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Brian Cathcart

@BrianCathcart

2 years

What we are witnessing is the UK's equivalent of the storming of the Capitol. Johnson should no longer be PM and everybody bar a few fanatics knows it, but (with the Met's assistance) an outrageous attempt is being made to keep him in office. 1/4

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7 months

While thousands were dying of Covid, Boris Johnson arranged to transfer £100-£200 million in taxpayers' money to newspaper companies, most of them owned by billionaires. This was 'dressed up' as emergency advertising. Read here.

'The Press Equivalent of the PPE "VIP" Channel': Submission to COVID Inquiry On Newspaper 'Bungs'...

A government ad campaign poured cash into national newspapers during the pandemic. Byline Times is one of a number of signatories to a submission on the scheme to the COVID Inquiry

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Brian Cathcart

@BrianCathcart

4 years

A general warning on this day of #HarryandMeghan fuss: take everything you read that comes from the UK national press with a pinch of salt. They are not impartial or honest observers in this; they are determined to break this royal marriage to a woman of colour... (Thread)

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@BrianCathcart

4 years

The Sun’s front page - giving a platform to an unrepentant abuser - is appalling even by its standards. Those responsible are editor Victoria Newton, her boss Rebekah Brooks and her boss Rupert Murdoch. They are beneath contempt. Please #dontbuythesun And don’t click either.

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@BrianCathcart

2 years

Any suggestion that Cressida Dick is merely following due process is an insult to the public's intelligence. If she does not grasp the implications of what she is doing then she is revealing a stupidity that would automatically get most people sacked. 4/4

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@BrianCathcart

1 year

About #HarryandMeghan . Dislike them if you choose, but please check first whether you've been influenced in any way by UK news media. Because their coverage is mostly shaped by greed and hatred & is frequently delivered without honesty. They mislead & manipulate, professionally.

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Brian Cathcart

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5 years

Trust in written press, Europe, 2018 (Eurobarometer) 1🇳🇱Netherlands 2🇸🇪Sweden 3🇫🇮 Finland 4🇲🇦Albania 5🇹🇩Belgium 6🇭🇺Luxembourg 7🇩🇰Denmark 8🇵🇹Portugal 9🇦🇹Austria 10🇩🇪Germany 11🇪🇪 Estonia 12🇸🇰 Slovakia 13🇫🇷France 14🇮🇹Italy 15🇨🇿Czech Republic - - - - - 31🇬🇧United Kingdom (out of 33)

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@BrianCathcart

2 years

Johnson's position is by normal UK measures untenable. No one could claim he has behaved with the propriety we should expect from a PM and it doesn't take Sue Gray or the Met to prove it. By refusing to quit he is defying all precedent – staging a kind of coup. 3/4

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@BrianCathcart

10 months

Where is Victoria Newton, the editor of @TheSun ? She has lots of questions to answer right now. If she were an executive in any other walk of life and involved in something like this, the Sun and the other papers would now be demanding she account for the Sun's actions. 1/2

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@BrianCathcart

2 years

The constitution, such as it is, is being torn up. Governments and PMs are supposed to be constrained by the law and the police are meant to uphold the law. MPs are not supposed to lie and other MPs are meant to police that. Such checks and balances are being set aside. 2/4

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Brian Cathcart

@BrianCathcart

2 years

The Mail's tactic in the #meghan case was always to pretend, in public, that it was the Duchess who was on trial. She never was. It was the Mail that was required to defend what it had done, and it simply could not. 1/5

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@BrianCathcart

3 years

The Meghan judgment today is the second time the Sussexes have won legal victories over the Mail on Sunday in two weeks. Where does this leave editor-in-chief Paul Dacre, the man tipped to be the guardian of standards in broadcast journalism? #Ofcom

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@BrianCathcart

3 years

If the BBC has a valid reason for refusing to discuss or report this video it should surely tell us. If it doesn’t, then let them act like normal journalists. The longer this goes on the worse the Corporation looks. 9/9 Here's the video.

Peter Stefanovic

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3 years

Despite an almost complete media blackout from spineless UK News Channels this film is now on the very cusp of 36 MILLION VIEWS. If it’s ruffling this many feathers now just imagine when it hits 50 million. Let’s keep going!

