Daily Star no longer backing the English Defence League

The Daily Star's flirtation with the English Defence League is over. A Jewish Chronicle story, Star no longer shines on the EDL , quotes a spokesman for the paper as saying: "The Daily Star will clearly not be endorsing EDL in the future." On 9 February, the Star ran a splash and a sympathetic leading article, "Don't dare ignore the EDL" (which appears to have been removed from its website). As I reported at the time, the Star claimed that 98% of its readers supported the EDL's anti-Muslim agenda. The paper's owner, Richard Desmond , later said, via a spokesman, that he was unaware in advance of the Star's tacit endorsement for the EDL. It has since run a series of stories that are considered to place the EDL in a negative light. The Star's editor, Dawn Neesom , refused to tell the JC whether the new approach amounted to a deliberate shift in editorial stance Source: Jewish Chronicle