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I know it is trivial but if the claim that Prince William spent £180 on a haircut which he apparently denies was made up by a reporter and repeated by the rest of the mainstream media then it reinforces the need for the press to provide evidence for their stories or the public will lose faith in anything they say or write. This is nothing to do with being a Royalist or not but everything to do with press reporting which seems more fiction than fact these days.
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I have a very simple solution. If a paper prints a misleading story - one based on something they know to be false, or rush in to print without checking to a reasonable standard - then the correction or apology should be of the same size and prominence as the original piece. Watch how the standard of reporting would improve immeasurably in an instant.
Press has always been partisan and will interpret things to suit their agenda but the regulator's job is to ensure the line is firmly held and they're simply not doing their job. In today's age of people getting their news and having their views shaped by unregulated websites, feeds and sad sacks in their mum's spare bedroom the role of the press is more important than ever. |
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The 'problem' solves itself.
If people lose faith in what the Press write, they'll stop buying the paper, it'll go bust and won't publish any more fake news |
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Yes, that'll work. WAC.
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The media is in place to make money and push a narrative.
They make money through adverts and to get that revenue they have to push a narrative and create sensational headlines. I dont trust any of them. Some subjects they just refuse to report for fear of the left boycotting those who advertise with them. |
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http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/pizza-hut-the-sun_uk_5a247aace4b03350e0b78ad1
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The reality is that my internet activity allows for an astonishingly accurate profile of the news I want to read, and serves it up to me.
And you too. |
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Oh no, UB's escaped
 Crippen, I thought you'd confined him to Brexit threads, where he can have his breakdown in peace? Get him back in his box |
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Do you read any patriot/non-pro-EU/non-leftist stuff on your feed UB?
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Patriot?
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Nobody seems to think that a reporter/editor should be fined or sacked for knowingly printing/broadcasting false news? I don't agree with Trump about many things but he has identified a problem. What really annoys me is that even if the origin of a story is on social media or from a minor publication, the BBC, Sky etc. are happy to repeat it with minimum research as to its authenticity. If they haven't seen an invoice or a payment advice for Prince William's haircut, they don't have a story.
On a bigger scale, any press release by Shelter, RSPB, RSPCA, CBI or any other acronym is treated as fact by the major media. Most of it is probably based on fact but heavily biased by the pressure group involved. |
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To be fair to the beeb, they are usually the most stringent with their fact checking.
You can go back to any number of threads on these here boards. There's some kind of accident or alert in London, the usual social media crew trying to further their agenda immediately report it as AN ATTACK, and within minutes we have the cretins on here moaning that the Beeb haven't also declared it AN ATTACK. Actually, they're just checking and double checking before speculating what it might be. Then, when the inevitable happens and it turns out to be a car accident or some lads scrapping, those same online agenda pushers deflect attention from themselves by declaring how spooked people are and surely the fact that so many people believed it to be an attack is a sign of where we are etc etc. We need a decent press regulator to ensure these kinds of standards are upheld across the board and controls in place to limit the damage done by blerts on the online Wild West. |
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^^PP's imagination running wild.
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British Broadcasting Caliphate - is that the one he is bleating on about. censorship by exclusion bit like the guardian
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