(not satire – it’s the Daily Telegraph!)
21-year-old graduate of History and Politics Jago Pearson – who wrote in the Daily Telegraph in support of Michael Gove’s assertion about left-wing thinking in universities and schools – forgot to mention in the article that he’s an executive of a Tory PR company.
Media Intelligence Partners is a Conservative PR company run by top Tory spin doctor and die-hard Thatcherite Nick Wood.
Here’s Jago Pearson posing as a History graduate just six months out of university in the Daily Telegraph article:
Left-wing thinking still prevails in schools
And here he is on MIPPR’s own page (click to enlarge):
Oh dear Jago (and Nick). Did you really think nobody would notice?
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Considering the amount of major spinning going on by the right-wing press at the moment, anybody could be forgiven for thinking they’re worried the Conservatives are in danger of losing the next election.
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Big thanks to @reddeviljp for the heads up on this.
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He does appear to be telling the truth about being a recent history (and politics) graduate, and to be fair he does mention it on his twitter bio. On the other hand, there doesn’t seem to be a way to get to any of that information directly from the article, short of googling it.
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He’s practising to be a politician, sorry I meant to type ‘lying arsehole’.
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That’s why the party pays him, to create a spin.
It’s just like air brushed celebrities and the cover up concerning the flogging off of the post office and the NHS.
If a tree falls and nobody is there to see it, does it make a sound?
Likewise, if you cut off the information channels by the fee press to the population and replace it with an organ of propaganda, does democracy have any purpose, if the government simply rule according to their corporate paymasters requests?
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True he does mention that he is a recent graduate in History & Politics but more concerning is he seems to imply the Light Brigade debacle was not a result of military incompetence by officers whose only requirement for command was the size of their wallet when purchasing their commissions.
As he professes to have studied the Crimean War I am sure he will be aware that the British C-in-C, Lord Raglan was a one-armed veteran of Waterloo who was ailing in both health & mind, so much so that he continually referred to the French (our allies in the Crimean campaign) as ‘the enemy’, that the commanders of the Heavy and Light Brigades were brothers-in-law who despised each other to the extent that both, but Cardigan in particular, took every opportunity to be uncooperative. With such men the British Army was taken to war and it is a fact that more deaths were caused by incompetence and neglect than by the enemy (the Russians that is and not the French).
Ditch the dewy eyed view of British history; it is that patriotic c**p that resulted in young men walking across no man’s land on the first day of the Somme into the face of heavy machine gun fire because they had been told by red-tabbed Generals that they would face no opposition and which resulted in 57000 casualties on the first day alone! My late grandfather was a company commander on the 1st July 1916 and out of the 200 plus men he led into action less than 80 remained unscathed by the end of the day. The memories of those young men and their wasted lives remained with him to his dying day. Hence my annoyance at this Government and in particular Gove harping on about a ‘just cause’ and using the centenary for political reasons.
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Reblogged this on Ned Hamson Second Line View of the News and commented:
Oh dear Jago (and Nick). Did you really think nobody would notice?
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The amount of major spinning going on by the right-wing press at the moment, anybody could be forgiven for thinking they’re worried the Conservatives are in danger of losing the next election.
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Reblogged this on kickingthecat.
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Reblogged this on Vox Political and commented:
Has anybody else found similar instances of Tory spin? Inquiring minds want to know!
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did they really think nobody was going to notice this.
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Why do people waste their time writing articles like this on wordpress, that nobody reads unless somebody gives them a link. The Tories use the national media like Sky News to spread their propaganda.
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so if you think that why do you bother posting here.
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Suzanne – this blog regularly gets tens of thousands of views – sometimes hundreds of thousands. That’s not nobody. Admittedly it might not compare to mainstream media in its reach but every little bit helps, don’t you think?
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im sure somebody in the msn will pick this up anyway.
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Read and loved Tom. Thank you. 🙂
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Reblogged this on Beastrabban’s Weblog.
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Every day I check in at Daily Telegraph HQ to find just how many ‘planted, ideological, corrupt, lying articles’ I can find. The whole paper is one mouthpiece for the rightwing junta that runs this country. This turd is no different. In fact I wouldn’t be surprised if by 9.0am he morph’d in Grunt Shitts!!
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Boz – ‘planted, ideological, corrupt, lying articles’
Isn’t exactly the same true of almost all newspapers and other media outlets, and has always been so? Both left and right wing media are the same. Those in power or who seek power will ALWAYS try to control the media. Get used to it, ignore the political railroading, and do your best to burrow through to the facts.
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You mention Sky news being used for Tory propaganda, In this high tech world that we live in , why is it impossible to buy a TV with BBC blocked. Could it be that we are financing our own brainwashing.
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It’s not as if his biased sentiments weren’t glaringly obvious in that article.
History teaching is left leaning, it’s not fair, wah wah, it should be right leaning to match my own personal, clearly privilaged outlook.
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theirs an advantage to letting spin doctors write propaganda pieces most of the time you don’t have to pay them
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There is. It’s called a computer monitor. It only displays what you choose it to display.
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Using child spin doctors is desperate enough.
Getting caught seeds more distrust in the likes of Gove than any spin to the contrary.
I’m glad he spun this nonsense defence – because he was rumbled.
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Thanks and yes but I don’t need to be told what to do. The media in this country is owned by just 3 people/orgs. The Independent is like a boys comic. The Guardian , apart from occasional insight, may as well have joined the coalition. The Telegraph is rancid. few read the Times. Sky is another government mouthpiece. BBC is well, Blue Peter in disguise, Channel 4 is Hitler row and ITV is well, ITV. It is all well explained by the Glasgow Media Group’s long standing work on the media and how it presents issues – in the knowledge there has to be a degree of compliance and acceptance – go read Gramsci too – he’ll help :0)
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a right still complain there being denied a voice.
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sorry that should read and the right still complain they are being denied a voice.
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Reblogged this on SyesWorldView and commented:
Every day the fraud and corruption is pushed into your face. A question to ask, what morals do these politicians portray and what does it mean to soceity as a whole?
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I see he describes his university as ranked in the top five He went to Loughborough, where he edited the student paper, The Epinal (see its self-satisfied Wiki page).
I can’t find any ranking that puts it beyond 14th in the UK, and it seems unlikely that its History department, ranked 245th in the world, does much better.
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Reblogged this on anemone of promise.
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Not that I am in support of Michael Gove or this Jago character but the article doesnt say he is still a student. It is a man writing about his experiences – “My time studying History at school and university was dominated by Left-wing thinking.”
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Downright dishonesty still prevails in the Nasty Tory Party.
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Boz – You originally forgot to mention checking any news outlets other than the Telegraph for political bias. No doubt that was just a simple error of omitting ALL the others, and not any evidence of bias on your part!
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