IS THE FAR RIGHT SETTING THE DAILY MAIL’S AGENDA?

In the last week, the Daily Mail has run several stories emanating from the far Right without revealing this fact to its readers.

On St. George’s Day, the MailOnline ran a story claiming that customers had complained about the replacement of St. George’s Cross flags with Union Jacks at a Wetherspoon’s pub in Herne Bay, Kent. Staff had reportedly told the aggrieved customer, self-professed ‘patriot’ Samantha Gurney, that it was pub policy not to fly the St. George’s Cross for fear that it ‘might offend people’. It was ‘political correctness gone mad’, she said. ‘It annoys me’, Gurney continued, ‘because when it was St Patrick’s Day, they made a big deal out of it flying Irish flags, hats and shamrocks but yet we can’t celebrate our national day.’

Gurney had first contacted her local news outlet, KentOnline, which ran a feature on the offending Saxon Shore pub. The story was then picked up by the national MailOnline. But both local and national news websites failed to report that Gurney was not the flag-waving everywoman she claimed to be. It was revealed by Hope not Hate’s insider’s blog that Gurney was a supporter of the far-right EDL, and had contributed to the group’s official Facebook page with racist posts, including one that claimed that there was no such thing as a British Muslim.

Five days later, the MailOnline ran a story headlined ‘Arrested for quoting Winston Churchill’. The implication was that to simply quote from Britain’s national ‘hero’ was now a criminal offence. But this was disproved both by the inflammatory content of Churchill’s statements on Islam (‘the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it’), and by the fact that the arrested man was far-right leader Paul Weston. Far from being jailed for quoting the wartime Prime Minister, Weston was taken into custody after failing to comply with a police dispersal order while delivering a speech through a megaphone to passers-by on the steps of Winchester Guildhall. He was also arrested on suspicion of religious or racial harassment following complaints by a member of the public.

Weston used to head the British Freedom Party, a splinter group of the BNP. He currently heads the far-right Liberty GB party, which provides followers with resources on how to effectively oppose the planning and building of mosques in the UK. Yet, as with flag-waving Samantha Gurney, the Mail neglected to report Weston’s political background; he was described simply as a ‘European election candidate’. (The story also made the Telegraph, which also failed to mention Weston’s past in the BNP, though it did not imply the criminalisation of quoting British figureheads.)

http://www.irr.org.uk/news/is-the-far-right-setting-the-daily-mails-agenda/

Not the 'far right', but the Tories. If it were the far right they wouldn't be slagging off UKIP would they? Of course papers are politically motivated, look at the Daily Mirror ffs. And of course your favourite the Huff 'n Puff, which used to be pretty well-balanced but after a change of ownership went decidedly lefty. And the Guardian, although I like that paper, has more interesting stuff when you ignore the political bits.

Tesstacious wrote:Not the 'far right', but the Tories.  If it were the far right they wouldn't be slagging off UKIP would they?  Of course papers are politically motivated, look at the Daily Mirror ffs.  And of course your favourite the Huff 'n Puff, which used to be pretty well-balanced but after a change of ownership went decidedly lefty.  And the Guardian, although I like that paper, has more interesting stuff when you ignore the political bits.

Tories Tess?
They are talking about where the information for the stories came from, anyway you are right all have political agenda's but you know my views on the Mail anyway.
Tad difficult to find an unbiased source these days to be honest anyway and have to gauge astory by reading many

The Wail has a history of supporting the Nazis - certainly pre war.
Since then it has always been on the far side of the right, and seems to be drifting even further in that direction.

The Mail hates the far left (UKIP) and the far right (EDL).

They love the Conservatives and Labour, who are both centre.

BigAndy9 wrote:The Mail hates the far left (UKIP) and the far right (EDL).

They love the Conservatives and Labour, who are both centre.

That is again comical to say the least, you mean they love Labour so much they made an article calling Ed's father a traitor, which created outrage?
Andy, please stop before you further embarrass yourself yet again

BigAndy9 wrote:The Mail hates the far left (UKIP)
They love Labour,

     
Oh dear, Big Andy. Another Clarkson moment.

Handy Andy wrote:

BigAndy9 wrote:The Mail hates the far left (UKIP)
They love Labour,

     
Oh dear, Big Andy. Another Clarkson moment.

Why, where's the comparison between those statements of fact and anything Mr Clarkson has ever said?

BigAndy9 wrote:

Handy Andy wrote:
     
Oh dear, Big Andy. Another Clarkson moment.

Why, where's the comparison between those statements of fact and anything Mr Clarkson has ever said?

They are both terminological inexactitudes.
Or more simply, one is guff, the other speaks guff.
Even you would admit labour are left wing. Haven't you rw'ers branded Milliband a Communist?
As for UKIP being left wing. Really?

Handy Andy wrote:

BigAndy9 wrote:


Why, where's the comparison between those statements of fact and anything Mr Clarkson has ever said?

They are both terminological inexactitudes.
Or more simply,  one is guff, the other speaks guff.
Even you would admit labour are left wing. Haven't you rw'ers branded Milliband a Communist?
As for UKIP  being left wing. Really?

Labour and the Conservatives are no different from each other - ok, one Party talks tough, but are not.

UKIP are most certainly left wing.

BigAndy9 wrote:The Mail hates the far left (UKIP) and the far right (EDL).

They love the Conservatives and Labour, who are both centre.

I doubt you could call Milliband centre. He has moved well away from the centre.