Perhaps Marcus Rashford knew all along that this was how it might all play out. The “campaigning football star”, we were told, had taken out “mortgages from the Queen’s bank, Coutts, for all five properties”. The reality, of course, is that this is a convenient veneer of bullshit dreamed up by those who most benefit from bad journalism being allowed to flourish. And of course there’s plenty of bad journalism about, just as there is bad art, bad law, bad football, bad plumbing. The Mail on Sunday article isn’t bad journalism, in the sense that it’s brilliantly effective at conveying what it wants.

Source: The Irish Times November 17, 2020 09:32 UTC