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Brian Cathcart

@BrianCathcart

2 years

MailOnline is reporting the story that the Chancellor’s billionaire wife has non-dom tax status, but without mentioning that the Mail’s owner Lod Rothermere has for years been reported to enjoy the same status. @MailOnline @DailyMailUK #RishiSunak

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Brian Cathcart

@BrianCathcart

4 years

So @piersmorgan viciously attacks the Sussexes in @DailyMailUK but (surprise!) fails to mention 2 relevant facts: (a) the Mail group is currently being sued by #Meghan and (b) #Harry is suing the Mirror for phone hacking at a time when the Mirror editor was, yes, @piersmorgan .

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Brian Cathcart

@BrianCathcart

1 year

Of course Clarkson's 'apology' is insincere. He has done this kind of thing before and learned nothing, because he just doesn't care. Nor do his employers, the Sun and the Murdoch organisation. They look down on us all as trash, to be insulted and abused for their entertainment.

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Brian Cathcart

@BrianCathcart

11 months

This conduct by @bbc looks even worse today. ⁦ @PeterStefanovi2 ⁩ was highlighting Johnson lies when they mattered most, and our national broadcaster blacklisted him.

The BBC has Blacklisted Peter Stefanovic and his ‘Johnson Lies’ Video. Why?

It’s accurate, it sheds light on a vital question, and it has been viewed tens of millions of times – but our national broadcaster is pretending it isn’t there. Brian Cathcart wants an explanation

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Brian Cathcart

@BrianCathcart

2 years

A thread on #CarrieGate and journalism. We are often told by Tory ministers and Tory papers that journalism is vital to a healthy democracy. This is often deployed as an pretext by the former to do favours for the latter. It's true none the less . . . 1/10

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Brian Cathcart

@BrianCathcart

5 months

A very important court victory today for #PrinceHarry against the Mirror papers. But at least as important is the finding that three top execs of the time – Sly Bailey, Paul Vickers and Marcus Partington – all knew phone hacking was going on. That's not what they said.

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Brian Cathcart

@BrianCathcart

3 years

I don’t write much about broadcast journalism but I'm fascinated by the questions about news values raised by the BBC’s refusal to report or discuss the @PeterStefanovi2 viral video of Boris Johnson lies. There’s been a small development... 1/9

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Brian Cathcart

@BrianCathcart

3 months

Yet another good day to post this. By his own admission #PiersMorgan has disgraced himself and the trade of journalism. He knew. He has said he knew. He could have stopped it. He chose not to. Then Milly Dowler was hacked...

Piers Morgan and Phone Hacking: What Even He Can't Deny

There is a lot of evidence about the former Mirror editor and hacking, but how much has he already admitted? More than you might think reveals, Brian Cathcart...

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Brian Cathcart

@BrianCathcart

4 years

We are told that the couple refuses to accept legitimate scrutiny, but what they have faced has not been legitimate. It has been a sustained campaign of vilification routinely relying on innuendo and falsehood and often laced with racism...

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Brian Cathcart

@BrianCathcart

4 years

We are also led to believe that rough stuff from the UK press is only to be expected, and it's part of the royal job to accept it. Don't believe it. Real journalism isn't about dishing out rough stuff. It's about truth and fairness. No journalist anywhere should be asserting...

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Brian Cathcart

@BrianCathcart

4 years

The attached graphic about trust in the written press, published last week, has not been widely reported in Britain. This is a huge annual survey by @EurobarometerEU across 33 countries. It's the ninth year out of the past ten that the UK has been last. We have a problem.

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@BrianCathcart

2 years

This is a very big story – the Daily Mail is accused of spying on Doreen Lawrence. It should be in every broadcast news bulletin and on every front page. Will it be?

Expose News

@weexposenews

2 years

WORLD EXCLUSIVE: Baroness Doreen Lawrence - mother of murdered Stephen Lawrence - is suing the DAILY MAIL for invasions of privacy, along with Elizabeth Hurley, Elton John and David Furnish

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@BrianCathcart

1 year

A few lines from #princeharry 's court statement:

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Brian Cathcart

@BrianCathcart

4 years

... that the royal couple have to put up with journalism that is untrue and unfair. No individual, royal or otherwise, should ever have to do that. Journalists should be taking some responsibility for the abuses that have happened...

