Today's post is from our founder Robin Daly challenging an article written about Yes to Life and Vitamin C. He shares the story of trying to hold the newspaper to account and gives us some the evidence as to why Vitamin C therapy is far from quackery.
Some of you may
have seen the article published by the Mail on Sunday, in print and online,
regarding Yes to Life and Vitamin C.
Despite giving Yes
to Life the opportunity, prior to publication, to respond to the ‘criticisms’ being
levelled at the charity - which we did in spades - when it came to publication,
the only nod to balanced reporting was
“YTL founder Robin Daly said: ‘The
only thing we do is to provide interested people with information.’”
The term that comes
to mind for this style of reporting is ‘hatchet job’.
We decided the
article was so biased we were not content to just let it go by, and so
approached IPSO, the regulator, with a view to getting some sort of redress. In
this we have had some degree of success, which is heartening:
