Category Archives: Newspaper Lies

One minute, you’re relaxing on holiday…

October 30, 2011 – 1:07 pm

The next, someone contacts you to tell you that you’re in the Daily Mail and you soon realise that whilst you were out of the country someone had grabbed your life, twisted out of all recognition and published it to the world. Welcome to the story of Hayley Quinn who this happened to in October. [...]

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Do computer games leave children with ‘dementia’?

October 14, 2011 – 7:41 pm

Daily Mail headline: ‘Computer games leave children with ‘dementia’ warns top neurologist’. The first two paragraphs of the article: Children’s brains could be left damaged and they could suffer temporary ‘dementia’ by playing computer games, a leading scientist has warned. Eminent neurologist Baroness Susan Greenfield said yesterday that spending time online gaming and browsing internet [...]

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The lies keep on coming

October 5, 2011 – 11:07 pm

So, the old myth about the immigrant that avoided deportation thanks to owning a cat was mentioned by Theresa May in her conference speech. Theresa May was laughed at because this never actually happened and had been debunked at the time. So far, so simple. Even the Daily Mail reported on the story – conveniently [...]

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OK, enough, this has to stop

October 5, 2011 – 8:19 pm

The Daily Mail is still publishing stories about the BBC’s non-banning of AD/BC from ever more bizarre sources: The ‘journalist’ behind this article is Simon Caldwell and if he doesn’t realise that this story is a complete lie, then he must be one of the most incompetent journalists around, or one of the most morally [...]

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Theresa May’s Littlejohn moment

October 4, 2011 – 9:50 pm

So Theresa May repeated the 2009 myth that an immigrant was allowed to stay in the UK because they owned a cat. Worryingly, her speech had – according to Left Foot Forward – been checked by no less than David Cameron, Nick Clegg, George Osborne and Danny Alexander. Oh dear. For the record (in case you [...]

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