Mail on Sunday ‘knows little about Britain’s flag’
In April, the Mail on Sunday were bristling with patriotic rage over the company that was chosen to produce some of our Olympic flags: They said: It will be the iconic image of the 2012 London Olympics: the Union Jack soaring as British… Read more
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Do 275,000 Swiss people engage in zoophilia?
(This has been cross-posted from Notjarvis’s blog.) According to the Sun: Up to 275,000 Swiss people — out of a population of 8million — have sex with animals, a survey claimed last year. A similar claim was also made by the Daily Mail… Read more
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Another obvious ‘wonder cure’ from the Express
Once again, Richard Desmond’s downmarket Daily Mail rip-off, the Daily Express, has decided to jettison actual news from their front page, choosing to replace it with yet another “wonder cure”: The article, written by health correspondent Jo… Read more
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EU doesn’t ban kids from blowing up balloons
From the Daily Mail: The Daily Telegraph: And, following close-behind, the Daily Express: It’s every anti-EU newspaper’s wet dream! Except, as Antonia Mochan, former head of media for the European Commission’s London office,… Read more
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The impact of Steve Jobs
It is so often said that Steve Jobs was a visionary that this sentence is both muscle memory and cliché. Nevertheless, clichés are rooted in truth and Jobs’ legacy was never more apparent than when Apple’s market capitalisation made them the most… Read more
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Daily Mail uncovers the ‘truth’ about Catgate
What would you do if you were proved wrong? Recant and apologise? Or simply continue repeating the same untruth, hoping that no-one will notice your obvious stupidity? Well, as today’s front page testifies, the Daily Mail will do the latter and… Read more
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Sorry we called you an ‘HIV monster’
Here’s another complaint made against the Daily Mail which was resolved through the PCC: The National AIDS Trust and the Terrence Higgins Trust complained, on behalf of Nkosinati Mabanda, to the Press Complaints Commission that the assertion in… Read more
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Sorry if a ‘contrary impression’ was given
The following is a clarification and apology that was recently published on the Daily Mail website: An article on 24 June reported that Andy Coles, the former commander of submarine HMS Turbulent, had been accused by a fisherman’s son of the… Read more
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