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Scoop derangement syndrome: Journalists often forget they're writing about real peopleAn exciteable announcement of a report into a woman's horrific murder is just the latest example.
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Thick white sauce: Steve Bannon, Guy Hands and Andrew Neil — three studies in getting away with itThe media always finds excuses for the most mediocre and malevolent men.
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In search of New Goonsberg: Praise for Laura Kuenssberg and preemptive predictions about her successor reveal the myopia of the British pol…There's a vast gulf between what hacks value and what reporting should be like.
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Havin'-a-column Syndrome: Squid Gaming school kids, 'needle spiking' and why British journalism loves a moral panic...Who needs proof when you've got terror?
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Dead Cheap: The treatment of John Pat Cunningham and Dennis Hutchings shows who British papers consider worth mourning and who they believe…Most of the British media doesn't even give John Pat Cunningham's family the justice of a fair hearing.
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Hack belt, first Dan: Why Dan Hodges genuinely believes he and the Daily Mail do something more than trolling... Everything's fine if you've got a byline.
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The Daily Terrorgraph: British newspapers really want their readers to be afraid… In the aftermath of terrible events, papers parrot lines from the police and security services and ratchet up the fear.
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Toxic avengers: The paper of “Enemies of the People” and “kill vampire Jezza” cannot offer lectures on civility... The ‘kindness’ of Sarah Vine and Dan Hodges doesn’t stretch very far.
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