Thread on misleading think tank spiel by @ce_pickles, the Director of the right-leaning @ReformThinkTank. I gave her the chance below (to correct/clarify) what she said on #bbcaq ("NHS is 46% of day to day public spending by 2025") at 38.30 - 39.00 bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0… 1/17

https://twitter.com/ce_pickles/status/1555928121148424192

What she said had ALREADY been debunked TWICE last yearr by fact-checkers @FullFact.
See fullfact.org/economy/health… (when The S*n used Ms Pickles' wording) & then fullfact.org/health/health-… (when the Mail still used it regardless). But @ce_pickles went even further to mislead. 2/17

A thread showing how, as The Sun's "confidential source" Rebecca Vardy lost the #WagathaChristie case, the "newspaper" (a generous description) itself took one of a helluva kicking in the judgment. NB Schadenfreude warning! 1/ You can tell that The Sun knew that it and its journalistic standards suffered withering criticism by the fact that, in 1000s of words of coverage, Murdoch's rag doesn't mention The Sun once! That's despite being named by the judge over 125 times in 290 paragraphs. 2/

A thread: This story is, of course, false and distorted and serves the interests of the billionaire owners of the Telegraph (and Mail, Times and S*n). The law concerned was proposed by a senior Judge (Leveson) after a public inquiry. 1/ telegraph.co.uk/politics/2022/… It guarantees affordable access to justice to (1) ordinary people who are seeking to take on the corporate media (eg The Telegraph), and (2) to small publishers (ie not The Telegraph) who cant afford to defend themselves from wealthy claimants. 2/

Thread from the Daniel Morgan Panel Report that you won't read in the press.

1/8 The Mirror Editor at the time was Piers "I knew nothing" Morgan, and the NoTW Editor was Phil "How am I supposed to know" Hall, and his deputy had just been Rebekah "I don't recall" Wade. 2/ The NoTW Editor who excused surveillance of a murder inquiry head on the basis that DCS Cook was having an affair with his well-known wife (and mother to their two children) was Rebekah "I know all about affairs" Wade.

1/6 This @DomPonsford is absolutely the point. There were valid points made by me and others which never descended to abuse or vitriol (dished out daily btw by The S*n). These were (1) that it was shameful not to mention even the existence of poor Harue in an obit (glad you did)

https://twitter.com/Gavhollander/status/1391796145278668800

2/6 (2) that his role in the shameful fake interview with the grieving Falklands widow should be pointed out (as most obits point out professional lows as well as high), (3) that to claim he was this uniquely great story-getter when he was not fabricating interviews,

Here’s a thread about why Royal reporting is barely journalism

The Sunday Times’ @RoyaNikkah is very proud of her multi-page puff piece on #PrinceWilliam

thetimes.co.uk/article/up-clo… (£)

I am sure he’s a nice fella, but there only one attributable source (a Mr Miguel Head).
1/5 ..It seems Ms Nikkah could not persuade anyone else to say all these (nice) things about #PrinceWilliam on the record.

This "journalism" relies on the actual existence and cowardly anonymity of.. (deep breath)..

Two “a senior Royal source” (gosh - senior and Royal!)
and...
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A typical example of "Royal" so-called journalism in the tabloid press (inc Times & Telegraph) with not a single attributed source dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9…. It relies on ... (deep breath) ...
* one "palace insider"
* one "insider" (presumably inside a shed, not a palace)
..1/4 and...
* one "source close to Prince William" (the rest being distant we must assume)
* one "Royal source" (the others being merely common)
* two "sources" (plural)
* two "a source"
* one well-placed source.. and
* one the "the Mail on Sunday" understands (a psychic source)
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