Why Team Corbyn might be on a loser attacking the trustworthiness of BBC...
The real problem, surely, is Labour’s poor media operation The whole reshuffle affair has dominated the headlines for far too long and that’s not been good for the image of Corbyn’s Labour. As Damian...
View ArticleThe Independent bows to the inevitable and will stop its printed edition at...
Pick of the bunch for me pic.twitter.com/kRK8GNJ99F — Jack Blanchard (@Jack_Blanchard_) February 12, 2016 How long before others go online only? The big media news this lunchtime is that the Indy and...
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2016 Oscar betting: Roger marks your card
…….. and now for something completely different 2016 Oscars. The most competitive year I can remember and an unusual one. Nine Irish nominations in the major categories though none for blacks which...
View ArticleThis morning’s Brussels attacks are a terrible tragedy not something on which...
How a Telegraph columnist responded to the Brussels attacks. pic.twitter.com/akuhYcObTu — Mike Smithson (@MSmithsonPB) March 22, 2016 Clearly the news today has been totally dominated by the attacks in...
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Read all about it. The news sources that matter nowadays
Alastair Meeks on the media influence on the EU referendum The EU referendum has turned into a battle between the Prime Minister and the right-leaning newspapers. In 1992 the Sun hubristically...
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If Zac loses London and the Brexiters fail it will say a lot about the...
If the London mayoral race and the BREXIT referendum go according to the betting then it will be very much against what most of the press has been promoting. The Sadiq Khan campaign for the Mayoralty...
View ArticleDavid Herdson on tonight’s big European election
Who is on for douze points? Hello and welcome once again to this European extravaganza; this celebration of all that is best and brightest about this continent; this joyous coming together of nations...
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Leave’s major advantage in the last three weeks of the campaign. The Tory...
The Sun front page from last Friday, after another poor set of net immigration figures for Cameron This referendum could boil down to Cameron v The Tory Press. If Cameron prevails, it could be good...
View ArticleCorbyn found his voice on Thursday. Unfortunately, it was echoed by his...
One of the most remarkable aspects of Corbyn’s Labour is its attitude to the media Alistair Campbell would be turning in his grave were it not for the fact that he’s not dead. Not only did the Labour...
View ArticleMemo to Seamus Milne: Your boss, Mr. Corbyn, needs to have a ready answer in...
Jeremy Corbyn ducks question on general election; accuses @LibbyWienerITV of 'harrassment'https://t.co/6IPEIahDbj pic.twitter.com/ZUsiTrBbRX — ITV News (@itvnews) November 5, 2016 The LAB media...
View ArticleIn the week the Article 50 case is heard before the Supreme Court, the public...
81% of the public have trust in the enemies of the people, just 24% have trust in journalists @IpsosMORI finds https://t.co/RhdrJI6BYj pic.twitter.com/THZUzyOJ50 — TSE (@TSEofPB) December 4, 2016...
View ArticleThe Sun re-does its classic front page on the day of the 1992 general election
This was from election day in April 1992 Tomorrow's Sun front page is a straight lift of its paper on the day of the 1992 General Election pic.twitter.com/jpKmFRH3ty — Mike Smithson (@MSmithsonPB)...
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Remember when the BBC’s Woman’s Hour asked David Cameron and David Davis what...
With all the fuss today about the Daily Mail’s “legs” front page let us not forget that the BBC can sometimes stray into what could be described as sexist. In November 2005 when David Cameron and...
View ArticleMaybe a reason why LAB gets poor media coverage is that the Corbyn-appointed...
This. Every Lab MP should read this & be embarrassed. The Lib Dems do vg rebuttal, quotes and opposition research… pic.twitter.com/Ts9OiXewPY — Sam Coates Times (@SamCoatesTimes) March 30, 2017 It...
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New “media trust” polling finds the BBC top and the Sun bottom
I’m sure people will correct meif I’m wrong but I think this polling is a first. We see from time to time several different forms of “trust” polling but as far as I can recall these latest findings...
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Brexit-backing Sun & Mail seen as having the most negative impact on society...
New YouGov poll ranks the main national papers I can’t recall any similar polling – looking at how the main national papers are perceived in terms of the impact they are having on society. At a time...
