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Daily Mail editor’s speech at media enquiry

The heavyweight appearances at the Leveson inquiry keep coming, with Daily Mail editor Paul Dacre giving a rare and fascinating personal insight this afternoon into the issues facing today’s media.

His defence of self regulation and the Press Complaints Commission may have come too late, but there were some notable concessions in his speech too, including a promise to have a corrections column in a prominent position in his papers. Who would have thought that would have happened a year ago? I will be following this development with some interest.

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Rubbish rant of the week goes to Daily Mail

Rubbish container for food waste

As someone who works with journalists, it’s important to keep across what they are writing about – even if I don’t agree with their views.

That’s my main reason for reading the Daily Mail, which often amazes with its combination of fear and fury on behalf of Middle England (if there is such a thing). Fact is, it’s a good read too and many journalists I know admire the way it chimes with its readers’ views even if they don’t like what it stands for.

None of that really accounts for one of the oddest few lines I’ve read in a newspaper column for a long time however, on a chance reading earlier this week.

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