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Originally Posted by Chrysalis
so wanting a decent press means I am left wing.
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No, demanding Press regulation on the pretext that people are gullible and somehow need protecting is left wing, or at least, that sort of patrician authoritarianism has been a characteristic of the British Left for quite some time now.
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I think you are happy with lies as they suit your political swing. I didnt mention anything politically I just mentioned inaccurate stories which of course seem to be much more common in both the mail and sun than other papers, but they not the only 2 papers at it.
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And I think you see lies where the stories
don't suit your political swing. Oddly enough, neither the Mail nor the Sun are known for being sympathetic towards the Left.
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Are you a journalist, as maggy has said?
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Trained, qualified and time-served. Not working on a newspaper these days though.
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newpaper articles are not meant for voicing opinions they are for reporting factual stories.
blogs are more suited to opinions yet I find blogs posting more facts than newspaper articles, its backwards.
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Yes, I was forgetting the famous Newspapers Enablement Act 1972. It forbids newspapers from being partisan or running opinion pieces doesn't it. Oh, hang on, there's no such thing.
Chrys, do try not to confuse what you think someone should be allowed to do, with what they actually are allowed to do. Newspapers are, and always have been, free to voice an opinion and as they, not the government or some 'independent' regulator, have editorial control of their content, they are free to choose what to report and how to report it.
Bloggers, likewise, are free to simply report news or to be a soapbox, or both.