My daughter, Emma, expressed to me her views about the media coverage of Jon Venables return to prison after a breech of his licence. She's not impressed. The coverage appears to be led by the Daily Mirror, a paper that likes to rabble rouse. What concerns me is that other organs of the press, instead of doing their own investigative journalism, are content to quote the Daily Mirror:
"According to the Daily Mirror the 27 year old has ...."
How lazy is that?
I actually bought a local newspaper last week - a bottle of Lucozade was on offer at 50% of the normal retail price when a newspaper was purchased with it - and read some of the articles. The standard of the journalism was particularly poor, the use of English was none too good, and the proof reading was bad. One article didn't even make sense.
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