Quite enjoying reading through all their clarifications.
It's a lesson in bad journalism.
Ukip is now MORE popular than LABOUR: Nigel Farage gets polls boost as Ukip surges ahead
Clarification
We would like to clarify that the poll referred to in this article, that puts Ukip ahead of Labour, is a poll of Sun readers.
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monkeon schmonkeon, Fri 29 Jul 2016, 11:24,
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I dont think it's even seen as 'bad' journalism these days
Craft your content round the proprietor's agenda. Emotional response is more important than the facts
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To be fair, that's always happened.
The precursor to newspapers was pamphlets, polemical in the extreme. Only difference now is bidniz.
Journalists were always one of the lowest professions; that they have any status at all is down to investigative reporting, I suppose.
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Mr Mann I love pigs, best of all the animals, Fri 29 Jul 2016, 11:43,
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you're probably spot on
I dont remember the agenda leaking into the content quite so blatantly a few years ago. Seemed to be a more defined line between 'editorial' and 'news'
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