[News] Daily Express

[Taybha]

Edited by Lord Haw Haw

 

[Machiavelli]

These tabloids have an endgame, like they had with the EU, like with the BBC. The lockdown is going to hurt their proprietors interests over and above how we're all going to be affected economically.

After this is over and we're looking for ways to pay the debt mountain back, the tax havens which so benefit the proprietors are going to come under a lot more pressure.

The papers can't come out and say it now, because of public support for the NHS etc, but you'll see the normal MO come into sight in the coming weeks, of gradually more and more trying to undermine the lockdown.

Yes, this just about sums it up.

 

[blue-shifted]

People queuing for admission to the West Pier.

Ha, yeh wasn't that the chain peir in the background?

 

[Eeyore]

No, I don't think much of the standard of journalism in The Express. Just amused by the amount of frothing at the mouth induced by an article and headline which appear to be wholly accurate.
The picture is of a crowded promenade, which is exactly what we are told we must not do. Would a picture of broad acres of empty beach been appropriate to the article?

No, just a picture that wasn't placed to deceive folk into thinking it was something it wasn't.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

James Cracknell (Olympic rower) made a complaint against the Daily Mail about photo manipulation.

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[vegster]

Very good points.

The Mirror was once called The Daily Worker, was it not? Without checking it's history, it never struck me as much of a Labour supporting paper for reasons other than market share. Captain Bob bought it, but he was a 'socialist' for reasons of convenience only, and actually one of the shitter capitalist megalomaniacs of the day (for the benefit of younger readers). When Piers Morgan was editor they ran an Achtung! headline with a drawing of Stuart Pierce wearing a tin hat and carrying a gun just before an England Germany game. FFS. I can very easily see a company running a right wing and a left wing paper at the same time to corner the entire market of thickies who need their news infused with their colour of choice. The Evening Standard is another case in point - owned by the people who own the Daily Fail, but with content packaged to appeal to the metropolitan elite.

However. I don't object to government propaganda. If there is a real need to up the ante on social distancing (is there? I don't go out much these days) then why not manipulate us a bit? The problem here is that anyone with half a brain will know that Brighton sea front is not awash with happy holiday makers, and once the fakery has been rumbled it just makes the paper and their pal Patel look cheap and duplicitous. However, since it will make the paper and Patel look (etc etc) only to people who use social media or browse other outlets that might question the photo, jobza good 'un. Net curtain twitchers everywhere else in the UK will have their prejudices about debauched homosexualist Brighton reaffirmed, and will stay in doors with a sense of indignant and sanctimonious superiority. I have no real problem with that, oddly. But there again I am so used to being lied to (even in the scientific research journals I read) that its water off a duck's back to me now.

Not old enough to remember The Daily Worker, but will trust you on that ! I feel sorry for the Germans, having to cope with our obsession with WW2 and then newspapers doing these jingoistic headlines. I bet Stuart Pearce, patriotic Englishman that he is, would probably tell a newspaper to piss right off if they said " Stuart, pose with this rifle and this WW2 tin hat for a couple of photo's " on the eve of England v Germany.

However too many newspapers have this " 'wi us or agin' us " standpoint and every situation requires a " War Footing " response from the papers, I really think that we need a Leveson #2 enquiry.

 

[Eeyore]

Brighton seafront yesterday. When will they learn ?

 

[Mtoto]

Very good points.

The Mirror was once called The Daily Worker, was it not?

No, it wasn't. You're thinking of the Morning Star. Or possibly the Daily Herald, which turned into the Sun.

The Mirror was Harmsworth-owned and aimed at a middle-class audience until shortly before WWII, when it was sold and turned into a working-class paper.

https://www.theguardian.com/media/greenslade/2011/dec/06/dailymail-oswald-mosley

 

[Thunder Bolt]

It worked with Grenfell. Blame the Fire Service, blame the residents, instead of blaming those who passed the building regulations, those who bought cheap cladding, and the person who closed down ten London fire stations.

Now when the CV19 death toll rises, don't blame the government, deflect blame onto the Selfish Lawbreakers who won't stay indoors. Modus Operandi.

 

[nicko31]

Aside of the dodgy photo (the Express is run on a shoe string these days and it show), I guess the crowds do give reason why there has been a big fall in shoplifting. Thank you Priti...

 

[vegster]

Just out of curiosity, is The Express lying? Has Priti Patel not in fact warned people about breaking the restrictions? Just asking ........................

I think Johnson, Hancock, Raab, scientific advisors, senior figures in the NHS and Police chief constables have all warned about people breaking restrictions, this may be a little about re-building Patel's image as " competent " as we near the constructive/ unfair dismissal case from her recently resigned chief civil servant.

 

[Machiavelli]

James Cracknell (Olympic rower) made a complaint against the Daily Mail about photo manipulation.

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Oh, so it's not just one bad apple. They're all at it. Who'd have thought it?

 

[Uncle Spielberg]

The paper that declared last November there would be 80 days of snow and in fact there were none and the warmest winter for 400 years. No doubt the next winter will be the worst since 1962, again and we will all be in a freezer with 10 foot snowdrifts

 

[blue-shifted]

Oh, so it's not just one bad apple. They're all at it. Who'd have thought it?

And this is worse. At least with the Brighton one it was an unedited picture of Brighton. With James Cracknell, they've photoshopped someone into a photo for the sake of creating a news story.

Desperate and contemptuous in equal measure.

 

[The Clamp]

No, I don't think much of the standard of journalism in The Express. Just amused by the amount of frothing at the mouth induced by an article and headline which appear to be wholly accurate.
The picture is of a crowded promenade, which is exactly what we are told we must not do. Would a picture of broad acres of empty beach been appropriate to the article?

Maybe don't write the article at all? Seeing as it's made up bullshat?
Or do a story about "Even in the South's busiest seaside town people are observing the regulations".

They were right to use that picture because it backs up their lie. Not a great defence.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

And this is worse. At least with the Brighton one it was an unedited picture of Brighton. With James Cracknell, they've photoshopped someone into a photo for the sake of creating a news story.

Desperate and contemptuous in equal measure.

It was his Dad but instead of them being over two metres apart (as shown in the second picture) the gap in between has been removed.

 

[maltaseagull]

Putting the Express bullshit aside that woman is a fvcking moron

You mean the Chaser?

Hardly

 

[el punal]

Ha, yeh wasn't that the chain peir in the background?

Yep! You got it in one.

 

[Nobby Horton's Knob]

Putting the Express bullshit aside that woman is a fvcking moron

That's a bit harsh.....

















On morons....

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

No, it wasn't. You're thinking of the Morning Star. Or possibly the Daily Herald, which turned into the Sun.

The Mirror was Harmsworth-owned and aimed at a middle-class audience until shortly before WWII, when it was sold and turned into a working-class paper.

https://www.theguardian.com/media/greenslade/2011/dec/06/dailymail-oswald-mosley

Apologies - you are absolutely correct. That will teach me to blather without doing my research.

Lord Rothermere....so indeed the Mirror has even less credibility as a labour paper than even I gave it credit.

The Daily Worker was indeed the Morning Star.