I complained in relation to the reporting of COVID deaths in the Sun, falsely attributing ALL deaths to COVID when in fact it was *following ANY cause of death within 28 days of a positive test.Look at this thoroughly patronising response from a Jonathon Bell. “Thank you for your email.Just to clarify, are you able to tell us how many deaths are in fact due to Covid, rather than deaths which simply occurred following a positive Covid test? This will help us establish the extent to which it may be significantly misleading to describe the reported deaths as "Covid deaths" without any further explanation.We look forward to hearing from you and would appreciate your response within the next seven days“I do not regret complaining to the IPSO, because had I not done so, I would have presumed that the press in this country are generally kept in line. What is evidently clear by the disingenuously imbecilic email I received from them, is that they are no more than a logo, website and expensive suite of London offices: another quango. I see no credibility or justification in their use of the word ‘Independent’.I can see why corrections in newspapers are predominantly issued as a result of civil litigation for libel. What a bureaucratic waste of time; simply to be a plastic front for ‘standards’. It’s little more than a perception.
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