Franglais:
Mazzer2:
All newspapers slew their articles towards their own agenda, the last link you put up from the Independent has a line under the headline mocking the Home Secretary about taking control of our borders when the article is referring to the borders of other countries something no Home Secretary has control over. The point being the article is about border delays for UK citizens entering EU countries yet they have a dig at the Home Secretary, why? Because despite it’s name the Independent takes every opportunity to lambast the Tory party, in the same way that if Labour were in power the right wing press would use every opportunity to lambast them.
All newspapers lie just some are more subtle than others.That link was in another thread, so here
s a copy for anyone else: [independent.co.uk/travel/ne ... 59314.html](https://www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-and-advice/brexit-passport-british-travellers-border-b1759314.html) Factual, Id say. All borders have two sides, and obviously each country only controls one side. Queues more likely to be longer.
Does it “lambast the Tories”? Does it “have a dig”?
I accept The Independent is left leaning, but I`m not sure that particular piece shows it.“All newspapers lie” ?
Some seem to make career out of repeated lies, untruths, and bias.
Some others make errors. None are flawless.
But the serial screaming about impending disaster from the Express and Mail take some beating. What is particularly amusing is how they call others “fear mongers” and call out “project fear” when they are guiltier than most of such.
We also have some posters on TNUK talking about Brexit and C19 “facts”, that aren`t facts. Quoting what these sites report as “experts” and “scientists” saying without any sources, and often are either fiction or twisting what is said. Then true experts are blamed because the crap from these rags is proved false, but it is the genuine experts get to carry the can for the lies of others.
But the statement is factually incorrect no Home Secretary has control over another countries borders, in which case why put it in there? As I said some are more subtle than others, the Guardian will publish articles where the facts can be dubious as opinion pieces and so defend the pieces by saying they are the opinion of the writer not a factual assessment of the subject yet run it under a Daily Express/Daily Mail type headline.
The amount of lies spouted by newspapers can depend on what is happening in the world at a given time and how it fits in with their views, the left leaning press in the UK ran plenty of incorrect stories during and in the aftermath of the Gulf War. The Guardian’s go to solicitor for allegations of torture by British soldiers has since been struck off for malpractice the Guardian probably didn’t do to much fact checking as the story suited them, bit like the Mirror and it’s false allegations of torture.
Both the Express and the Guardian are well down the daily sales lists so neither are hardly mainstream views so to look at these two papers as a reflection of Britain would be wrong even though between them they do most of the shouting, which leads to something I was told years ago " Generally those who shout the loudest are shouting to hide their deficiencies"