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Brian Cathcart

@BrianCathcart

4 years

Instead we are encouraged to think that a 'bad press' for this couple (or for anybody else) is like the British weather – something you have to shrug and put up with. It is not. It is man-made, the deliberate policy of individuals working for corrupt newspaper organisations...

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Brian Cathcart

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5 years

You might just be saying to yourself, well I've got bigger things to worry about than Harry and Meghan. You would be wrong. It's about you. These papers will treat you like they treat them. Their mission is to divide and sow hate. If it takes royalty to stop them, so be it... 1/6

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Brian Cathcart

@BrianCathcart

4 years

This tremendously brave woman finally received her settlement money from the Mail on Sunday today, nearly three years after it libelled her. Please, don't buy the Mail and don't click on it either, because that's giving money to a brutal lie machine.

The Beautician and the Beast: Danielle Hindley v the Mail on Sunday

Brian Cathcart on how the Sunday tabloid admitted that it published a false defamatory story about a member of the public, but still dragged her through court.

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Brian Cathcart

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4 years

There is a special iniquity about the way journalists with no dog in this fight (in broadcast, for example) simply parrot the lines of the corporate press. The fundamental problem to be tackled here, in reality, is not the prince or his wife. It is a hateful, dishonest press.

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Brian Cathcart

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1 year

This is a disaster for the public image of the BBC, at home and internationally. The Corporation is exposed as a craven instrument of the Conservative party and its far-right press allies. #IStandWithGary #BBCShame

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@BrianCathcart

4 years

Now we are watching a concerted effort by those organisations to kill off any remaining public sympathy for this vilified royal couple. In their torrent of words they are creating a new normal in which the prince becomes the Duke of Windsor, led astray by a grasping wife...

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@BrianCathcart

4 years

We are also constantly reminded that they are privileged and they owe us something. And it's true. But it's the taxpayers who confer the privilege, not the Mail, Sun, Times & Telegraph. They owe nothing to those papers and they can communicate to the public without their help...

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Brian Cathcart

@BrianCathcart

3 years

The Duchess of Sussex has won her legal action against the Mail on Sunday newspaper. The court found that the paper unjustifiably and unlawfully breached her privacy. #Meghan #HarryandMeghan

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Brian Cathcart

@BrianCathcart

3 years

Alexa, find me a news story about British royalty that's been reported all round the world, but that somehow failed to make it into the Sun, the Times, the Mail, the Telegraph and the Mirror.

Tabloid Hired Gun Tells of Shady Hunt for Meghan Markle Scoops (Published 2021)

The private investigator says the British tabloid The Sun paid him $2,055 in 2016 for private information about the couple, their family and friends that had been taken from a restricted database.

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Brian Cathcart

@BrianCathcart

10 months

On the subject of #DanWootton , here's a piece I wrote about an example of his work at @TheSun . A cruel jibe at a pregnant woman. No named source. They were told it was false but spread it over the front page anyway. 24 hours on: correction page 2.

Meghan and the Car Park: Anatomy of a Royal News “Story” – Brian Cathcart

On 12 April this year the front page headline of the Sun was ‘NOT IN MEG BACK YARD’. The report began: ‘Prince Harry and Meghan have infuriated Royal Household staff at Windsor by banning them from…

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Brian Cathcart

@BrianCathcart

2 years

The @metpolice reaction to partygate is compellingly reminiscent of its response to the phone hacking allegations of @Bynickdavies in 2009/10. In both cases it almost instantly declared that there was nothing to investigate. Back then, Met police heads rolled. @RhonddaBryant

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4 years

Or alternatively he is in la-la-land, with no grasp of the financial realities of his own position or of the world. If these views were placed in context they might constitute legitimate opinion, but (surprise!) the context of sustained, dishonest press abuse is always omitted...

