Telegraph inaccurately reported on ‘Green Lunacy’ issues, press watchdog rules
The Telegraph’s digitally altered image of Lord Mayor Clover Moore at Barangaroo
The Australian Press Council has upheld a complaint about two Daily Telegraph articles for the inaccurate reporting of traffic issues in Sydney, the second tim the paper has been censured for its coverage of the topic.
Under the banner heading “Green Lunacy” the tabloid “inaccurately” reported the Lord Mayor Clover Moore’s opposition to increasing parking at the Barangaroo development and how the city council had made donations to “the Sustainable Business Council”.
In the first article headlined “Clover wants ban on Casino cars” the Lord Mayor is pictured in front of Barangaroo, dressed as a parking inspector, alongside a sign reading “No parking anytime” in a digitally altered image.
The Daily Tele isn’t the least trusted newspaper in Australia for nothing.
The Daily Tele is a disgrace. They’ve been running campaigns attacking Disability Support Pensioners for several years, and more recently began saying that members of the Brothers For Life drug-dealing gang are on the pension so therefore it should be abolished. I have repeatedly written to the editor pleading with him to stop the campaigns because of the anxiety it is causing among people who are already emotionally frail and in some cases suicidal. Inevitably they will drop the campaign, then a few weeks later when they think I’ve gone away they will start it up again, more vicious and spiteful than ever.
If the Daily Telegraph closed down tomorrow most people would stand up and cheer. This type of yellow, cowardly tabloid journalism went out of favour a few years ago and the plummeting circulation figures bear this out.
Wow, Limited News pushes barely informed political tripe through a “news” paper. Nobody saw this coming. Ever.
The Tele and the Australian simply serve the bogan and bigot brigade. Fact!
Am I the lone reader of the ‘Tele here who reads it for the jokes? The entire paper, that is…
Bob, Anonymous, Credible Not and Steiner – stick with the ABC and Fairfax, you absolute nobs.
Also, I look forward to every upheld Press Council complaint against Fairfax getting its own Mumbrella story.
@Robbo: Mumbrella does write stories on upheld Fairfax complaints. It’s just that there are a lot more complaints upheld against the Tele than Fairfax. Especially under Paul Whittaker’s reign.