The Telegraph And Ipso

[Hymie]

The latest edition of Private Eye has an interesting article on the Telegraph and Ipso (the Independent Press Standards Organisation) – at the risk of copyright infringement, below is the last paragraph of that article.

We should never forget that the Telegraph has already put it on record that nothing its columnists write should be regarded as accurate or taken seriously. In 2019 it admitted that its star writer’s output was merely ‘sweeping generalisations based on his opinions...clearly comically polemical, and could not be read as a serious, empirical, in-depth analysis of hard factual matters’; it attempted (unsuccessfully) to persuade Ipso this meant he should be allowed to lie about statistics with impunity. A mere three months later Boris Johnson (for it was he) was put in charge of the whole country.

[naomi24]

I suggest you look up the definition of ‘newspaper columnist’. Their output is based upon their own opinions and should be taken with a pinch of salt - just like the bilge from the overgrown
schoolboys at Private Eye.

[Hymie]

One of things about the bilge from the overgrown schoolboys at Private Eye is that later (and in some cases years later), the national press/media pick up on their bilge (and it becomes a major news story) – often that bilge exposes wrongdoing by our leaders (and others), that save for Private Eye would never see the light of day.