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Brian Cathcart

@BrianCathcart

3 years

There is nothing new in what the press is doing to #MeghanAndHarry , though the scale and venom are amazing. They did the same to Caroline Flack – also in the full knowledge that she had mental health problems. There are countless victims. They – and we – deserve better. 1/5

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Brian Cathcart

@BrianCathcart

4 years

Here is just one small example of their dishonesty at work:

Article 50 Negotiations Authorised by EU - Byline

European Commission receives mandate to begin negotiations with the UK

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Brian Cathcart

@BrianCathcart

2 years

Prepare now to see the Mail go into martyr mode. Call this justice! The judges ganged up on us! The law is an ass! The courts have gone 'woke'! All tosh. The law is simple: a private letter is a private letter, and private means you don't splash it across your front page. 4/5

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2 years

It used to be a key test in British journalism: do you know your law? Mistakes in law, we were told, were usually sackable offences because so much was at stake. Here we have an editor, Ted Verity, who has screwed up on the law spectacularly – and he has been promoted. 5/5

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Brian Cathcart

@BrianCathcart

9 months

I agree. What I don't understand is why the decent journalists at the BBC, and there are plenty, are allowing this to go unchallenged. Not only is it unethical and plain wrong, but it destroys public trust in what they do.

Peter Jukes

@peterjukes

9 months

If the Wooton scandal teaches us one thing, it should be this. Once you’ve got the Mail and Murdoch onside (or compromised) the BBC will be silent and you have most the media stitched up. Very very unhealthy for our democracy

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Brian Cathcart

@BrianCathcart

4 years

Read this legal document from #Meghan 's case against the @DailyMailUK group. It describes nine stories among many in a campaign of vilification against her. Just one selection from just one newspaper group. A monstering.

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Brian Cathcart

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4 years

So far as I can tell not one national news outlet reported yesterday's libel victory by @daniellehindley over the Mail on Sunday. Not one. They pretend there's no code of omertá in the press but the truth is they routinely cover up each other's wrongdoings, Mafia-style... 1/3

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2 years

Haha. Totally predictable whingeing from the Mail re #Meghan . These were three of the most senior judges in the land. And no, the press should not be free to breach people’s privacy and steal their copyright.

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2 years

... they should give you all the important stuff so you can make your mind up as an informed citizen. Not reporting #CarrieGate (like not reporting the economic consequences of Brexit) is not just bad journalism. It is an offence against journalism and against society. 3/10

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2 years

She has won resoundingly at every stage. A High Court judge who the Mail almost certainly believed would be sympathy to its case gave victory to the Duchess in February without even holding a trial... 2/5

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2 years

To repeat: if you claim to be providing a service that is essential to a healthy democracy you can't avoid investigating an allegation of this kind. Equally the Times's spiking of the story is of vital public interest. Was it requested by Number 10 or ordered by Murdoch? 6/10

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5 years

To think that for the past three years the national press has been telling us to hate a completely different member of the royal family – on the grounds that she likes yoga and avocado. #PrinceAndrew

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2 years

No one has put this better than Murdoch himself, many years ago. "A newspaper can create great controversies," he said. "It can throw light on injustices, just as it can do the opposite – it can hide things and be a great power for evil." 10/10

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2 years

... and now three very senior judges at the Court of Appeal have thrown out the Mail's case again. To add insult to injury they said that yes, the Mail could have its 'new evidence', but then they explained that the new evidence changed nothing. 3/5

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@BrianCathcart

3 years

A reminder that most of the papers now attacking the BBC have done far worse things, have never investigated themselves or allowed others to investigate them, and – with the collusion of this government – continue to cover it up. #Leveson2 @justice4daniel

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@BrianCathcart

4 years

If you ever wondered about @piersmorgan and phone hacking this might be a place to start. Other evidence aside, what has he actually admitted to on the record, and what does that tell us? It's not pretty. @hackinginquiry @carolecadwalla @pguk10 @GMB

Piers Morgan and Phone Hacking: What Even He Can't Deny

There is a lot of evidence about the former Mirror editor and hacking, but how much has he already admitted? More than you might think reveals, Brian Cathcart...

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Brian Cathcart

@BrianCathcart

3 years

This cartoon, published by Paul #Dacre in the Daily Mail in 2015, tells you most of what you need to know about the man apparently set to chair Ofcom.

