Friday 10 February 2012

Daily Mail And Integrity

The Daily Mail publishes a lot of tosh. It exposes large amounts of flesh whilst decrying the practice. It was vilified, as is wholly predictable on the BBC's Question Time last night. A member of the audience said that surely we control the Daily Mail, because we don't have to buy it and that is absolutely true and the essential point.

I just stumbled onto the programme at this point, but was then shocked to see that media integrity was being debated with Alistair Campbell being one of the guests! Surely he was one of the worst offenders when he wrote nonsense as a pressman? But then, the most damning aspect, the one that completely undermines any utterance of his against a paper, even the Daily Mail, is that the paper may make some sensational claims, but it didn't create lies to start a war. One of the guests most certainly did.

Indeed, the Daily Mail, many years ago shouted loud and long about who the killers of Stephen Lawrence were and invited them to sue. And the Daily Mail has recently been vindicated for pointing out the shady dealings of young Rothschild and Oleg Deripaska (which unsurprisingly had Mandelson hovering around the edge).

I find the Daily Mail accessible, but tawdry at times and can be quite boring. But every so often, they have a piece that speaks volumes; many other publications cannot seem to pluck up the courage to do so. In the Sunday Telegraph Christopher Booker frequently reports on matters of great significance, that the rest of the paper ignores.

But any offence the Daily Mail may commit or cause pales in comparison to the effects Campbell had, by making his boss's lying that bit more slick, like some witches' familiar.

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