Daily Telegraph...

[laser_jock99]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/01/17/nmotors117.xml

...can't find out who to complain to yet at the Daily Telegraph about this sensationalist cr@p.When will they get it into their thick skulls that parking charges relate to EMMISSONS NOT TRANSMISSIONS!!!!!

If anyone can spot an e-mail address let us all know.

[sleeplessparadise]

You could always try their reader relations department on this mail addy readrel@telegraph.co.uk   or this is for the media office telegraph@blj.co.uk for a fuller list of contacts look at this page here but I cant find one that says complaints about useless journalism sorry :?

[Moneypit]

Or you could try this address which is for the letters page.

dtletters@telegraph.co.uk

[Pete]

Did any one notice the link to an article on parking fines on that page?
 
 Looks like yet another data base on who drives what, and where.
 They are chaseing un payed parking fimes, some of which are several years old.
 You buy a used motor, and one day, find that the local clampers have struck. £200 to get it released, if you claim that you didn't own it when the ticket was issued. Then it's up to you to prove it, to get the cash back from the robber barrons.  Could cost a few bob to get that proof, but that's your problem.

 Pete.

[Skibum346]

Complaint emailed as follows:

Sir/Madam,

I am writing to complain about your publications coverage of the recent decision to charge higher rates for parking to owners of band G vehicles. The article in question was found on your website at the following address:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/01/17/nmotors117.xml

The press release from Richmond council describes targeted vehicles as those in band G, yet your journalist seems to have translated this to be 4x4's. Now I don't know a lot about the banding of vehicles but what I do know is that it is not the 4x4 band. There are non 4x4 vehicles in band G, there are 4x4 vehicles in bands other than G. I can only surmise that the journalist involved in this piece of work has some kjind of hidden agenda.

I have seen situations where journalists are challenged on their lack of action in particular situations and they always argue they are there to be un-biased and to report the news not create the news. As far as I'm concerned, that's exactly what this journalist has done. It prompts me to ask some significant questions that I would like answers to:
Has the Daily Telegraph or it's editors instructed journalists to inject the term 4x4 in stories where possible?
If so, why?
If not, what was the purpose of this journalist injecting the term in a topic that does not affect all or only 4x4's?
Does the Daily Telegraph or it's editors belive that injecting the term 4x4 in stories where possible will improve it's circulation?
If so, how many other stories have been manipulated to improve profit?
Is journalism about balanced reporting?
If so, where are the positive stories about 4x4 drivers? (examples available, though it may be too much like hard work for your journalists)
You will have correctly surmised that I am an owner and driver of a 4x4. Whether you believe that owning and using a 4x4 is lawful and within my rights or that I am an eco terrorist who is killing our planet is immaterial. All I ask is that you report stories fully, factually and truthfully. I would be happy to read a piece that explains group G cars will be penalised, such as Mercedes C class estate, Toyota Previa, BMW 6 Series, SAAB 9-5, Vauxhall Astra and the Toyota Rav 4.

I await with interest your no doubt automated reply.

A disgruntled reader.

Frank McGoldrick


IF we all start bothering we will be noticed, if we don't, who do we have to blame?

Skibum

[Skibum346]

Copy sent to the letters page.

[Skibum346]

Just a further thought people, in my complaint I have asked for the positive stories, and stated examples are available, please help me out with details of as many as possible just in case they bother getting back to me.

I'll post this as a seperate thread as well.

Kindest

Skibum

[Range Rover Blues]

This is such eco warrior tree hugging hippy cack, a parked vehicle emits ZERO emissions, on that basis I'd be demending a full refund of the cost of my parking permit.

[Range Rover Blues]

I just noticed the link to another story, no hiding place from the clampers, well there is if you fit MASSIVE tyres :lol: