The Daily Telegraph
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Political stance
The Daily Telegraph has been politically conservative[11] in modern times. The personal links between the paper's editors and the leadership of the Conservative Party, also known as Tories, along with the paper's influence over Conservative activists, has resulted in the paper commonly being referred to, especially in Private Eye, as the Torygraph.[11] However, in its early years it was associated with Gladstone and the Liberal party, coining the nickname "the people's William".[citation needed]
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Satire
In addition to the "Daily Torygraph" (see above), Private Eye has also dubbed the paper the "Telavivograph"[citation needed], and "The Daily Hurleygraph" or "The Daily Tottygraph" for their frequent printing of the pictures of Liz Hurley and other notable attractive women, or as the "Maily Telegraph"[12] and "Daily Mailograph"[12] for the Eye's opinion that the newspaper sometimes focuses on issues traditionally seen as the preserve of the Daily Mail.
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Notable mistakes
The Daily Telegraph has erroneously published at least four premature obituaries:
- Cockie Hoogterp, the second wife of Baron Blixen, in 1938 after the Baron's third wife died in a car accident. Mrs. Hoogterp sent all her bills back marked "Deceased" and survived her premature obituary by over 50 years.[13]
- Dave Swarbrick in 1999, prompting much embarrassing publicity for the newspaper, and Swarbrick's remark "It's not the first time I have died in Coventry."
- Dorothy Southworth Ritter, the widow of Tex Ritter and mother of John Ritter, in August 2001. She eventually died in 2003, two months after her son's death.[14]
- Ballet dancer Katharine Sergava in 2003, which also caused The New York Times to print an erroneous obituary based on The Telegraph's.
On Wednesday, 24 February 1988, The Daily Telegraph was printed with the wrong date: Thursday 25 February was printed by mistake. This caused complaints from confused readers, but also inspired the first front page cartoon by Matt, who now has a cartoon on the front page of the Telegraph almost every day. The cartoon had the caption: "I hope I have a better Thursday than I did yesterday".
On Saturday, 26 August 2006, content from Claire Zulkey of MediaBistro Toolbox appeared on Melissa Whitworth's blog (MSN cache, original pulled off the site), leading to accusations of plagiarism. Whitworth later claimed that it had been published in error after she had forwarded the piece to her editor.
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See also
- Bill Deedes, former editor who wrote for the Telegraph for seventy years, up until the month of his death.
- Peter Simple, the pseudonym of Michael Wharton, who wrote a humorous column in the paper from 1957 to 2006.
- Auberon Waugh, a previous columnist
- Anthony Loyd, one-time war correspondent
- J. H. B. Peel, columnist
- Mark Steyn, former columnist
- Sunday Telegraph
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Notes and references
- ^ BBC NEWS | UK | The UK's 'other paper of record'
- ^ Newspaper Marketing Agency
- ^ Audit Bureau of Circulations Ltd These figures do not take into account the varying numbers of free copies of each paper given away at hotels, railway stations, and in airplanes.
- ^ MORI poll of 21,727 British adults, July-December 2004 - http://www.mori.com/polls/2004/voting-by-readership.shtml
- ^ Andrew Marr, My Trade, Pan 2006, p. 238
- ^ Press Gazette 18th Nov 2005 - ‘Hear all about it’ as the Telegraph launches podcast
- ^ http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2005/12/22/cntel22.xml
- ^ UK Association of Online Publishers (AOP) | News | Newspaper brands shine at AOP Awards
- ^ From ET to TD - Telegraph
- ^ IFRA XMA Cross Media Awards 2008
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- ^ a b "DAILY MAILOGRAPH LATEST" (15 May 2008). Private Eye 1209: 5.
- ^ Out in the noonday sun. - book reviews | National Review | Find Articles at BNET.com
- ^ Death is the story of their lives - USATODAY.com
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Further reading
- The House The Berrys Built by Duff Hart-Davis. Concerns the history of The Daily Telegraph' from its inception to 1986. Illustrated with references and illustrations of William Ewart Berry, 1st Viscount Camrose (later called Lord Camrose). [1]
- William Camrose: Giant of Fleet Street by his son Lord Hartwell. Illustrated biography with black and white photographic plates and includes an index. Concerns his links with The Daily Telegraph.[2]
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External links
- telegraph.co.uk
- Leaping into the future at the Telegraph's Camelot – from The Guardian
- The Guardian: The plight of Hollinger
- BBC: Telegraph empire in tycoons' grip – 18 Jan 2004
- 'Daily Telegraph "will not be the house organ of the Conservatives"' – from BBC News Online
- The continuing takeover saga – from BBC News 7 March 2004
- Chernobyl poem wins 2002 Daily Telegraph/ Arvon Prize
- Plunkett, John (21 November 2007). Telegraph 'told to spike Blunkett story'. MediaGuardian.co.uk. Guardian Unlimited.
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