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What paper do you believe?

Not the Daily Mail, the Daily Express, the Sun or the Daily Telegraph, as demonstrated in these figures on rulings for inaccuracy in 2017 by the press regulator IPSO:

https://tabloidcorrections.files.wordpress.com/2018/01/ipso-rulings-2017.jpg

Richard Carter ● 2564d9 Comments

Thanks, Richard. Do you know what the stats are for serious newspapers like the Guardian and Independent?

Michael Ixer ● 2564d

Is the Times not a serious newspaper?  Interesting stats though and I'd like to know about these two as well.  It is hard to find "the truth".

Bunny Payne ● 2564d

Does anyone read The Times since it went behind a paywall? Even The Telegraph is pretty much useless online.Only Mail, Guardian and Independent are free online now

Sean Hodges ● 2564d

It is true.But I go online to read reports from many sources, excluding YouTube.Then, on balance, I decide which bits of the reports I believe....  Sad, but true.

Ivonne Holliday ● 2564d

First rule about online: Nothing is free!

Ed Robinson ● 2563d

I thought there was only one serious paper left and that is the FT.Not sure for how much longer.The rest just seem to be full of options without the facts.It’s got to the stage where I don’t even get the so called free paper from Waitrose.

Ed Robinson ● 2563d

Michael, IPSO publish their results (here: https://www.ipso.co.uk/rulings-and-resolution-statements/complaints-statistics/) but the site is pretty impenetrable and after a try I gave up struggling with it.

Richard Carter ● 2563d

I pay £5 a month to read the Times online. Also Guardian and Daily Mail, i newspaper, but no longer the Telegraph (as bad  as the Mail if slightly better written) or Independent. BBC, Channel 4 and Sky for news.

Lucille Grant ● 2563d

The IPSO site seems to adhere to the "security by obscurity" philosophy, although I assume it is supposed to be public information? I was trying to download the 2018 annual report but the link that says "download 2018 report" doesnt infact appear to be an active hyperlink! (2017 is active and other years look like they are.) I'll assume that the complaints against the Guardian, Independent etc are statistically insignificant 🙂 

Michael Ixer ● 2563d