The whitetops
The Express is aimed at the elderly, so stories about pensions are hot.
The Mail is aimed at women, so stories about women get a following wind.
Hardly surprising, then, that for nearly a decade they've been concerned about the raising of the state pension age for women. It's been a scandal, a crisis, a betrayal, causing outrage and misery.
The Mail is aimed at women, so stories about women get a following wind.
Hardly surprising, then, that for nearly a decade they've been concerned about the raising of the state pension age for women. It's been a scandal, a crisis, a betrayal, causing outrage and misery.
The Mail was beating this drum only last month...
Imagine, then, what these papers might have said if the Conservatives had decided to do the right thing by the "betrayed generation"? "Boris promises justice" or some such?
We don't have to imagine too hard. Here's the Express when it thought there was about to be a reverse in 2011
We don't have to imagine too hard. Here's the Express when it thought there was about to be a reverse in 2011
But it was Labour that rode to the rescue...so here's the reality this week.
It seems that if you're a "Waspi" Mail or Express reader you can be jettisoned for the greater cause of Mr Johnson.
It seems that if you're a "Waspi" Mail or Express reader you can be jettisoned for the greater cause of Mr Johnson.
Telegraph and Mirror
Two thoughts on today's election press coverage. That the Mail would give four spreads to bashing Corbyn is no surprise. The Telegraph's antipathy is also well documented. But when you have the anti-semitism 'gift', why overegg with Johnson's surmise on what Corbyn might think on the union?
Second, I bang on about the rightwing press veering into propaganda. There are more of them than pro-Labour papers, but they are not the only ones failing. The Mirror's election coverage is pretty awful too. Today's splash was a good diversion for Corbyn, but he rabbi story and the Labour leader's response is too big to be hidden like this.
None of the popular papers is doing its job of informing the voting public. If you're looking for something small and snappy, the i is the only one making any real attempt at even-handedness.
ut people care more about the Jungle and Jose. And therein lies our fate.
None of the popular papers is doing its job of informing the voting public. If you're looking for something small and snappy, the i is the only one making any real attempt at even-handedness.
ut people care more about the Jungle and Jose. And therein lies our fate.