Peel Headstone

[ken garner]

er, not entirely sure what you're implying there, mate, but, boring / 
pompous polytechnic media studies lecturer point coming up, do not 
make the mistake of conflating the party political position of any 
newspaper with that of its readers, who may buy it or read it for a 
whole variety of reasons. Nearly as many Sun readers through the 80s 
and early 90s when asked described themselves as Labour voters as 
Tory voters, for example. There is a significant minority of 
Telegraph readers from the liberal left, while the political 
positions of both the Financial Times and (most recently) The Times, 
have often been to the left of their traditional readership. At any 
level, the Telegraph remains a provocative, generally well-written 
and entertaining newspaper, though not the force it once was. I like 
to read things I disagree with, keeps me on my toes. I may buy The 
Guardian sometimes for the soduko and the sports section (the 
Scottish papers, including those of my first choice daily read, the 
Glasgow Herald, are all full of Scottish football), but its Op-ed 
pages - with honorable exceptions like Timothy Garton Ash and Ian 
Jack - are totally up themselves. 

sorry will shut up and go to bed now

k



--- In peel@yahoogroups.com, "thebarguest" <thebarguest@...> wrote:
>
> reminds me of the early 80's when mark e smith said in interviews
> that he supported thatcher - the nme were flumoxed, they loved his
> music but ........
> 
> --- In peel@yahoogroups.com, "ken garner" <ken_garner@> wrote:
> >
> > sorry, there was a leader too, true, but both pieces have 
produced 
> > some comments and letters already on the Telegraph site, some 
> nutty, 
> > most supportive of John and critical of the paper. It does seem a 
> > particularly easy and mean target to go for on Valentine's Day...
> > 
> > PS. I think I should at this point point out that the single 
> greatest 
> > number of factual errors I spotted about Peel around his death 
> > appeared in the Telegraph. Their page 3 report on the day after 
the 
> > funeral was particularly remiss. I have always enjoyed shocking 
my 
> > journalism students by saying that the Telegraph is one of the 
two 
> > national papers I enjoy most, and yet which also drives me crazy, 
> but 
> > I must say my feelings about the Telegraph have changed 
> dramatically 
> > since those days in late 2004. You could always trust its foreign 
> and 
> > business coverage, for example, whatever you thought about other 
> > stuff. Now, I'm not so sure...
> > 
> > 
> > --- In peel@yahoogroups.com, "ken garner" <ken_garner@> wrote:
> > >
> > > 
> > > This is the offending column, by Michael Henderson, in 
Saturday's 
> > > edition:
> > > 
> > > http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?
> > > xml=/opinion/2008/02/16/do1603.xml
> > > 
> > > I was tempted to write but what's the point
> > > 
> > > k
> > > 
> > > 
> > > --- In peel@yahoogroups.com, "grang354" <colin_ellis@> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > And here's a piece from the Torygraph, which provoked a 
> response 
> > > from a 
> > > > fogeyish leader writer:
> > > > 
> > > > http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?
> > > > xml=/news/2008/02/13/npeel113.xml
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > --- In peel@yahoogroups.com, "Rob Brewer" <lists@> wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > On Feb 12, 2008 3:18 PM, Julian Porter <spiggytopes55@> 
wrote:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/7240623.stm
> > > > > 
> > > > > There's a picture here:
> > > > > 
> > > > > http://www.flickr.com/photos/norfolkodyssey/2223211584/
> > > > > 
> > > > > Of *course* someone's left a demo for him.
> > > > > 
> > > > > 
> > > > > -- 
> > > > > Rob Brewer rob@ http://www.rbrwr.org
> > > > > "The [central limit theorem] would have been personified by 
> the 
> > > Greeks
> > > > > and deified, if they had known of it." -- Francis Galton
> > > > >
> > > >
> > >
> >
>