05-06-2003 02:08									#1
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Britain's newspapers:

quote: Daily Telegraph - broadsheet Financial Times - daily business broadsheet The Guardian - daily broadsheet The Independent - daily broadsheet The Times - daily broadsheet The Sun - daily tabloid The Mirror - daily tabloid The Scotsman - daily broadsheet The Daily Mail - tabloid The Daily Express - daily tabloid

Notice how the two most right-wing of the ten are not called daily newspapers? I wonder what the thinking is behind that, because they are just as daily as the rest of them.

Liberal bias.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/eu...les/1038758.stm

	05-06-2003 02:14									#2
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I think a more accurate description for The Daily Mail would have been 'sensationalist bullsh*t taking advantage of gullible and characterless people like Stewart Spink'

	05-06-2003 02:16									#3
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Have you actually read it recently? There's only about two or three articles each day that are nonsense, but that's no more than most papers.

	05-06-2003 02:27									#4
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Two or three articles are nonsense, the rest are worse...a pile of badly-researched, over-opinionated bullcrap.
I wouldn't wipe my a$$ with the Daily Mail in case I caught something.

	05-06-2003 02:41									#5
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quote: Liberal bias

More like sloppy editing I think.

	05-06-2003 16:25									#6
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Sloppy yeah.

But it does also seem like they are trying to denigrate the Telegraph and Mail. Which knowing the BBC is probably an aim of theirs.

	05-06-2003 16:31									#7
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It's probably because they are listed as the "Daily Telegraph" and "Daily Mail", so it's pointless to indicate that they are daily papers.

The fact that the Daily Express is pointed out to be daily is probably the result of sloppy editing.

	05-06-2003 16:32									#8
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Considering that the name of the two papers in question actually have "Daily" in them it's entirely redundant to list it in the description. The error came in adding 'daily' to the description of the Daily Express.

	05-06-2003 16:32									#9
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cross-post

Yeah, EXACTLY what Paul said.

	05-06-2003 16:56									#10
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My parents get the Daily Mail. Whenever I visit, I have a habit of picking it up to read through it, and I am always thoroughly disgusted. It is a truely bigotted pile of crap.

I always then berate my parents for reading it, which they don't appreciate, since they are knee-jerk conservatives (unlike Bods, who is just a jerk conservative).

	05-06-2003 16:59									#11
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quote: Originally posted by FrustratedPoet cross-post Yeah, EXACTLY what Paul said.

I was going to say that as well.

I guess if Bodds wants to invent liberal bias he can do it.
@ Bodds.

	05-06-2003 17:00									#12
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At least the Daily Mail started the whole referendum for a referendum thing: giving people a say rather than ignoring what the majority want.

	05-06-2003 17:04									#13
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Trying to change the subject isn't going to stop the

	05-06-2003 17:05									#14
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You really reckon the BBC is unbiased?

Explain to me why they criticise the BNP, a party doing all it can for British people, a lot more than they criticise Galloway, a man doing all he can to give state secrets and support to Saddam Hussein?

	05-06-2003 17:10									#15
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The BBC isn't biased, you are just looking at everything from an extremist perspective.

	05-06-2003 17:11									#16
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It isn't biased to you because you are looking from a far-left perspective.

	05-06-2003 17:15									#17
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I tend to read a variety of news sources to get the facts. Just because my opinion would be more likely to agree with the Guardian spin doesn't mean I won't see what the Torygraph has to say about it etc. The BBC is relatively good at giving both sides, although some reports/reporters are better than others.


Oh and

	05-06-2003 17:40									#18
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What's the laughing for?

Daily is still missed out. The Express gets the special treatment so so too should the Mail and Telegraph.

	05-06-2003 17:45									#19
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Someone's just made a formatting gaffe.

	05-06-2003 17:47									#20
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That English is correct, thank you.

	05-06-2003 17:52									#21
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What the Sun or are you saying thats not right wing

	05-06-2003 17:55									#22
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It's just populist. Sometimes it's right-wing, sometimes left-wing.

	05-06-2003 17:58									#24
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Well tahts true of every british newspaper

	05-06-2003 18:05									#25
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So this is the best example of a bias that the 'cream of wales' can come up with?

	05-06-2003 18:07									#26
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It shows our public broadcaster isn't neutral. It should be. That is serious.

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Can't you bash the Guardian instead, Bodd's ? AT least there will be something to rant about

I fail to see BBC's bias when I go to their website for news.

	05-06-2003 19:44									#29
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Actually, the BBC is biased to the left, although it isn't radical mostly. One of the biggest beefs that I have with the BBC is that what they report can be too easily manipulated. They get caught up in the propaganda of interest groups, which sometimes makes it look like a second rate news outlet.

	05-06-2003 19:47									#30
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I would say the BBC is left of centre but no stupidly so.

People like Polly Toynbee who used to be socail affairs editor were very left wing but even she was only slightly biased when doing reports for the news.