links for 2009-10-05

"It was clear from listening to their experiences that there’s no consensus on this. At the one extreme, local councils had denied access and even been accused of making late-night pressuring calls to remove material, while at the other end of the scale, some more enlightened council press officers treated the new news sources in the same way as the established local newspaper."

"Earlier this week it appeared that the Mail had turned up the irresponsibility in reporting Natalie Morton's death up to 11 and that there was surely no way that anyone could skew the story more incorrectly in order to create panic. But wait. Back comes the Express today with what could be the most disgraceful front page of all time - "Jab 'as deadly as the cancer'""

"A German crime novel has been withdrawn from publication at the last minute because of fears that it will spark a violent reaction from Muslims. To Whom Honour is Due, by Gabrliel Brinkmann (writing under the pseudonym WW Domsky) concerns an honour killing. For some reason, the publisher Droste Verlag, thought it had better send the manuscript off to an 'expert on Islamic society' for their opinion."

08:00, Tuesday October 6th - New Doctor Who logo.

"I’m especially vexed about this, because generally Tesco get things beautifully right. But, this product has left me with a really bad taste in the mouth. It’ll be interesting to see whether Tesco bother to respond to this blog post (they are monitoring the web, right?) and to read their responses to my three separate complaints through their unpleasant website. I’d have sent one, but it’s difficult to do that in 255 characters."

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"A pathologist has confirmed that the human papilloma virus (HPV) vaccine did not cause the death of Natalie Morton, the schoolgirl from Coventry."