I’ve been in central London quite a lot lately (as well as generally all over the place for weeks, which is why I’ve not been doing much in the way of blogging lately), so I’ve been delighted to be reacquainted with the horrors of the Evening Standard display boards.
Last Friday I couldn’t move for being [...]
Evening Boris strikes again
August 19th, 2008 5 Comments
Tags: bias · Evening Standard · media
Surprise! FAP report finds nothing, unless you read about it in the right-wing press
July 16th, 2008 7 Comments
In the least gobsmacking news in recent history, the ‘Forensic’ ‘Audit’ ‘Panel’ are today publishing their ‘investigation’s’ findings, which appear to amount to very little, but predictably that’s not how they’ve spun them in advance to right-wing ‘newspaper’ the Telegraph.
The Tory Troll gives the story the coverage it deserves.
Update: Lee Jasper has responded to the [...]
Tags: bias · blogs · forensic audit panel · media · spin
Ken and Ali ♥ Boris Watch
June 30th, 2008 1 Comment
From this afternoon’s LBC 97.3 programme, during a discussion about their common enemy, the right-wing press, between Ken Livingstone and his guest, Alistair Campbell:
Ken: It’s quite interesting at the moment, since Boris Johnson became Mayor, there’s been a real flurry of blogs, on the internet, and in actual fact, they’re doing a much better job [...]
Tags: blogs · Ken Livingstone · media
Forensic spin
June 8th, 2008 No Comments
Boris’s Tory Cronies LDA Hatchet Job Panel – he calls it the Forensic Audit Panel for short – has published its Interim Report today.
It’s a pathetic three pages long, but despite that I don’t actually have time to look at it properly myself today. It does appear to contain approximately nothing of any significance at [...]
Tags: forensic audit panel · lack of substance · media · spin