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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....

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

"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...

Someone Gets Their Point Of View In Print

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

Evening Standard Reconsiders Gipsy Camp Pun?

Listening to iPods can make you deaf

A warped sense of loyalty

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

The worst train stations in London

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

Congestion Charge expansion in West London

"Whitewash (Part Two)"

The reporting of Internet polls during elections

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

Another one bites the dust

Congestion Charging Expansion consultation

The truth about Becks and her and The Evening Standard

A positive Internet story? Gmail cometh

The London Standard, David Beckham and the Madrid Bomber

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

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

Five Live Sporting Century vote in the Evening Standard

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

Contact the Evening Standard about the London Congestion Charge

London Evening Standard reaction to Congestion Charging - a prediction

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