capital on expenses to cover the global summit.

Daily Mail gets the Downfall treatment

Iain Dale complaint about the Daily Mail is not upheld by the PCC

The news that Iain Dale's complaint against the Daily Mail under clause 12 of the PCC guidelines was not upheld came as a surprise to some

In summary

The piece reported that the complainant was on the shortlist of people applying to be the Conservative candidate for the parliamentary constituency of Bracknell. It described him as ‘overtly gay', and referred to an interview he had given to Pink News in which he encouraged its readers to attend the open primary, saying it was ‘charming how homosexuals rally like-minded chaps to their cause'.
The complainant said that the article was pejorative and snide, and that his sexual orientation was irrelevant to his decision to stand as a parliamentary candidate. The implication of the word ‘overtly' was that he flaunted his sexuality, which was not the case. Read in conjunction with the comment about homosexuals sticking together, the article was homophobic.

According to the PCC

the fact that he had taken offence did not in itself mean that Clause 12 of the Code had been breached. The particular terms used, and the context of the item itself, were important here

According to Roy Greenslade,the

adjudication that illustrates the fine line that must be drawn between a newspaper's freedom to be offensive and whether that offensiveness constitutes discrimination.

He concludes that

We have to allow freedom of expression. We have to avoid censorship. And we did not set up the PCC, nor construct a code of practice, in order to deal with subjective matters of taste and discretion.

Agree?

Mail's old style response blown away by new media

There is as expected much coverage of the Jan Moir controversy in the media this morning.

I do like this from Jack Riley though in the Independent who writes that The Daily Mail's response was a case of old versus new media.

Whilst the Twitterati and Facebook brigade were rallying against the article he says

in a scramble to save face, the Mail's editors, and in particular those of its online team, must have been bewildered when efforts to soften the blow by editing the headline to the piece online only attracted more derision; the change was documented on Twitter photosharing website TwitPic within minutes.

The Mail uncovers more BBC subversion

That prolific hater of the BBC,The Daily Mail has found a story to get its teeth into today.

The paper reports that

The winner of a Blue Peter and Royal Mint competition to design a coin for the 2012 Olympics is the daughter of a newly-appointed BBC boss,

her father is the new boss of the BBC Natural History Unit, Andrew Jackson.although as the paper points out

The announcement of Mr Jackson's appointment to the Bristol-based unit was made on July 6, but he is not due to start work until the end of the month. The winning design was chosen from anonymous entries by a panel of judges on July 16.

Ht-Martin Belam

Mail readers turn on Melanie Philips

More Daily Mail bashing as its star columnist Melanie Philips goes on the offensive again this time over the Tory party's defence of homosexuality.

But it seems that now even her own readers are turning against her.

As Pickled politics points out some of the comments are not the usual Mail readers

How can you blame gays for broken heterosexual marriages. You really have lost the plot.

Do you really think that there is some vast, underground conspiracy by gay groups to convert the rest of us? Can you point to any evidence at all for this?

Children from fractured homes do worse in general in every single area of their lives
That is wrong, I am 12 and I am top in my school of 800 people, I have been moved up 2 years and all of the people that I know who feel at home in a library don't have married parents.

A lesson on how not to do journalism by the Daily Mail

The Daily Mail's attempts at reigniting the Iraq controversy are frowned upon by John Rentoul writing at Independent minds this morning

You take a magazine interview that is three weeks old, the main points of which have been reported in a rival newspaper, and park the most odious, insinuating form of words as an introduction on top of it, thus:

Utterly unrepentant, a stranger to self-doubt and still insisting his conscience is clear - an unwittingly revealing interview with Tony Blair...

Yes, it is the Daily Mail again.

Mail on the attack over Facebookism

I see that Birmingham University's development of an MA in social media has come under attcak from the Daily Mail.

Senior lecturer in Digital media at the University Paul Bradshaw launched a discussion over its core contents last week and described it as a way to save journalism

graduates should not be going into the industry at entry level (after all, who is recruiting these days?), but at a more senior, strategic level - or, equally likely, to establish startups themselves. I’m hoping these are the people who are going to save journalism.

The Mail no doubt in its Little Englander guise sees it as an MA in facebook and have even got a quote from a disenchanted student who says

It's of no interest to me whatsoever. Virtually all of the content of this course is so basic it can be self-taught.
'In fact most people know all this stuff already. I think it's a complete waste of university resources.'

