Yazan: Sara | 17 February 2010 | 1 Comment
Categories: newspapers
What is is with the Daily Mail and the death of gay men? First it was the outrageous bigotry of Jan Moir on the death of Stephen Gately; today Mail journalist Geoffrey Levy turns the paper’s moral fire onto Ray Gosling. With the headline ‘Brilliant, eccentric BBC film-maker Ray Gosling says he killed his dying [...]
Yazan: Sara | 12 February 2010 | No Comments
Categories: marriage, newspapers
As well as the appalling racist cartoon, the Daily Mail has also used their more usual tactic of a screaming, outraged headline to grab readers’ attention today. Labour’s legacy: Marriage rates plummet to the lowest level since 1862 As Gordon Brown’s Labour government faced mounting claims it has failed to support the institution, it emerged [...]
Yazan: Sara | 18 January 2010 | 1 Comment
Categories: crime, criminal justice, newspapers
An article in today’s Daily Mail shows all the signs of a cut and shut story which has seriously lost its way. The piece entitled ‘Minor ‘crimes’ of the middle classes raking in a £400m fortune for cash-hungry councils’ starts with the usual Mailesque jibe at fines for putting your rubbish bin out on the [...]