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@BrianCathcart

2 years

Among the responses we are likely to hear to today's news that the Mail is being sued for hacking and blagging are 1. this is ancient history and 2. that it's just bleating celebs. Let's consider these now. 1/8

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@BrianCathcart

10 months

The Sun is in reality a disgrace to journalism, a relentless publisher of falsehoods and a perfect reflection of the utterly immoral personality of its owner, Rupert Murdoch. Not for nothing is it the least trusted news outlet in the UK.

Press Gazette

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Victoria Newton said: “The Sun is a responsible media organisation which has strict editorial and legal frameworks in place so as to ensure that articles are accurate & lawful," and explained what some of these involved in relation to the Huw Edwards story

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4 years

It would be unwise to accept anything the Mail & allies say about today's #MeghanMarkle case rulings. A small part of the claim has been struck out, but the case against the newspaper on privacy and copyright remains strong, and that will not be tried for months.

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Brian Cathcart

@BrianCathcart

6 years

In cancelling #Leveson2 the government is helping national newspapers cover up their crimes. It's a simple as that. Bribery, hacking, data theft, intrusion, blackmail, harassment. In exchange, editors will go softer in the Tories. This is Britain at its most corrupt. #Leveson2Now

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3 years

What proportion of what you read about this couple is either lies or illegal? British journalism in disgrace. Duchess of Sussex: Private investigator unlawfully accessed private information

Duchess of Sussex: Private investigator unlawfully accessed private information

An LA-based investigator tells BBC News he unlawfully obtained her social security number.

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@BrianCathcart

1 year

Update: 4 months after @thesun published Clarkson's vile, misogynistic attack on #Meghan , the useless press 'watchdog' @ipsonews , which received 25,100 complaints, is *still* dithering about what to do. As I wrote here, expect nothing.

‘The Sun, Clarkson, Meghan and IPSO – Prepare for Another Shaming Episode of Non-Regulation’

The public is being strung along – again. No matter how outraged you were by the vicious words used against the Duchess of Sussex, nothing will change and the press will do it again, writes Brian...

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@BrianCathcart

2 years

It is a cover-up of the kind journalists are supposed to detest and it is a betrayal of the public. Every single serious journalism organisation should today be working its socks off to reveal (a) whether the story in @thetimes was accurate and (b) why it was pulled. 4/10

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Brian Cathcart

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7 months

If you care about this corrupt 'press bung' scandal please let the Hallett Inquiry know. The chair appears reluctant to confront media issues even though more than £100m of our money was blown. The email address is contact @covid19 .public-inquiry.uk

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@BrianCathcart

3 years

Is any news organisation doorstepping Rebekah Brooks for her response to the damning findings of the Morgan Report? It says her company took part in a plot to sabotage a murder inquiry. She was told in 2003. Did she really do nothing? #DanielMorgan

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6 years

Breaking: (thread) the official summary of the final judgement in the so-called 'Muslim fostering' case has just been released and it is devastating to the reputations of the Times newspaper and its reporter Andrew Norfolk. @pguk10 #MuslimFoster

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2 years

'This is what we do,' a Murdoch journalist once said. 'We go out and destroy other people's lives.' Please read this shocking example of the Mail, Sun, Times Telegraph doing just that. @chakrabortty

Hate mail and death threats: how the right wrecked one man’s life for its culture war | Aditya...

Matthew Katzman was forced out of the UK after he was accused of ‘cancelling the Queen’. For pundits and politicians, it was all just lucrative fun, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty

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3 years

If Paul Dacre is made chair of Ofcom he will be responsible for standards in UK broadcasting. So how is he doing in his current job as Editor-in-Chief of Associated Newspapers? Well, Associated is currently losing legal actions over bad journalism at an extraordinary rate. 1/8

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1 year

The Sun says it is sorry, but that is not enough. It does not say how it came to publish such filth and what it has done to ensure it won’t happen again. Sacking Clarkson and Victoria Newton, the editor who approved publication, would be a start.

Hacked Off

@hackinginquiry

1 year

Finally an apology from @TheSun , a week later and after millions read Clarkson's words, and yet still no action from @IpsoNews . Will there be an investigation? Sanction? Fine? Or will you let them get away with it @IpsoNews , like after every other case of press misogyny?

