Coronavirus update - NO MORE RESTRICTIONS

[Eric Cartman]

Re: Coronavirus update

https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/the-government-is-paying-the-sun-and-daily-mail-for-positive-coverage-of-its-coronavirus-response/28/05/

[Croesy Blue]

Re: Coronavirus update

https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/ne...esponse/28/05/

More about politics and self preservation than helping the country, everyone should be disgusted at them.

[the other bob wilson]

Re: Coronavirus update

https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/ne...esponse/28/05/

Has this appeared anywhere else? Surely it's not true?

[Loramski]

Re: Coronavirus update

Has this appeared anywhere else? Surely it's not true?

Not sure where he's got that from. The Private Eye article is saying that the £35m 'all in, all together' advertising campaign that the government ran was meant to be helping all the newspaper industry but the money ended up going to the fat cats rather than independent publishers. You can read in between the lines of that, of course, but it's quite a leap to say the government were sponsoring favourable editorials.

[Heisenberg]

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Not sure where he's got that from. The Private Eye article is saying that the £35m 'all in, all together' advertising campaign that the government ran was meant to be helping all the newspaper industry but the money ended up going to the fat cats rather than independent publishers. You can read in between the lines of that, of course, but it's quite a leap to say the government were sponsoring favourable editorials.

Remember when they spent £200k on this campaign?

What do you call an advert dressed as a 4-page investigative report about Universal Credit? Lies and #fakenews. DWP have no shame.

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[Eric Cartman]

Re: Coronavirus update

Has this appeared anywhere else? Surely it's not true?

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-8340593/amp/How-Covid-19-pandemic-threatened-businesses-Government-helping-them.html

In fairness to the big papers they are at least flagging it as 'sponsored' and mentioning the government.

[Eric Cartman]

Re: Coronavirus update

And

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/11676966/government-support-to-keep-your-business-on-the-road/

[Baloo]

Re: Coronavirus update

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.dai...ping-them.html

In fairness to the big papers they are at least flagging it as 'sponsored' and mentioning the government.

I believe that's required under Advertising Standards.

[Eric Cartman]

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I believe that's required under Advertising Standards.

Funnily they take slightly different approaches. The mail makes it crystal clear, the sun not so.

[Elwood Blues]

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Funnily they take slightly different approaches. The mail makes it crystal clear, the sun not so.

What is not clear about "Produced in partnership with the UK Government"?

[Elwood Blues]

Re: Coronavirus update

Has this appeared anywhere else? Surely it's not true?

If the article makes it plain that it is sponsored by or on partnership with the government I can't see a problem.

[the other bob wilson]

Re: Coronavirus update

There is at least one poster on here who thinks the virus has not really hit Wales that much - perhaps a look at the cases by local area figures here will change their minds;-

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/29/coronavirus-uk-map-the-latest-deaths-and-confirmed-cases-in-each-region

[Croesy Blue]

Re: Coronavirus update

If the article makes it plain that it is sponsored by or on partnership with the government I can't see a problem.

Can't see the problem with the government wasting millions on what equates to a party political broadcast during a global pandemic where 60,000 people in the country have died?

[Eric Cartman]

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If the article makes it plain that it is sponsored by or on partnership with the government I can't see a problem.

You don't think it is a problem that the gov is spending taxpayer money on what is essentially a propaganda piece?

[Eric Cartman]

Re: Coronavirus update

What is not clear about "Produced in partnership with the UK Government"?

I think it is just slightly less clear than sponsored by. One implies money has the changes hands and the other doesn't. I think I know which one the government would rather they wrote.