Category Archives: Christmas banned

Here lies Winterval: 1998-2011?

November 8, 2011 – 8:55 pm

Tweet So, after a lot of resistance – distorted, truth-bending resistance – the Daily Mail have published a correction after Melanie Phillips claimed that: Christmas has been renamed in various places ‘Winterval’. Tabloid Watch has charted the great effort the complainant – regular Tabloid Watch reader James – went to in order for the Daily [...]

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Dishonest journalism has serious consequences

October 11, 2011 – 8:35 pm

Tweet Yesterday I covered the Daily Telegraph rehashing a story that the Daily Mail had invented – and I had covered – last week. Basically, both the Daily Mail and the Daily Telegraph were claiming that Thomas the Tank Engine had abandoned Christmas in order to be ‘politically correct’. The current writers behind Thomas the [...]

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Daily Telegraph reheats Daily Mail rubbish

October 10, 2011 – 10:11 pm

Tweet Last week the Daily Mail claimed that Thomas the Tank Engine had got rid of Christmas in an attempt to be politically correct. The article did seem to contradict this claim by including the following two paragraphs near the end: Hit Entertainment, the company behind the DVD, said: ‘It was put out some time [...]

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Thomas the Tank Engine Bans Christmas!

October 2, 2011 – 9:58 am

Tweet Kind of, according to the Mail on Sunday Reporter: ‘Thomas the Tank Engine forced to carry ‘decorated tree’ for ‘winter holidays’ as Christmas is banned on Sodor‘. The article claims: Thomas the Tank Engine has been accused of joining the politically correct bandwagon after Christmas was written out of one of his adventures. The [...]

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