Feature Article #1
Mendacity is Contagious
British Sky Broadcasting, as most of us are all too aware, is part of the Murdochs’ News Corp. A nasty ailment they’ve picked up from their bedfellows in Wapping has just got them into trouble again.
For they have acquired from them the compulsive habit of making up stories and saying what they like about anyone, [...]
Feature Article #2
A NEW SET OF TEETH FOR THE PRESS COMPLAINTS COMISSION?
In April 2009, the Press Complaints Commission will have a new boss, Baroness Buscombe. Peta Buscombe is a former lawyer of broad experience, most recently as Chief Executive of the Advertising Association, where she earned the respect of a number of admirers.
In many ways she looks more suitable for the job at the PCC than [...]
Feature Article #3
GINGER WHINGER
For an editor of a national newspaper – if you choose to call the Sun a newspaper when there’s a strong case for reclassifying it as a comic – Rebekah Wade has a pretty flaky idea of how the law works. She told the Guardian today:
The point of concern is there is just one [...]
Feature Article #4
Hypocrisy in the High Street
Hypocrisy from any quarter deserves to be exposed, and especially when it comes from the largest retailer in Britain who will do anything to increase the footfall through their stores.
Tesco have consistently vowed that they will support government in not encouraging young people to drink by offering very discounted booze.
Not so.
The most recent [...]
Feature Article #5
The Spluttering Man from the Soaraway Sun
It was fun on the BBC’s Today programme this morning to hear a stuttering, burbling, ill-informed Graham Dudman – managing editor of the Sun, attempting feebly to defend the right of the popular press to plaster private details of individuals’ lives all over the pages of their unpleasant little organ.
Like every Shag-Rag editor, Dudman [...]

