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Originally Posted by Julian
Why does our public service broadcaster find the need to parrot the drivel printed in that comic.
That publication has had to repeatedly print apologies and pay compensation as a result of the lies they print.  |
I think you may be confusing the Grauniad with the News Group Newspapers (Sun/News of the World/etc.) and the Trinity Mirror Group (The Mirror).
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Heather Mills and 90 other people have been awarded a 'substantial' settlement following a phone-hacking claim against the News of the World.
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Elton John and David Furnish accept ‘significant’ libel damages over dog attack claim
The couple launched legal proceedings over a front page story in The Sun on Sunday earlier this year.
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The publisher of the Daily and Sunday Mirror has been ordered to pay £1.2m in compensation to eight phone-hacking victims, including the actor Sadie Frost and the former footballer Paul Gascoigne.
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The owner of the Daily Mirror has set aside an extra £7.5m to settle claims relating to historical phone-hacking claims.
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Originally Posted by Chris
Because the BBC advertises its job vacancies extensively in the Grauniad, so reading the Grauniad becomes is a necessity if you ever want to work for the BBC. As only true handwringing lefties can stand to buy it for any length of time, only true handwringing lefties see the ads and get employed by the BBC ...
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Not sure there are enough ad hominems and circular arguments in that statement...
Strangely enough, Sky, the Sun newpaper, the Times, and most other media organisations advertise their media jobs in the Guardian as well*, but no one accuses them of being "handwringing lefties"...
*because the Guardian is the only national newspaper with a Media Jobs section