MetaFilter posts tagged with press and UK

Her Name was Lucy Meadows

Charlemagne In Sweatpants — Sun, 24 Mar 2013 21:30:43 -0800

Popular transgender Lancashire teacher Lucy Meadows was found dead last Tuesday. Blame has quickly fallen on an inflammatory Daily Mail article by Richard Littlejohn, which has lead to a petition to sack the writer. Is this fair? Jane Fae at the New Statesman says it doesn't matter, while the New Scostsman calls it 'monstering'. The f word blog and the Guardian have longer articles on the case and the issues surrounding it.

Report of the UK Leveson inquiry into the conduct of the press published

rjs — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 05:44:45 -0800

"For the seventh time in less than 70 years, a report has been commissioned by the Government which has dealt with concerns about the press. It was sparked by public revulsion about a single action – the hacking of the mobile phone of a murdered teenager. From that beginning, the scope of the Inquiry was expanded to cover the culture, practices and ethics of the press in its relations with the public, with the police, with politicians and, as to the police and politicians, the conduct of each."

The report, in four volumes of around 500 pages each, is available for download.

SAUSAGE MAN WINS ACCOLADE

Acheman — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 03:09:22 -0800

GUNMAN SEEN OFF WITH MUG --- DEALER SOLD TEA TO COPS --- MICE FORCE PENSIONER OUT OF HOME --- Just another day for the South London Press. The South London Press has been covering the boroughs of Lambeth, Southwark, Lewisham and Wandsworth since 1865. The flickr group 'SOUTH LONDON PRESS' documents the SLP's particularly poetic sandwich boards, from the sublime to the spectacular via the poignant and the merely everyday.

Cut, paste, cut, paste

DanCall — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 11:39:01 -0800

"‘Churnalism’ is a news article that is published as journalism, but is essentially a press release without much added." Churnalism.com is a site created by the British charity Media Standards Trust, which lets you input the text of a press release to compare it with the text of news articles in the British media. A couple of examples: A research study from a polling company is over 90% churned in the Daily Mail A press release from the NHS is churned to varying degrees by 14 different newspapers The Churnalism FAQ has more background. Also, earlier on Metafilter, how the press repeat and amplify stories that aren't true.

Whatever happened to the heroes?

Artw — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 10:12:32 -0800

Dear Everett True, NME and Q don’t love music any less than you do… a revealing blog entry on the music press. From Collapse Board, who also do an awesome song of the day.

Sleepwalking into Oblivion

Artw — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 14:24:36 -0800

Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger on paywalls and the future of journalism.

Shame of the Survivors

permafrost — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 08:29:40 -0800

In 1996, sixteen children and one adult died in Dublane, Scotland after Thomas Hamilton walked into a school armed with four handguns. In 2009, journalist Paula Murray tracked down and befriended several of the survivors on Facebook, waited until they turned eighteen, and then wrote this article for the Sunday Express. The Express have now pulled the original article from their site, hence the Flickr link. There's a post at Graham Linehan's blog which pretty much sums up my feelings on this. The UK Press Complaints Commission is looking into the story, but as Linehan points out it's not like they're known for savage tenacity or anything.

Unpopular premier slams popular press

Artw — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 13:19:40 -0800

The UK media is like a "Feral Beast", and is undermining Britain, says Tony Blair. Simon Kelner, editor of The Independent, responds. Some reasons why Blair might not be too keen on the press.

The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, and more...

anastasiav — Thu, 31 May 2007 19:08:36 -0800

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