Manchester Evening News Does Enjoy Bias

Now the Manchester Evening News is a serviceable enough rag, but it's biases are sometimes amusing.

Not long back we had the Congestion Charge debate, and whilst it tried to look neutral in its reporting - editorial both for and against were given pretty much equal airing - it did on occasion let slip as to it's preference. For example, we had a large snowfall that made driving difficult, and indeed impossible in some areas, and one report trumpeted that a congestion charge would've solved all that - oblivious to the fact several bus services had to be cancelled, as well as disruptions to the train network. That gave me a bit of a laugh. Once I'd recovered from carting my shopping uphill for a few miles, through heavy snow that is.

It also highlighted a drinks promotion at the Tokyo Project earlier this year, thus ensuring a lot of the younger readers went to pay it a visit, then sent photographers to see the consequences - which it damn well knew beforehand - of all that free advertising. Gutter press journalism at its worst!

And yesterday Andrew Grimes, a pompous ass who wallows in verbiage and who thinks an intimate knowledge of a thesaurus equates to intelligence and wisdom, commented on the release of Megrahi being freed - and as usual with the MEN's article, readers could comment - alas in a show of Stalinist propaganda only comments condemning the release got through.

I highly recommend perusing it every now and then, the disparity between some of it's leaders and it's readership is entertaining as all hell, and you get see some journalism more appropriate to a Murdoch enterprise than one under the aegis of Guardian Media Group. But then, I suppose hypocrisy is par for the course for the Guardian and it's stable mates.