Is This Fair Journalism?

[sp1814]

Or has the Mail slipped up again?

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/mail-on-sunday-apologises-for-terrible-lapse-of-judgement-after-reporter-gatecrashed-memorial-service-for-ed-milibands-uncle-8856302.html

[sandyRoe]

First traducing the dead and now this. The gutter press will be alive and well while they're about.

[sp1814]

Oh - and in the interests of full disclosure -

A) I think this was pretty tactless, especially with the brouhaha over the original story.

B) I like kicking the Daily Mail

C) I also like the word 'brouhaha'

[sandyRoe]

'Traducing' is my word of the day. I'll try to use it whenever I can.

[Zeuhl]

Fair/Unfair?

related to journalism? - I don't know

Shabby, squalid, despicable, inappropriate etc ..... Yes

[ChillDoubt]

Of course they've slipped up, but then some feel it's only right the press are allowed to attack AND offend.

You'd honestly think that Leveson had never happend!

[andy-hughes]

It was another appalling piece of misjudgement, and really could not have come at a worse time for the mail.

If the Mail wants to try and present itself as a defender of a free press, then invading private memorials to obtain reaction about one of its attack campaigns is really not the way to go about it.

the well-used phrase 'Fire ... crowded theatre' comes to mind - again!

[mikey4444]

Yet another attempt to smear the Labour Party.

[jake-the-peg]

Doubtlessly another fne example of why the press should be allowed to regulate themselves

[FredPuli43]

Be fair. They didn't hack anyone's phone to do this.

[Quizmonster]

The Mail appears to be putting into practice the old dictum, "There's only one thing to do when you've gone too far...go further!" Why am I not surprised at the ghastly rag?

[ToraToraTora]

when was journalism ever fair?

[sp1814]

Okay my Liberal teeth-gnashing chums...let's play devil's advocate...

Perhaps they genuinely wanted to get the opinion of the Milliband family - to hear their side of the story - and this was the way of getting a group of them at the same time?

[ChillDoubt]

I really cannot undertsand the timing and why they chose to 'report' (I use the term very loosely) on this non-story knowing it would cause havoc and detract from the Tory party conference.
They've been roundly condemned by the hierarchy of all political parties (bar the one village idiot whose wife has a vested interest in the rag), Dacre can't even face the music himself but sends one of his minnions and they have to remove a very offensive picture form their website.
It was as well planned, executed but as successful as Operation Barbarossa!

[ChillDoubt]

No link as yet but it's flashing on the BBC ticker that 2 journos from the MoS have been suspended.

[jake-the-peg]

Yes - I'll bet they have

The DM was trying to spin Milliband's outrage as a wannebe tyrant attempting to muzzle the press

Having two of it's journalists do this totally undermines its argument and demonstrates that allowing journalists to regulate themselves is like putting the Kray's in charge of the Police

[jno]

this is the Mail on Sunday, not the Daily Mail - sister papers but separate operations and separate editors. The MoS editor used to edit The Tatler and has always seemed to me a bit more couth than his opposite number on the daily (or maybe I'm just a mug). He's responded appropriately, apologising promptly and suspending the two journos.

He might of course have known in advance that the gatecrashing was going to happen, but most likely not; editors don't handle the day-to-day activities of their journalists.

But as jake says, this undermines the corporate case for self-regulation.

[jno]

lengthy piece about it here if you want to put your feet up with a pipe and a glass of whisky

http://www.theguardian.com/media/2013/oct/03/mail-on-sunday-tensions-greig-dacre-miliband