The Sun spent a full 16+ hour day with the PM on the campaign trail, in a documentary rather similar to their old ‘A Day in the Life of David Cameron’. Naturally, this time there weren’t any candid scenes with the family…
In what is a new speed record for the Guido Fawkes School of Applied Journalism, after just 2 weeks here The Sun has poached Steven Edginton to beef up their video output. We wish Steven well, they must have made him an offer he could not refuse to entice him to break his contract. We are as a consequence hiring. If you have video editing skills and are ambitious email paul@order-order.com…
PoliticsHome had an “exclusive” investigation this morning into the vast sums splurged on targeted Facebook ads by Dom Raab’s unsuccessful leadership bid. As Guido suspected at the time, he was targeting the wrong audience during the MPs’ phase…
One problem with this exclusive story, The Sun already had it as an “exclusive” two and a half weeks ago on 19th June. That’s not all, a full eight days before The Sun ran it the story was actually broken by the BBC’s Joey D’Urso on 11th June, ironically the one person who didn’t plaster “exclusive” all over it. Exclusive to all news outlets everywhere…
Richard Burgon has won his libel case against The Sun for an article which claimed that his heavy metal band used “Nazi imagery”. A “delighted” Burgon has been awarded a healthy £30,000 in damages. Burgon says he will use it to fund a paid justice internship for a young person from Leeds…
The Sun have put out a statement saying they are “deeply disappointed” by the judgement and are planning to appeal:
Journalist Harriet Williamson has a large backlog of tweets slagging off one particular newspaper. In other news Guido would like to congratulate Harriet in her new freelancing role as Digital Features writer for… The Sun!
IPSO has dismissed a complaint about a Trevor Kavanagh opinion column which discussed Muslim grooming gangs in the wake of the Sarah Champion furore. Sorry right-on lefties of Twitter, there was no breach of the Editor’s Code.
A Sun spokesman said:
“This is a welcome reminder that the vitality of newspapers comes from the free exchange of ideas and opinions, perhaps particularly those which some might not like.”
Common sense at last in the week when hard left fronts like Stop Funding Hate are attacking freedom of speech…
