Britain needs a media that tells the truth, and reports accurately & fairly. We urgently need to address the crisis of poor quality journalism in the UK press: theguardian.com/media/2021/jan…
Hard to see how the UK press can win back the public's trust until standards of truth & accuracy are significantly improved pressgazette.co.uk/survey-finds-t…
A reminder of the Telegraph's toxic track record on COVID19: metro.co.uk/2020/03/11/tel…
Another example of the Telegraph's behaviour on COVID19 over the past year:
Today's Telegraph advertisers include @coopuk @Samsung @British_Airways @SkyCinemaUK @netflix
Telegraph coronavirus column 'significantly misleading' bbc.com/news/entertain…

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