{"id":38087,"date":"2018-04-25T09:00:28","date_gmt":"2018-04-25T07:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/?p=38087"},"modified":"2025-10-04T22:20:39","modified_gmt":"2025-10-04T21:20:39","slug":"times-forced-to-admit-we-printed-garbage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/mt.php\/2018\/04\/25\/times-forced-to-admit-we-printed-garbage","title":{"rendered":"Times forced to admit: we printed garbage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/images\/times-ipso-front-page.jpg\" title=\"Front page from today's Times\" alt=\"A front page from the Times newspaper, with the headline &quot;Ban on junk food deals as obesity drive unites MPs&quot; and a smaller story headlined &quot;Judge slams advisers to parents of Alfie Evans&quot;. A one-paragraph story about the IPSO judgement on the Muslim foster care story is at the bottom right of the page.\" style=\"float: right; border: 1px dotted; margin-left: 5px; margin-bottom: 5px\" \/>Last year, the <em>Times<\/em> carried a story that a young girl of Christian background had not been allowed to eat pork under her Muslim foster carers&#39; roof, on their front page. They also claimed that the mother of the family wore a &#39;burka&#39; and did not let her wear a cross on a chain, and that the girl cried when she had to return to the foster home and begged not to have to go there. Yesterday, the Independent Press Standards Organisation (Ipso) upheld a complaint by Tower Hamlets borough council against the Times on the grounds that it broke clause 1 (accuracy) of its code, and a reference is made on the front page (see the red rectangle in the attached image). (See earlier entries: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/mt.php\/2017\/08\/28\/muslim-foster-story-is-naked-hate\">[1]<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/mt.php\/2017\/08\/31\/so-it-was-all-a-lie\">[2]<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/mt.php\/2017\/09\/03\/why-did-they-lie\">[3]<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>Ipso have not mentioned the ruling either on its website or its Twitter feed; the ruling is published in full in the <em>Times<\/em> today. According to the <em>Press Gazette<\/em>, the story provoked 178 complaints to Ipso. Within a couple of days of the story being printed, a family court judgement was published which revealed that a number of the &#39;facts&#39; in the <em>Times<\/em>&#39; original story were false, including that the girl was a Christian (her family were in fact non-practising Muslims), that the foster family did not speak English (they did), that the girl&#39;s mother objected to the placement (she did not); there were so many inaccuracies and distortions. It is a good thing that Ipso, an industry-owned regulator that is as notorious as the PCC before it for being soft on newspapers that print inflammatory stories, has found this story beyond the pale.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update:<\/strong> IPSO have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ipso.co.uk\/rulings-and-resolution-statements\/ruling\/?id=20480-17\">published the ruling<\/a> on their website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year, the Times carried a story that a young girl of Christian background had not been allowed to eat pork under her Muslim foster carers&#39; roof, on their front page. 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