Comments on: How journalism works

By: Ian

Ian — Wed, 22 Sep 2004 13:52:00 +0000

I like the idea of the Sun criticising someone for exaggerating.

By: Bastien

Bastien — Wed, 22 Sep 2004 06:30:00 +0000

Very few Sun *readers* – it’ll affect their senior staff, board members and investors more, though. Which is why newspapers spend so much time honing their careful use of language and fallacious (but plausable) arguments.

And then they accuse our political leaders of being an intellectual elite…

By: Phil

Phil — Wed, 22 Sep 2004 05:06:00 +0000

"And the Lib Dems would hit anyone earning £100,000 or more with a 50 per cent basic rate of tax."

Which begs the question, just how many Sun readers is THAT going to affect?

By: john b

john b — Tue, 21 Sep 2004 19:25:00 +0000

Aw, just cos you joined the Dark Side doesn’t mean we all have to…

By: Laban Tall

Laban Tall — Tue, 21 Sep 2004 19:17:00 +0000

I thought it was really good. And most of the information in it came from the Labour Party, who are really getting into the language of law'n'order. Its liberating for PC types to be un-PC. Come on, let it out !

By: Michael

Michael — Tue, 21 Sep 2004 12:03:00 +0000

Apparently people wanting a job on Hansard are given a recording of a John Prescott speech and asked to turn it into coherent written English – and unlike the Sun example, this is (allegedly) entirely true!

By: Mystic mog

Mystic mog — Tue, 21 Sep 2004 11:18:00 +0000

Does that mean that "if its not in the Sun. its not worth reading" is untrue – I believe everything I read in the papers
mystic mog

By: Stephen Newton

Stephen Newton — Tue, 21 Sep 2004 10:54:00 +0000

…and those rejected by the Sun go on the join the Mail.

Although, for proper balance you also like to this…
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/allnews/tm_objectid=14665377%26method=full%26siteid=50143%26headline=the%2dorange%2dtories-name_page.html