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@BrianCathcart

2 years

Just so we're clear what is happening here. The Daily Mail is accusing Baroness Doreen Lawrence of 'preposterous smears', and of engaging in an 'orchestrated attempt to drag the Mail titles into the phone hacking scandal'.

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2 years

Associated Newspapers has now said: "We utterly and unambiguously refute these preposterous smears which appear to be nothing more than a pre-planned and orchestrated attempt to drag the Mail titles into the phone hacking scandal concerning articles up to 30 years old."

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1 year

The disastrous state of public trust in the UK press. Here is the latest World Values Study from King's College London. 3,056 UK people were asked how much confidence they have in the press. How did their responses compare with other countries? 1/5

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@BrianCathcart

11 months

After the #Clarkson /Sun ruling they will big up IPSO, aka @ipsonews , as a real, muscular press regulator. Rubbish. Here are 10 facts you need to know. 1. Supposedly empowered to slap £1 million fines on erring papers, in nine years IPSO has never handed down even a £10 fine. 🧵

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Brian Cathcart

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10 months

I see some people are being vile to @MichaelRosenYes . For what it's worth I think he's one of the best things about Twitter & one of the best things about the UK. He is clever and witty, yes, but also supremely humane. We are so lucky that he is out there inspiring our children.

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Brian Cathcart

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2 years

Some further observations on the government's corrupt Covid 'bung' to its press cronies, as discussed in yesterday's remarkable tweet by Dominic Cummings @Dominic2306 🧵 ('him' = Boris Johnson) @BylineTimes 1/10

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10 months

Tim Davie has answered for @BBC , which is clearly giving its reporters free rein to scrutinise the BBC. What about Victoria Newton? What about @TheSun ? It's a feature of UK press conduct so routine we hardly question it: When the going gets tough, the editors hide. 2/2

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2 years

The published allegation was extremely serious, and on the face of it rather better researched than the original account in the Ashcroft book. From the Sun to the Telegraph and from the BBC to the Express, there can be no excuse for ignoring it. 5/10

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3 years

This is chilling stuff. The BBC is our most trusted source of news. But it is squandering that trust through its failure to hold the government to account.

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4 years

If you have followed the case of #carolineflack , or of #meghan , you may be interested in @daniellehindley , a working single mother whose life was trashed without justification by the Mail on Sunday. She's in court tomorrow to hear them apologise.

The Mail on Sunday and Danielle Hindley: proof that nothing has changed. - Hacked Off

Written by Brian Cathcart At the Royal Courts of Justice in London tomorrow the owners of the Mail on Sunday will formally admit that the paper published an article featuring unfounded allegations...

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2 years

This is a weirdly perverse take on a settlement in which, for all we know, she may have received an absolute fortune from the Mail. She took £1 for privacy but undisclosed compensation in copyright.

Meghan to receive just £1 from Mail on Sunday for privacy invasion

Newspaper accepts defeat and will pay additional unspecified sum for infringing her copyright

www.theguardian.com

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10 months

Vivid proof of the corrupt power of the corporate press and the feeble complicity of most of our mainstream news media: they elevated the Sun's reckless, speculative non-journalism into a crisis but they are ignoring this real story packed with detail.

GB News Star Dan Wootton Unmasked in Cash-for-Sexual Images Catfishing Scandal

In the first part of its three-year special investigation, Byline Times reveals the accounts of victims targeted by the powerful TV presenter

bylinetimes.com

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@BrianCathcart

2 years

We need much higher expectations, both among the public and among journalists. It is absolutely NOT normal or acceptable in journalism for editors and reporters to turn their backs on important public interest stories. 8/10

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Brian Cathcart

@BrianCathcart

2 years

If it was either it was scandalous. Tragically, we in Britain are accustomed to very low standards of journalistic ethics. Few people expect journalists to fulfil their democratic role. Cynicism is normalised. 7/10

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Brian Cathcart

@BrianCathcart

3 years

Priti Patel has thrust herself into the formally *independent* business of the *independent* panel on the #DanielMorgan murder, demanding more time to read the report before MPs or the public see it and threatening to black out passages of text. 1/6

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@BrianCathcart

2 years

. . . and one of the reasons our democracy is in such a mess is that we don't have nearly enough decent journalism. As #CarrieGate shows. Journalists serve democracy by informing citizens of the state of the world. They can't tell you everything, but . . . 2/10

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@BrianCathcart

3 years

Race and the UK press... In six years the press 'self-regulator' IPSO has received well over 15,000 complaints relating to discrimination. It has upheld only one (yes, 1). IPSO was designed to fail minorities. When you hear promises of change, think about that.