View ArticleFake news and how to deal with it
Russian propaganda—whether on chemical weapons in Syria, the nerve-agent attack in the UK, or the downing of the Malaysian Air flight over Ukraine—rarely attempts to explain the evidence but only to...
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Theresa May’s staunchest supporter in the media announces his departure but...
Picture: Depending on your view the (in)famous Daily Mail front page the day after Theresa May called a snap election. Last night it was announced that the editor of The Daily Mail, Paul Dacre, would...
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The places where people would most like to live mostly voted Remain
Away from Brexit for moment with some polling on what are seen as Britain’s desirable locations to live. With Channel 4 going through a process of choosing a location outside London for a new creative...
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The end of an era. Sir Paul Dacre is said to have edited his last Daily Mail
We can expect fewer powerful pro-Brexit front pages like these? The biggest political development over the weekend, I’d suggest, was the report in the Observer about the replacement of Paul Dacre as...
View ArticleThe Daily Mail’s change of tone Brexit should help Mrs May sell her Brexit deal
Something feels different about the headlines in today's Daily Mail pic.twitter.com/LCFgwnOrlu — Jack Blanchard (@Jack_Blanchard_) September 12, 2018 At this rate the Daily Mail will soon be backing...
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After 30 years the curtains close on regular Guardian/ICM polls
The longest lasting poll series in British politics comes to an end. This is something of a sad moment in British politics. The longest lasting polling series, ICM for the Guardian, has come to an end...
View ArticleComing up at 2100 GMT on Channel 4 – Brexit the movie
PBers in the UK, no doubt, will be glued to their TVs Join the discussion while it happens here. I’ve little doubt it will cause controversy and maybe shape perceptions of what happened. It, of...
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On the eve of the first ballot some of this morning’s front pages
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The revolution will not be televised
The sleeper topic that will corrode the government’s ratings Save the TV Licence for the over 75's. #BBC pic.twitter.com/50UPYjonJi — HWYEB (@hwyeb) June 12, 2019 Allow me to tell you the most...
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How GE2019 is being treated on the front pages
Here are some of today’s front pages and I don’t think there is anything as memorable as the Daily Mail at the same time in the process in 2017. There is much less Tory triumphalism. Its front page...
View ArticleFree speech, one each. The myth of the oppressed rightwinger and what it...
This is a good thing (from Toby Young's Free Speech Union) pic.twitter.com/OffFpulsB2— Ed West (@edwest) February 24, 2020 Life has hardly been tough for Toby Young. Admitted to Oxford University with...
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Print journalism needs a revolution to avoid a slow death: micro-payments are...
From Sky News But it will only work with industry-wide collaboration When did you last buy a newspaper? I’ve no idea when I did. It was certainly before this year and then will have been the local...
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As we head into August the impact on holidays becomes the big pandemic story
Have ministers panicked? Today’s front pages give a good representation of the main pandemic stories and what the papers think are the issues most likely to impact on their readers. Once again the...
View ArticleAnd now what’s dividing the nation – the Beeb’s decision to play Rule...
At last an issue where there's a huge divide between the parties – How Rule Britannia is performed at the Last Night Of The Proms show. Should there be lyrics or no lyrics? pic.twitter.com/123ndeEuYS—...
View ArticleThis Daily Express WH2020 “poll” is not what it seems
Daily Express readers give their backing to the racist pussy grabberhttps://t.co/G0SLKkOpwJ— Mike Smithson (@MSmithsonPB) October 13, 2020 Like many PBers I am following WH2020 polling very closely at...
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The dangerous first step towards the end of the World Wide Web as we know it
Richard Tyndall on the Australian government move against Facebook So one day, when this terrible virus is finally under some semblance of control, we will be able to go back to the pub. We will be...
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Not a good Daily Mail front page tomorrow for the PM
Increasingly over the past week or so it has been the Mail that appears to have the most negative coverage of Mr. Johnson. Above is the latest for tomorrow’s paper. Of all the papers the Mail is...
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Publish and be Damned?
2 reports into events long ago: 34 and 26 years. The main protagonists are dead. Should anyone care, as the Today programme put it somewhat indelicately, about one murder so very long ago (Daniel...
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