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Gordon H writes:
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| Yes, but the point isn't the fact they have a bias - even the Independent
| does - but whether they deliberately distort and even falsify facts in
| order to propagate their prejudices. That is propaganda.
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| And the simple fact is that the Daily Telegraph is probably the worst
| newspaper in the UK for doing that, though the Sun runs it close.
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| Aren't you forgetting the Daily Mail, or do you refuse to credit it with
| the description "newspaper"?

No and perhaps. I am referring specifically to deliberate distortion
and falsification, and not merely bigoted drivel. The reason that the
Daily Telegraph is so pernicious is that it appears to a naive reader
to be a NEWSpaper, and it dresses up its propaganda as facts
sufficiently well that otherwise not-totally-idiotic readers believe
what it says.

I know of quite a few fairly intelligent readers of the Daily Mail
and Sun, and few of them even look at its political pages! They most
certainly don't believe them - the only people who do are beyond hope.

Look back at the archives of this group - virtually every story of
this kind that has been believed by at least some non-trolls and later
discovered to be essentially false has started in the Daily Telegraph.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.