Daily Mail
‘Celebrity-dominated’
There’s something on the Daily Mail website that you have to see. To find it, you must visit dailymail.co.uk and scroll down… Past the news that Britney Spears has become engaged with someone. Past the news that someone called Kylie Jenner,… Read more
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An end to the Winterval myth?
From the Daily Mail’s corrections and clarifications column: We stated in an article on 26 September that Christmas has been renamed in many places Winterval. Winterval was the collective name for a season of public events, both religious and… Read more
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Robbed of accuracy
From today’s Daily Mail corrections column: An article on 27 June reported that Miss Rachel Cowles, who believes she had nearly been abducted by Milly Dowler killer Levi Bellfield, had accused police of robbing her of justice. In fact Miss… Read more
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Is it news or rubbernecking that drives Mail Online?
Once again, the Mail Online homepage has been rearranged to promote an article about a horrific event which is, as ever, accompanied by a plethora of images: The article, which is attributed to the “Daily Mail Reporter”, includes no fewer… 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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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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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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