Jun/10
11:45 3
Number crunching: Murdoch’s “war on waste” edition
“Meanwhile, it also emerged that the luvvie pen-pushers at the Department for Culture, Media and Sport blew an eye-watering £70,440 on first-class travel in the past two years alone”, wailed The Sun in a recent piece on its so-called “war on waste”. Please allow Scrapbook to provide some context!
Amount the Department of Culture, Media and Sport – 500 staff – was lambasted by The Sun for spending on first-class travel in two years:
£70,440
Amount “community charity” My Generation – less than 10 staff – spent on travel in just one year, only to see its Tory chief executive Shaun Bailey commissioned to write three articles for The Sun, who tipped him to be Britain’s “first black PM”:
£58,899
It’s almost as if they’re, um, supporting the Tories or something?!
Nov/09
22:25 2
Pawns in the game: The Sun has form for putting words in people’s mouths (whether they agree to it or not)
The point when your newspaper outflanks Nadine Dorries is arguably a good one to pause for reflection. Opinion appears to be crystallising around the view that The Sun newspaper’s coverage of the prime minister’s so-called “insulting” letter of condolence to the family of a soldier killed in Afghanistan has rather less to do with that conflict and ‘our boys’ than, in the words of The Independent, “a vicious and unfair personal attack”. Next Left has a rundown of coverage on the blogs and the media – even The Sun’s former political editor has reservations.
This whole debacle reminds Scrapbook that The Sun has form for putting words in people’s mouths whether they like it or not. Media lecturer John Tulloch was astonished to see his bloodied face alongside a supposed quotation of support for new anti-terror legislation.
“It’s incredibly ironic that the Sun’s rhetoric is as the voice of the people yet they don’t actually ask the people involved, the victims, what they think” – 7/7 victim John Tulloch
The newspaper has already pointed to the fact that they were approached by the bereaved mother, rather than the other way around. But this doesn’t change the fact that they are using this woman’s grief as cover to pursue a vendetta against Gordon Brown in the most crass and tasteless way possible.
Nice headlines, shame about the truth.
