Daily Mail - deliberately misleading readers
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James Cridland posted on Wednesday 10th April at 10:33In a piece on the Daily Mail website – which I’m quoted in, incidentally (and out of context, I wasn’t outraged, just interested) – I notice this photograph, with accompanying caption…
Putting aside the erroneous copyright attribution – it is, of course, copyright BBC – this photograph shows Huw Edwards wearing a bright pink tie… and a poppy, therefore dating this photograph to one November. (Since the background isn’t the standard background for BBC News, we can’t even work out the year.)
Did they trawl their archives deliberately looking for a copy of Huw wearing a bright inappropriate tie – to leave people with the impression that this was the tie he was wearing on the day? It certainly looks like it.
Because… he wasn’t wearing a bright pink tie. He was wearing a sombre blue patterned tie – correctly, in my opinion. And here’s the photo grab they should have used.
Believing what you read in the Daily Mail appears to be harder by the day, when they deliberately set to mislead readers like this.
I’m sorry, that just makes it worse – as it would appear from your research that Huw was wearing a jolly tie less than three and a half thousand days after the death of the Queen Mother. Where is the respect?
This takedown of the Mail’s dirty tricks by
— Ben Fell (@benjaminbunny) April 10, 2013<a href="https://twitter.com/jamescridland">jamescridland</a> atmediauk is astonishing bit.ly/10RApbt #thatcher #dailyfail #BBC
<a href="https://twitter.com/jamescridland">jamescridland</a> if they understood media ethics & responsibility, they wouldn't offer these lay-ups in the first place.</p>— Ian B Live & Direct (IBLiveAndDirect) April 10, 2013
— Tabloid Watch (@tabloidwatch) April 10, 2013
<a href="https://twitter.com/themediatweets">themediatweets</a>jamescridland Appears that photo has now been removed form the article.
“@mediauk: How the Daily Mail deliberately misleads readers: mediauk.com/newspapers/dis… #tiegate ” For the record, image used was from 2007.
— Huw Edwards (@huwbbc) April 10, 2013
Funnily enough they played this game as long ago as 1953, when Nye Bevan was accused of disrespect towards the dead Queen Mary for appearing on a BBC programme wearing a tie with a pattern. Bevan was in fact wearing a suitably black tie with a very small pattern whereas his interviewer happened to be wearing a red one. Back in the days of black and white of course…
even worse, the background Hugh is in front of is only used on Newsnight. As far as I’m aware, Hugh has never presented Newsnight?
James, how could you, and how dare you accuse the Daily Mail of misleading the public…god forbid this ever got out!
Watch yourself when walking the streets as you are now a marked man, the newspaper sellers will be on the look out for you as they bawl out, read all abowt it, “Daily Mail accused of duping the public” and when you go to buy a copy they’ll ask “are you that James geezer govner?
Just goes to prove how low the Daily Mail will stoop in its hatred towards the BBC. Time for a campaign to get this vile and nasty newspaper shut down!
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Incidentally, having gone back through the archives: Huw Edwards was in Washington DC last year in early November, broadcasting in front of a sunny White House for two BBC News programmes in the fortnight leading to Remembrance Sunday. Anna Ford, Sophie Raworth and George Alagiah anchored the programme from the UK.
This therefore would tend to indicate that the photograph the Daily Mail has trawled through their archive for is at least seventeen months old.
(Edit – see this later comment for the actual age. It turns out it’s significantly older.)