A Direct Quote From Daily Mail Journo Joanna Moorhead

[mccfluff]

She wrote a piece on Tamworth being the fattest town.. despite the data being 6 years out of date... anyway lets not get into that

"I don;t really know if i represented the town fairly - my editor wanted me to write a colour piece. We pick and choose what we include and i was asked to look at Tamworth as an outsider, regarding obesity. every side should have its say but i didn't even plan to over the other side."

o wonder if this is applied to other articles written.... :-)

[anotheoldgit]

First can we have a link please, and secondly Joanna Moorhead writes for the Guardian.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2286750/The-town-McDonalds-counts-health-food-Tamworth-named-obesity-capital-Britain.html?ITO=socialnet-googleplus-dailymail

http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/joannamoorhead

[mccfluff]

http://www.thisistamworth.co.uk/Supersize-lies-fat-fact-sandwich-shop-s-best/story-18343860-detail/story.html#axzz2Mryv1ZXl

the article referred to was in last saturday's daily mail, centre spread. Im sure you saw it

[emmie]

she seems to write for any number of papers, magazines by the looks of it.

[mccfluff]

maybe Joanna moorhead is freelance

[mccfluff]

i was more interested in this part of what she had to say

"We pick and choose what we include and i was asked to look at Tamworth as an outsider, regarding obesity. every side should have its say but i didn't even plan to over the other side"

[emmie]

i read that article, i only know tamworth by name, but she seemed to think, going on the published article, that the place definitely has an obesity problem, also linked into to high unemployment...

[Zeuhl]

As I have posted before, one of my friends is a freelance and worked for The Daily Wail for a while.

Ms Moorhead's admission backs up my friend's rather jaded view of Daily Wail journalism; in short, writers (staff and freelance) are briefed on the paper's agenda, sorry, it's interpretation of its readers' main interests (ie prejudices and preconceived notions of the world) and it is clear what type of story will be most readily purchased.

His low opinion of the paper is mostly due however, to its willingness to run stories without proper (or any) verification if they 'fit the agenda'.

And their wilful reluctance to admit a mistake when someone complains about lies and fabrications unless and until someone's lawyer gets them by the throat.

[mccfluff]

thats the problem Em, the stats she based it on are 6 years old and inaccurate now. lazy journalism

[Barmaid]

Lazy journalism? In the Daily Mail? Now come on fluffy, you know that can't be right..............

[mccfluff]

sorry bm i forget, they never write one sided inaccurate articles...