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Editor of the Daily Mail ignores the rules when you choose to pursue their ideological views in the best interest of your readers

was just a touch of irony in the air last week when Paul Dacre, the editor of the Daily Mail, mounted a spirited defense of the discredited Commission on the Press Complaints (CPC) in Leveson's appearance before the criminal investigation of newspaper phone hacking and other in the UK.

He said that self-regulation is "a country that is considered to be truly democratic, the only viable means of supervision of a truly free press."

Dacre is the president of the code of practice committee of writers, including the resulting code is overseen by the PCC. The first rule of the code is: "The press must take care not to publish inaccurate, misleading or distorted, including images."

However, the recent coverage of climate change and Mail Energy provides a clear demonstration of how a newspaper publisher that does not work, you can simply ignore the rules of the CCP when you choose to promote their ideological views in the best interest of its readers.

The Daily Mail has always struggled to cover climate change in a competent manner, particularly in its opinion columns have acted as a refuge for ideological reasons ridiculous explosions from the likes of Melanie Phillips who rebelled last month against "capricious man with fixing global warming, not the slightest scientific proof exists of renown."

But there has been a radical change in recent months against science journal in the field of climate change, through a plan allegedly sewn into a lunch between Dacre and Lord Lawson of Blaby, who chairs Global Warming Policy Foundation.

The main objective of the Daily Mail campaign was to convince readers that the increased cost of living is mainly due to policies to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide in the UK and other greenhouse gases. A key element of this campaign was to promote doubt about the scientific evidence of climate change.

Therefore, an editorial earlier this summer, said: "The e-mail invites ministers to do what we can to mitigate the corrosive effects of inflation, to stop his obsession the politically correct green energy tax ", before claiming that" the science of climate change remains shrouded in doubt "and concluded:" Ministers must abandon their dogma on global warming "

"This is the year when Britain first imported more gas than it produces. To be more dependent on imported gas prices made UK gas became increasingly influenced by world events, particularly those that affect the price of oil as gas prices often of European origin are linked to oil prices. "

course, the newspaper coverage of the results of Ofgem did not mention it all.

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