This sounds brilliant. A tv show based on exposing the mental influence of the tabloids<\/a> Not just tabloids in general, with their z-list celebs and soap opera stars, but the most mind-sapping terror-inducing tabloid – the Daily Mail.<\/p>\n

The film Supersize Me showed you are what you eat, but is it true that you are what you read?
\nNew documentary The Daily Mail Diet aims to find out as it follows film maker Nick Angel giving up all TV, radio, print and online news sources for 28 days – except for the Daily Mail.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Mr Angel said: “It’s important to know what the Mail thinks, because it’s a lightning rod (or so it claims) to ‘Middle England’ – that ill-defined and slightly scary mass of people whose various incarnations include the ‘Moral Majority’ and ‘All Right Thinking People’.
\n“And in a sense, there’s a little bit of Daily Mail in all of us – who hasn’t felt their cheeks flush and blood boil when snapped by a speed camera or confronted with some maddening example of NHS bureaucracy?
\n“That’s what makes the Mail such a potent force – because while it’s loathsome, it’s also weirdly attuned to the dark heart of the British psyche.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

If you can get to see this programme, it sounds really worth watching.<\/p>\n

By coincidence, it’s particularly relevant today. Following on from yesterday’s post here<\/a> and Xanderg’s (of badnewsbible’s<\/a>) excellent comments, the Daily Mail seems intent on lowering the bar below its even its own usual ant-limboing level.<\/p>\n

The Tory leader is calling for the repeal of the Human Rights Act and the government is doing its best to pull the despotism rug from under the Tories by itself challenging the operation of the courts. Scenting success for its worldview, the Daily Mail has redoubled its attack, over the Chindamo case.<\/p>\n

Here are three headlines from pages linking to today’s main Stephen Lawrence storyMail’s pages<\/a> which carries the title ‘He’s no risk’: why jail boss backed Lawrence killer<\/strong> (I’m selflessly ploughing through this rubbish so you don’t have to. You can get the flavour of it from the headlines. But if you want to try an experimental diet of the Daily Mail, the link will take you to enough pages to undermine your will to live):
\nThe quangocrats who let Chindamo stay<\/strong> (They are referring to the Immigration Appeals Tribunal, not previously known as liberal trailblazers.)
\nChindamo’s Mafia gangster father awaiting trial for murder in Spain<\/strong> (Guilt by association, even though it seems the boy has barely seen his father since he was three.)
\n COMMENTARY: Has the law deprived Frances Lawrence of justice?<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Commentary refers to an editorial piece which tugs at the reader’s sympathy and emotions but signally fails to make any logical connection between sympathy for Frances Lawrence and their case for overriding EC law to deport Chindamo. <\/p>\n

Why does justice <\/em>for Frances Lawrence require that her husband’s killer doesn’t live in Britain? I know that Great Britain is a small island (compared to the land mass of Canada, say) but there are still about 65 million of us living here. The chance of accidentally bumping into him in Tesco’s is statistically pretty slim.<\/p>\n

Just in case you think we are all certifiably mad in the UK, there’s a reasoned piece by Katie Ghose in the Guardian.<\/a> This human rights hysteria threatens every one of us.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Once again we are in the grip of human rights hysteria. Variously blamed for allowing prisoners access to porn and preventing police forces from publishing photographs of suspects, the latest attack on the Human Rights Act relates to the decision not to deport Learco Chindamo, who is serving a life sentence for the murder of head-teacher Philip Lawrence in 1995.
\nHuman rights have never been a passport to porn – nor were they an obstacle to the conviction or sentence of Chindamo, who is serving a minimum of 12 years for his brutal attack. But the truth takes a back seat when there are juicy headlines to be made out of human rights “lunacy”.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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