Category Archives: Newspaper Lies

MailOnline fakes Austrian snowstorm picture

January 11, 2012 – 12:21 am

MailOnline have an article on heavy snow in Austria, and have decided to claim that a photograph taken in a famously snowy region of Japan is actually of one of the locations in Austria that they describe in the article. Here is the photograph from the MailOnline homepage (note a pretty dire headline fail as [...]

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Daily Mirror falsely claim Liverpool fan ‘arrested on suspicion for racial abuse’

January 7, 2012 – 12:01 am

The Daily Mirror have reported that Liverpool FC have been ‘hit by new racism row‘ and more specifically that: a fan was arrested on suspicion of racially abusing Oldham player Tom Adeyemi… Eyewitnesses saw two fans wearing Luis Suarez t-shirts, and heard one of them clearly shout “You f***ing black b*****d.” Police immediately moved in [...]

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That’s just not cricket

January 2, 2012 – 11:11 am

Another year, another immigrant being allowed to stay in the UK for the flimsiest of reasons. Last year we had the person allowed to stay because he went to the gym and before that the famous Bolivian-student-allowed-to-stay-because-they-owned-a-cat. Of course, the important thing about both of those cases is that those were not the reasons at [...]

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Freedom for what? To kill young women?

November 19, 2011 – 11:42 am

As regular readers of this blog know, the Daily Mail believe that the vital importance of a free press is an excuse for anything they want to do. The confluence of reporting and commentary is so insidious and malevolent. Many newspapers are guilty but the Mail is the biggest culprit. For me, one of the [...]

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Here lies Winterval: 1998-2011?

November 8, 2011 – 8:55 pm

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 Mail [...]

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