Integrity from a Guardian journalist.
A Guardian writer has hit back at the newspaper for failing to disclose a cat killer who murdered a stranger was transgender.
Journalist Louise Tickle accused the newspaper of “deceiving its readers” after it failed to mention Scarlet Blake was a trans woman.
The 26-year-old was found guilty last week of murdering Jorge Martin Carreno in July 2021 on his way home from a night out.
The Guardian has been openly deceiving readers for decades. It is ingrained into its DNA. If it told the truth, the whole shebang would implode. Still, it’s nice that someone has had the gumption to call them out. Make the most of it.
In an open letter to Guardian editor Katharine Viner, Tickle said: “I’ve contributed to the Guardian for nearly two and a half decades.
“But as a result of an utterly dismaying news piece published on Friday, I cannot do so again until I’m confident that the Guardian is able to demonstrate that its reporters, editors and management understand what constitutes a fact, and stops deceiving its readers.
Good luck with that. Leopard, meet spots and all that.
Not just The Guardian. The current furore about Lee Anderson’s comments show the dishonesty of the media. I have listened to or watched: BBC, LBC, ITV, Talk TV and not one of them , not one, has reported that in his statement about Sadiq Khan being under the control of Islamists he also said that Keir Starmer is under their control.It wasn’t after a pause in the flow of his statement. It is quite clear that he had not finished when he mentioned Khan and there was more to come. But the MSM have deliberately chosen to leave that out. Of course, if they report honestly, and that would include Anderson’s claim about Starmer, that shows the confected outrage about ‘racism’ to be absurd, ridiculous and untrue. As for ‘Islamphobia’, anyone who knows a reasonable amount about Islam, its teachings, its actions and the life of its ‘prophet’ and is not then an ‘Islamophobe’ is an idiot.
I’m late on this but your observation isn’t true of Talk TV. On Monday or Tuesday Julia Hartley-Brewer devoted part of her programme to pointing out that Anderson had said the same of Starmer and asking why the MSM had concealed this.
Saw that too. She is however a one off.
Yes, I noticed this one after I wrote this.
I have long argued that as the importance of facts decreased and the opinions increased then newspapers should really be called ‘opinionpapers’. However with the exclusion of facts even the ‘opinionpapers’ is no longer appropriate.
My latest ‘definition’ is that papers like the Grauniad are now no better than progressive fan magazines. Preaching to the partisan choir who don’t need the distraction of thought. It’s worse in America.
They certainly promote blatant falsehoods that fit with the narrative that their fan club like.
Off topic, but in the same thread of mistruths and deception, my daughter mentioned yesterday that they had been learning about climate change at (primary) school and she was worried about the polar bears dying out because they were all starving due to the ice melting.
Perfect timing, this paper was published today and I took great delight in getting her to read the executive summary on page 5 and look at some of the charts further down. It was like a little light bulb came on when I explained about correlation vs causation and how the climate fanatics like to pick and choose their data. Worth a read.
https://www.thegwpf.org/content/uploads/2024/02/Crockford-State-of-Polar-Bears-2023.pdf
The Guardian is lying to you, the BBC is lying to you, the government is lying to you.
Not all the time, of course, that would be too easy. But often enough that anything they tell you should be treated as a lie until proven otherwise.
Because I take an interest in the climate issue, I observe the BBC lying constantly. On that particular subject they are pretty consistent. So much so that when they reported on an earthquake in Turkey my first thought was not to believe it until I had heard it from several independent sources.
I take everything they say is a lie until proven otherwise. It saves a lot of time and effort because most of it is.
She could have done it properly and referred to him as a man, rather than a trans woman. But still, progress…
Good old J K Rowling weighed in on this on Twitter and deflected some of the rabid transcultists from Louise yesterday.
Remember the Guardian TV advert back in the ’90s showing the same scene from different angles to demonstrate how a single viewpoint can distort your perception? I always found that deeply ironic.