Groundbreaking stuff from the Mail

I picked up this twitter link from under the headline Has the Daily Mail run out of stories last night

See if you agree

Life can be cruel sometimes - as this pigeon would undoubtedly agree.
One minute it could not believe its luck when it came across a whole bagel discarded in Brixton, South London.
The next, it had delivered a mighty peck which threw the tasty morsel up in the air - only to land around the bird's neck and agonisingly out of reach of its beak.
The pigeon was left having to wait for a shower of rain to make the bagel soggy and fall off, or a fellow member of the flock to nibble it free.

Americans will soon be able to read the Mail on their Kindle's

Interesting story via Paid Content.

The Daily Mail is to subject users of the Kindle electronic reader to the wonders of Middle England.

James Bromley, MD of Daily Mail's website Mail Online, said, "We're in talks with Amazon to launch in the US in the near future and we're also talking about the UK version. The advantages are quite simply the quality and size of the screen."

via new media age

20 things the Mail says will cause cancer

The Daily Mail's revelations that twitter can cause you cancer brought much hilarity yesterday.

So much so that the Daily Dust drew up a list that found 20 things that the Mail has said will lead to you developing the disease.

Besides the usual suspects the paper has come up with some strange items including,

PRINGLES, HULA-HOOPS & PRINCE CHARLES’ ORGANIC CRISPS

and

TALCUM POWDER

Did the Soviets discuss bin collections?

There will be many differing opinions on whether it is correct to let an ex KJB agent buy the London evening standard.Perhaps another blog post at a later date but I found this bit in the story quite amusing

Lebedev said he had read the Evening Standard and other British newspapers when he was a young spy at the Soviet embassy in London in the late 1980s.
"I had to read every newspaper. I was there for that," he recalled. "I had to read the FT, the Guardian, Standard and the Daily Mail." The Standard was "a very good newspaper" with some "brilliant journalists," Lebedev said, adding that the Daily Mail was a "highly influential" title that closely reflected British public attitudes.

I have visions of KJB officers having long discussions about the frequency of bin collections

Update Guido points out that Lebedev won't be the first KJB officer to own a UK newspaper

former Daily Mirror owner, Labour MP, socialist plutocrat, pension Labour Party donor, thief and long term Soviet asset: Robert Maxwell.

New Yorkers will get a taste of Middle England

The Daily Mail is to be printed in New York.

On the back of UK news sites proving popular across the Atlantic,the paper has agreed a deal with Jersy based Alpha Graphics to print and distribute from January 2009.

Paid Content reports that

Mail Online has built up a large overseas audience: 67.8 percent of its 17.8 million unique users in September were from outside the UK according to ABCe, and most of those were from the US. But it remains to be seen whether UK newspapers can replicate foreign success in print format

Observer claims Mail is looking at acquiring the Indy

Hidden away in the business section of the Observer is a story by James Robinson that the Mail group is looking at acquiring the Independent.

According to James Robinson

Daily Mail and General Trust is believed to be considering a bid for the Independent and its Sunday sister title, part of Independent News & Media. It is unclear whether discussions between the two companies have taken place, or if a deal will be struck, but industry sources claim the titles could be off-loaded for £1, with DMGT taking on the loss-making papers' liabilities

Is this a running concern? James continues

DMGT executives are thought to be wary of acquiring the papers because DMGT has debts of its own, but industry sources say the fact that sales at both titles are under pressure could present them with a rare opportunity to acquire a valuable national newspaper brand.
Privately, sources close to IN&M say the papers are not for sale, though they concede that rival groups have offered to take on some back office functions, including human resources and accounts

Mail turns from Poles to the Gaelic community

The Mail is not happy about the new BBC Digital Gaelic network this morning.

Just in case you don't get the Maths.That works out at £365 per person.Now how much is the license fee?

Dacre-Has he given up on Gordon Brown?

Conservative Home asks whether Mail editor Paul Dacre,seen as the most influential newspaper editor in the Guardian's 100 earlier this week has given up on Gordon Brown.

Take a look at the paper's leading article this morning for more proof

From the very beginning, this paper has supported David Cameron. We are the first to concede, however, that we've had more than the occasional doubt about his substance and conviction.
That is why we feel an obligation to record what a remarkably good few weeks he has had.

Certainly this time last year,as with many of the electorate,the paper was rather sympatheic to the Prime Minister combined with some anxiety over David Cameron.

Its leaders over the last three days,firstly rounding on the Home Secretary,then on the Cahncellor and finally today's looks like the paper has noe firmly planted its flag at the door of the Old Etonian.Who next Murdoch or maybe even Rushbridger?