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> So is the news true or not? As you well know, this is not a binary decision. > It should be pretty simple in this case Mmm. Should it? Agatha Christie sto

> So is the news true or not? As you well know, this is not a binary decision. > It should be pretty simple in this case Mmm. Should it? Agatha Christie stories have been rewritten a bit over the 100 years she has been published, most notably "Ten Little Indians", which was released in the US as "And Then There Were None", but was first published in 1939 with a different noun in the title which I will not provoke a response by using. I think they were still publishing it in the UK up until the 1970s under the original title! This article, however, is trying to froth up the beetroot-faced "pint of carling and a filthy joke" Union-jack-t-shirt-wearing segment over "political correctness gone mad". Bear in mind that this is the newspaper that was founded by Fascists for Fascists in the 1930s, and most recently had a headline on the front page saying we should be machine-gunning refugee boats to stop them landing in the UK.

foldr 4y ago
I mostly agree with you, but both here and in your original comment you're confusing the Daily Telegraph with the Daily Mail. The Telegraph is a broadsheet, not a tabloid, and was founded in 1855, before Fascism was really a thing. It would help the credibility of what you were saying if you didn't keep making this basic mistake. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Daily_Telegraph https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Daily_Telegraph
- Gordonjcp 4y ago
  You know what, you're right, but I wouldn't bring myself to call the Telegraph a broadsheet simply based on the size of paper it prints on - although from a physical standpoint that is correct. The standard of journalism falls far short of that required for a broadsheet. They were highly supportive of The Wrong Side throughout WW2, and even now are agitating for violence against minorities and refugees. Anyone that buys it should be on some sort of a list.
  - foldr 4y ago
    >They [=The Daily Telegraph] were highly supportive of The Wrong Side throughout WW2 This is completely false. You're again thinking of the Mail (if you're not just making stuff up). But even the Mail wasn't pro-Nazi during WW2. I'm not sure what sort of weird ahistorical picture of WW2 you must have to think that a British newspaper would even have been allowed to publish pro-Nazi articles in the middle of the war! >and even now are agitating for violence against minorities and refugees. Where? You still seem to be thinking of headlines that have appeared in the Mail, not the Telegraph. It's also inaccurate to suggest the Telegraph is in any sense a tabloid. I'm left-leaning and do not much like the Telegraph as a newspaper. However, it was, for a long time, a serious and respected paper.
woofster 4y ago
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foldr 4y ago

I mostly agree with you, but both here and in your original comment you're confusing the Daily Telegraph with the Daily Mail. The Telegraph is a broadsheet, not a tabloid, and was founded in 1855, before Fascism was really a thing. It would help the credibility of what you were saying if you didn't keep making this basic mistake. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Daily_Telegraph https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Daily_Telegraph

Gordonjcp 4y ago
You know what, you're right, but I wouldn't bring myself to call the Telegraph a broadsheet simply based on the size of paper it prints on - although from a physical standpoint that is correct. The standard of journalism falls far short of that required for a broadsheet. They were highly supportive of The Wrong Side throughout WW2, and even now are agitating for violence against minorities and refugees. Anyone that buys it should be on some sort of a list.
- foldr 4y ago
  >They [=The Daily Telegraph] were highly supportive of The Wrong Side throughout WW2 This is completely false. You're again thinking of the Mail (if you're not just making stuff up). But even the Mail wasn't pro-Nazi during WW2. I'm not sure what sort of weird ahistorical picture of WW2 you must have to think that a British newspaper would even have been allowed to publish pro-Nazi articles in the middle of the war! >and even now are agitating for violence against minorities and refugees. Where? You still seem to be thinking of headlines that have appeared in the Mail, not the Telegraph. It's also inaccurate to suggest the Telegraph is in any sense a tabloid. I'm left-leaning and do not much like the Telegraph as a newspaper. However, it was, for a long time, a serious and respected paper.

woofster 4y ago

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