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@BrianCathcart

1 month

@hackinginquiry @TheSun Further to @HackedOffHugh 's reluctant out-of-court settlement with @TheSun , here is actress Caroline Quentin, speaking this month, on the absence of justice in these arrangements:

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@BrianCathcart

3 years

I've known Naomi for 35 years. She is a principled, thoughtful person and what has been happening to her and to others like her is a disgrace. Please watch this video.

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@BrianCathcart

3 years

The departure of Piers Morgan from ITV, welcome and overdue though it is, is no remedy for the racism and thuggery of the UK corporate press, for which the papers and the Society of Editors are not sorry.

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Brian Cathcart

@BrianCathcart

2 years

Readers and viewers should be demanding coverage, not accepting corrupt silence. Journalists in newsrooms should be demanding that the big stories are reported and not ignored. They should be ashamed when they fail democracy. 9/10

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Brian Cathcart

@BrianCathcart

7 years

Please RT if you think the Murdochs already have too much power in Britain and should not be allowed more.

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@BrianCathcart

3 years

Might be a good time to remind you of this.

Piers Morgan and Phone Hacking: What Even He Can't Deny

There is a lot of evidence about the former Mirror editor and hacking, but how much has he already admitted? More than you might think reveals, Brian Cathcart...

bylinetimes.com

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@BrianCathcart

4 years

If you are wondering why the Sussexes see no point in communicating with UK tabloids, have a look at this. Just one small example of what happens when you get in dialogue with the Sun 1/2:

Article 50 Negotiations Authorised by EU - Byline

European Commission receives mandate to begin negotiations with the UK

byline.com

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@BrianCathcart

2 years

When journalists assist lawbreakers. How the Times, Guardian, BBC, Sky and others helped the Mail promote disinformation about its court defeat. #Meghan @mediaguardian @thetimes @BBCMedia @SkyNews

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@BrianCathcart

3 years

'The Mail on Sunday hates Harry and Meghan and it saw the campaign against us as a way of getting at them.' Read @AlanaStott 's description of the brutal impact of tabloid viciousness. #dontbuythemail

"They didn't care that our wellbeing was at stake... the paper just attacked" - How the Mail on...

Was it Dean Stott's friendship with Prince Harry which led him to become a target of press abuse? His wife Alana Stott writes for Hacked Off about how the publication of damaging reports in the Mail...

hackinginquiry.org

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@BrianCathcart

3 years

A calm and humane assessment.

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@BrianCathcart

2 years

The UK ranks 32nd out of 37 countries in Europe when it comes to people's trust in their written press, according to the latest annual @EBU_HQ survey. Here's the graphic. @zelo_street @mediaguardian @brokenbottleboy @ft @hackinginquiry 1/10

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Brian Cathcart

@BrianCathcart

5 months

In paragraphs 330 and 331 of the full judgment there is what amounts to a finding by the judge that Piers Morgan, as editor of the Mirror, published an article knowing its source was phone hacking. (That's not what he said either.) #PrinceHarry

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Brian Cathcart

@BrianCathcart

7 months

Days into lockdown, our mostly billionaire-owned national press was begging Boris Johnson for a special subsidy. This week at #CovidInquiry Dominic Cummings shed a little more light on what happened next: 🧵

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Brian Cathcart

@BrianCathcart

2 years

So Stephen Pollard has stepped down as editor of the Jewish Chronicle. He presided over such a disastrous collapse of journalistic standards there that even the sham regulator IPSO had to consider action. Their decision is due in just four days' time. Can that be a coincidence?

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@BrianCathcart

2 years

This might be a moment to recall that, besides breaching #Meghan 's rights, this year the Mail papers have also been caught lying about #Harry . As in, '...all of these allegations are false, as the Mail on Sunday and the MailOnline have now accepted...'

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