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Evening Standard using Muslim anger to sell newspapers in Walthamstow
In the West End on Friday Evening Standard billboards were leading on the Heather Mills divorce saga. In Walthamstow it was a different story. The fact that Jack Lefley's "Community leaders blame foreign policy for anger" article was only ~250 words long, and was buried on page 10 of the paper, didn't stop the Evening Standard using it as their main sales thrust in E17....

Read the full post - Published August 21, 2006 in Evening Standard, Media, Walthamstow

Do boys even take A-Levels these days?
Time for my annual A-Level joust with the British media. There was a shot across the bows last week, but over the last couple of days I've been keeping a watchful eye on the way the press portrays the results process. Across print and the web it was pretty much the same old, same old - lots of pictures of very successful girls, and not a hint that boys can achieve academic success. The Guardian, The Daily Telegraph, The Daily...

Read the full post - Published August 18, 2006 in Children and Teenagers, Evening Standard, Media

It must be nearly A-Level time again
As luck would have it I am back in the UK for one of my favourite British events of the year - the mainstream media A-Level results frenzy. Or as I've come to think of it - a load of journalists who haven't had to sit an academic exam for years denigrating the hard efforts of a load of children who are emotionally at the age where they are probably least equipped to deal with failure in front of their...

Read the full post - Published August 11, 2006 in Children and Teenagers, Evening Standard, Politics

Searching 'This Is London' from The Evening Standard
I've recently been doing a survey of how well search works, or doesn't, across a number of British newspaper web sites. I've already looked at a couple of News International Titles - The Times and The Sun - and one of Associated New Media's properties - The Daily Mail. Today I'm going to look at another Associated New Media site, This Is London, the online presence of the Evening Standard. Although the Evening Standard is not a national newspaper I...

Read the full post - Published June 30, 2006 in Evening Standard, Media, Product review, Search

Konnie Huq's briefs in the Daily Brief
Every day at the BBC subscribers can get an email called the 'Daily Brief'. It is a great little source of information, with a simple premise of providing a snapshot of useful information about the business to any area that is likely to have to be reactive. I get it because it is useful for the homepage team. It normally carries details of any known schedule changes from the major network, or details of which shows may be moved or...

Read the full post - Published December 7, 2005 in BBC, Evening Standard

The Evening Standard's Vanishing Booze Vote
For a long time one of the things that has really bugged me about living in London is England's archaic licensing laws, that mean that after watching a film on a Sunday night the missus and I can't retire to the pub next door to discuss the finer details of the plot over a pint, in case we are too hung-over to work in the munitions factory the next day. In fact I'd go as far as to say it...

Read the full post - Published November 24, 2005 in Evening Standard, Media, Voting

London Transport Fare Rises
Yesterday marked one of my annual blog rituals, when the Evening Standard spins the announcement of fare rises on London's transport system into a story of economic doom'n'gloom that even the pessimistic Daily Express would be envious of. (I'd apologise for repeating myself, but due to the great currybetdotnet server disaster of 2005 none of the earlier posts are currently online.) Today the Standard screamed: KEN'S HUGE FARE RISE Usually the trick on these occasions is to use the percentage...

Read the full post - Published October 5, 2005 in Evening Standard, Media, Transport

It's Not The Disability That Is The Problem, It's The Sex
The temporary statue of Alison Lapper in Trafalgar Square has generated plenty of comment, but this item in the Londoner's Diary in tonight's Evening Standard particularly caught my eye - "Monumental Row". It quotes David Whiting who felt his war-hero stepfather should be on display in the square as saying: I have nothing against Alison Lapper and certainly nothing against disabled people However he goes on to say: That a naked woman should be filling the empty plinth in Trafalgar...

Read the full post - Published September 19, 2005 in Evening Standard, Other

England Soccer World Cup Bid
Soccer World Cup Bid? Soccer??? Has the Evening Standard transformed itself into the local paper for London, Texas?...

Read the full post - Published September 16, 2005 in Evening Standard, Football, Media

"Citizen Journalist" Photo On The Standard's Front Page
I'm quick enough to criticise the Evening Standard when I disagree with it, but I thought for a bit of balance I ought to give praise when it is due. The Standard yesterday did a great job in getting Wasim Maqsood's photographs of an incident on the Central Line onto the front page so quickly. The article goes on to use Maqsood as the main source: Mr Maqsood, a photographer, who took pictures as the police arrived, said he had...

Read the full post - Published September 7, 2005 in Evening Standard, Media

Someone Gets Their Point Of View In Print

Published September 1, 2005 in BBC, Evening Standard, Media

Now In Our Time shows the BBC is "ignorant as well as biased"

Published June 22, 2005 in BBC, Evening Standard, Radio, Voting

Evening Standard Reconsiders Gipsy Camp Pun?

Published June 16, 2005 in Evening Standard, Media

Listening to iPods can make you deaf

Published May 11, 2005 in Apple, Evening Standard, The Independent

A warped sense of loyalty

Published March 10, 2005 in Evening Standard, Football, London Olympics, Olympics, Politics

The Queen's Speech announces the introduction of ID Cards from 2008

Published November 23, 2004 in Evening Standard, ID cards, Politics

The worst train stations in London

Published November 15, 2004 in Evening Standard, Transport, Walthamstow

"Boots plans new range of sex toys". Glass houses. Stones. Make up your own Evening Standard Punchline.

Published October 22, 2004 in BBC, Evening Standard

Congestion Charge expansion in West London

Published August 11, 2004 in Evening Standard, Transport

"Whitewash (Part Two)"

Published July 14, 2004 in Evening Standard, Politics

The reporting of Internet polls during elections

Published June 10, 2004 in BBC, Evening Standard, Politics, Voting, Web

Lazy Evening Standard Internet journalism (Number #36 in a seemingly never-ending series)

Published May 20, 2004 in Evening Standard, Music, Web

Another one bites the dust

Published May 15, 2004 in BBC, Daily Mirror, Evening Standard, Politics, The Sun

Congestion Charging Expansion consultation

Published April 16, 2004 in Evening Standard, Transport

The truth about Becks and her and The Evening Standard

Published April 14, 2004 in Evening Standard

A positive Internet story? Gmail cometh

Published April 1, 2004 in Evening Standard, Google

The London Standard, David Beckham and the Madrid Bomber

Published March 24, 2004 in Evening Standard, Football

Congestion Charging one year on: "The sky did not fall on London's head"

Published February 18, 2004 in Evening Standard, Transport

'New Fines War On Bus Lane Drivers' cries Evening Standard

Published January 13, 2004 in Evening Standard, Transport

Five Live Sporting Century vote in the Evening Standard

Published December 2, 2003 in BBC, Evening Standard, Radio, Voting

London Congestion Charge: "Thousands are fined by mistake" claims Evening Standard

Published February 24, 2003 in Evening Standard, Transport

Contact the Evening Standard about the London Congestion Charge

Published February 23, 2003 in Evening Standard, Transport

London Evening Standard reaction to Congestion Charging - a prediction

Published February 13, 2003 in Evening Standard, Transport