Is the Scottish Express even worse than the Mail?

[Nini]

I find it highly amusing that the issue number is 666 though OK! isn't known for journalism, more paid publicity.

[cdd]

In other news of shockingly bad "journalism", OK Magazine has published an "official tribute issue 1981-2009" for Jade Goody when she is not dead. Strapline: "In Loving Memory".

Ugh. It makes me feel rather silly and petty whining about trivial annoyances on BBC News web site when journalism hits THAT end of the spectrum.

I should probably widen my news intake. Print it on the papers "To be consumed as part of a balanced diet".

[marksi]

http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/904 ... e-re-sorry

Half-hearted apology which does not explain in any way how the article came to be published. It's on page 5.

THE Scottish Sunday Express has enjoyed a long love affair with the people of our nation.
It is 81 years since the first edition of this great newspaper rolled off the presses in Glasgow.

Over that time, we have established a reputation for crusading journalism built on the twin cornerstones of honesty and integrity.

Scottish Sunday Express readers expect us to shine a light on the wrongs in our society, to expose the crooks, highlight the hypocrites and to give everyone the odd chuckle with the extraordinary stories that ordinary Scots so often have to tell.

We think we are pretty good at all that, and everyone involved in producing this newspaper takes pride in what we publish.

It is also hugely important to us that the Scottish Sunday Express reflects the feelings of the people of Scotland.

On March 8 we got that all wrong.

Our front-page story about the teenage survivors of the Dunblane massacre and their use of social networking websites has caused terrible offence, not only in that town, but across Scotland and around the world.

It is our belief that nobody was misquoted, but the story was undeniably inappropriate. It has upset the young people we named and caused great distress to their parents.

Where possible, we have spoken to the families involved and given them a heartfelt apology. Today we apologise to you, our loyal readers.

[cdd]

And, a cynic might say, premeditated?

[marksi]

I'm going to hazard a guess that where is was not possible to speak to the families, it was because they quite rightly told the Express to fuck right off.

[James H]

Fucking hell, it sounds like a dictate from the President. They're hardly that important.

Just say you bollocksed it up and then finish with it.

[marksi]

http://whythatsdelightful.wordpress.com ... the-floor/

This is incredible. While we await the response of the PCC to our petition protesting the Express/Dunblane scandal that the press won’t cover (STILL not as important to the broadsheets as Sachsgate, apparently), here’s a piece of mindblowing cynicism from the Daily Mail to take up the slack.

Apparently, the Daily Mail in Ireland and the Daily Mail in the UK are currently running seperate campaigns about the HPV Vaccine. Nothing unusual about that, you might think. It’s an important subject and the Daily Mail has a duty to be concerned. But, y’see, ha, ha, here’s the thing.

The two editions of the paper are running campaigns both for and against the vaccine. That’s right, in Ireland, the newspaper is very firmly for it, but in the UK, on the other hand…. you get stories such as this. (below)

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/artic ... r-jab.html

[marksi]

The Press Complaints Commission has now issued it's judgement on the Dunblane kids "story" in the Scottish Sunday Express.

Although the editor had taken steps to resolve the complaint, and rightly published an apology, the breach of the Code was so serious that no apology could remedy it.

Full ruling: http://www.pcc.org.uk/news/index.html?a ... bcb23a6d0c

[TG]

Good. Vile piece of shit that they printed deserves little else.

[Gavin Scott]

In other news of shockingly bad "journalism", OK Magazine has published an "official tribute issue 1981-2009" for Jade Goody when she is not dead. Strapline: "In Loving Memory".

I can't remember which dishwater rag is currently showing it on its front page, but you can't get more sensitive journalism than the following paraphrase:

Michael Jackson - in loving tribute. Our thoughts and prayers are with Michael. Here's a full-front-page paparazzo photo of his comatose body seconds before he died.

I can't remember which dishwater rag it's from - on the shelves now!

Its OK magazine. Sick or not, its flying off the shelves. I've seen umpteen people in Scotmid dropping it in their basket.

I'm actually surprised we've not seen more in the way of corpse shots.

[Alexia]

OK magazine and the Express. Same company. Why am I not surprised.