MPs expenses: Independent on Sunday

Here she goes... here she goes again!

Cath Levett rocks!

Smashing graphic in the Independent on Sunday at the weekend

Aggregating all of the news from the Telegraph from the past nine days (maths right me thinks)

But taking things further, where most print media would never dare go

This is great journalism

Modern

Fresh

Content based

It has a headline, and an intro, visual driven with text narrative. But its not a graphic

Crikey. New journalism!

Publish the news and raise hell!

Justice at last

Shahid Malik has stepped down as Justice Minister following the Telegraph's revelations over his expense claims

Since being elected in 2005, Malik has claimed the maximum amount allowable for a second home, amounting to £66,827 over three years

Bloody hell. And this from MPs, who launched the 'benefit fraud' campaign earlier this month

How ironic! Or moronic, however which way you see it

A single mother, claiming benefit, who irons clothes for undeclared cash is small beer compared to the 'second home' scams for which the UK tax payer, for years, has supplemented

It is a complete and utter outrage, as today The Council of Mortgage Lenders announce that 'Repossessions have risen by 50pc' year on year

But the MPs expenses stories are good for selling newspapers, and driving traffic online

Innovation in newspapers director, Juan Antonio Giner comments on his great blog:

It’s like a slow motion daily torture.

And if you subscribe to the Telegraph “alerts” you will the first to know about the next discovery.

Yesterday my local press agent in S[t]. Davids was calling to the Telegraph distribution center asking for extra copies.

Today I went around 11 am to buy the paper and I got the last copy.

So, the saga continues.

And the paper is a daily sold out.

The Telegraph is telling us a superb lesson in order to cope with any newspaper crisis:

Exclusive news and stories always sell.

And The Daily Telegraph has plenty of them.

Readers love them.

Not the crooks.

So again and again:

Publish the news and raise hell!

 

Right to reply

The plain truth

After publishing MPs claims for the past six days, the Telegraph offered MPs the 'right to reply' to allegations of ethical and moral abuse of the 'Additional Costs Allowance' system

Above is Daniel Kawczynski, Conservative MP for Shrewsbury and Atcham, speaking out for honest MPs who claim little

Only four MPs have exercised their right to reply at the Telegraph TV video booth, although all 646 MPs have been contacted

Which would indicate that they have something to hide, or out of embarrassment, little to say