Bias at the Telegraph. See, it's that Andrew Marr- he must have spread the lurgi. Seriously though, I've been anxious about the Telegraph for a long while. I anticipate a certain kind of partisanship, which is still visible in spades on occasions- but the partisanship used to be modest yet consistent. Now the Telegraph swings wildly about, with moods ranging from Daily Mailesque to Touchy-Indy. Sarah Sands , Deputy Editor, today gave an interesting insight into the the DT's current shallow waters:

'The audience of Friday’s Any Questions applauded the panel member who accused the media of whipping up anti-Muslim feeling. Earlier, I had looked at a photograph of Muslims burning the Union flag. It was striking and horrible. But these were 20 people performing for the television cameras among a peaceful crowd of 2,000. I decided against using it on the front page of Saturday’s paper. The News International papers did; the Sun’s headline was “Hate Britain“. The media can sometimes be accurate without being wholly truthful.'

Yes; and sometimes they can be inaccurate and untruthful. While Sands commends her newspaper for political correctness, Michael Morris has these observations from The American Thinker, reflecting on yesterday's reporting of the bomb which hit the wall of a Mosque compound in Fallujah:

'The supposed bombing of the al-Kubaysi Mosque in Fallujah has been misreported with unabashed vigor....The London Times and the Daily Telegraph have also hopped onto the bandwagon of unadulterated media slime...The Thursday morning Daily Telegraph print headline for the same story was:“US aircraft in deadly attack on mosque”. Good going guys: let’s see how many suicide bombers you can activate with your misleading headline.'

Seems like Ms Sands hadn't got her thinking cap on over that one, or something. (btw, in case you wondered, the BBC is not mentioned favourably in despatches by Morris either- read the whole thing).