Broadcasters who repeated this obvious bollocks are not required to make any correction or apologise to their listeners/viewers. And I saw at least two columnists making hay with it. They too will retract nothing.
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Zoe Gardner
The @Telegraph, @thetimes, @MailOnline & @TheSun publish corrections to their scaremongering on undocumented migrants in London.
Imagine between them the reach & power of these papers.
The fact is they are using that power to instil Trumpist hate & we are ill-equipped to resist.
Imagine between them the reach & power of these papers.
The fact is they are using that power to instil Trumpist hate & we are ill-equipped to resist.
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But it's all the immigrants' fault - ugh.
Even when these publisher are caught out by IPSO they don't have to pay any fine or suffer any meaningful penalty. Their obnoxious claims have spread for free and there's no remedy.
We need to share these retractions as widely as possible and our derision will challenge any notion they are a 'correction'.
That wasn’t very hard
There is no accountability for misleading at best and downright lies at worst because there is no fact checking
Might as well be reading the back of a cubicle door in a particularly shitty toilet in a particularly shitty Wetherspoon's.
For broadcast it should have to be retracted in the same format, on the same programme, at roughly the same time of day.
In return for allowing a 'free' media, even media openly biased to the right, we need to insist on duties to report truthfully - with proper regulatory scrutiny / consequences.
It'd take about 20 minutes I reckon. Maybe 30 with a brew.
Same headline size.
Same position in the newspaper or on their website.
Only then will their readers realise that they are being taken for fools.
If only there was a body of people with the power to make that happen....🤔
Think Of A Number , Double
it , Add A Thousand . Bingo .
We are losing America b/c the media fucked US over.
It's so fucking surreal here. FIGHT the fascism!!
How do we save England? I know Scotland is well on way to saving itself, Ireland & Wales too, but England is in a bog of misinformation & nowhere near started climbing out
Good morning
the lie is already halfway around the world